Clinical Psychologist/Mental Health Practitioner Early Years
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum (Pro Rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Sale, Trafford, M33 7ZF |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7132623/349-MCH-7132623-RL4 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Job overview
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological service for young children and their families under the CAMHS umbrella in Trafford. The community service offer includes group work, individual psychological assessment and intervention; and advice, consultation & training to support the psychological knowledge of the multi agency network around infants, young children and parents.
The service consists of a team with clinical psychology, child psychotherapy and health visiting backgrounds. We work as part of the current under 5s CAMHS provision in Trafford, within the integrated Infant mental health pathway and the Best Beginnings work across the borough. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who is able to join the team to work effectively and autonomously within this multi-agency context offering both clinical work, training and consultation.
Main duties of the job
Are you a Clinical Psychologist or Mental Health Practitioner passionate about working with parents and their children up to the age of 5? Are you interested in working to raise the profile of the most important early relationship, in a forward looking service, alongside local colleagues and partners working with young children and parents? If you are enthusiastic about helping this important client group, at a time of national developments for parents and children, then this post will be an excellent opportunity for you.
You will have experience of working with young children and their families who present with a range of relationship and social / emotional development needs and risk. It will be necessary to have skills and experience in supporting children and their parents in the early years to develop good attachment relationships.
You will autonomously manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the infant, young child and parent’s needs; within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework. You must be confident and experienced in communication, supervision and consultation.
This post is a clinical post and includes supervision, training and offering consultation to other workers contributing and working with a multi-agency team.
For further information please contact Dr. Catherine Tighe - Clinical Lead of Trafford Infant Parent Service on 07779 556737
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025
Job overview
The post holder will provide a specialist psychological service for young children and their families under the CAMHS umbrella in Trafford. The community service offer includes group work, individual psychological assessment and intervention; and advice, consultation & training to support the psychological knowledge of the multi agency network around infants, young children and parents.
The service consists of a team with clinical psychology, child psychotherapy and health visiting backgrounds. We work as part of the current under 5s CAMHS provision in Trafford, within the integrated Infant mental health pathway and the Best Beginnings work across the borough. We are looking for a Clinical Psychologist who is able to join the team to work effectively and autonomously within this multi-agency context offering both clinical work, training and consultation.
Main duties of the job
Are you a Clinical Psychologist or Mental Health Practitioner passionate about working with parents and their children up to the age of 5? Are you interested in working to raise the profile of the most important early relationship, in a forward looking service, alongside local colleagues and partners working with young children and parents? If you are enthusiastic about helping this important client group, at a time of national developments for parents and children, then this post will be an excellent opportunity for you.
You will have experience of working with young children and their families who present with a range of relationship and social / emotional development needs and risk. It will be necessary to have skills and experience in supporting children and their parents in the early years to develop good attachment relationships.
You will autonomously manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the infant, young child and parent’s needs; within professional practice guidelines and a structured supervision framework. You must be confident and experienced in communication, supervision and consultation.
This post is a clinical post and includes supervision, training and offering consultation to other workers contributing and working with a multi-agency team.
For further information please contact Dr. Catherine Tighe - Clinical Lead of Trafford Infant Parent Service on 07779 556737
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Jun 2025
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