Clinical Psychologist Infant Mental Health

☞ Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Sale North West

Category: Health / Medical Care

Industry: Hospitals Health Care

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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  • To contribute to the systematic provision of a high quality specialist clinical psychology service to the infants and children under 5 years and their families as part of Trafford’s Early Attachment Service
  • To carry a caseload of infants, children and their families for the purpose of the assessment and treatment of children presenting with a range of emotional, attachment and behavioural difficulties.
  • To advice parents and other professionals working with infants and children under 5 years about the needs of young people in their care.
  • To supervise and support others in the EAS umbrella service, including as needed any psychology assistants and trainees, in the provision of good quality assessments and treatment.
  • To work autonomously within professional guidelines and exercise responsibility for the systematic governance of psychology practice within clinical practice.
  • To utilise research skills for audit and research in agreement with lead psychologists within the service.
  • Delivery of service provision within the parameters of child and adolescent mental health, in a multi-agency context.
  • To provide specialist assessments of children and adolescents referred to the service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of data from a variety of sources including psychological tests, self-report measures, direct and indirect observation and interviews with clients, family members and/or carers.
  • To formulate and implement plans for therapeutic intervention or management based on an appropriate conceptual framework, working in home, social services, community, hospital and educational settings where appropriate. Communication of this to the referrer and other relevant professionals.
  • To provide psychological training, advice and consultation to staff from health and other agencies in areas relevant to direct clinical work and to clinical service provision.
  • To exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients whose problems are managed by psychologically based care plans.
  • To manage cases under the supervision of an experienced Child and Adolescent Psychologists and to utilise case management skills.
  • To contribute a specialist psychological perspective to case planning and multi-agency case conferences and reviews and call multi-professional meetings when appropriate.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.4bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating the most exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 28,000 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’re proud to be one of the major academic research centres and education providers in England and Research and Innovation is the heart of all we do, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re also excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable and tackling climate change.

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.

Join us and you’ll work with some of the best people in the NHS, thriving in a Trust united in its values, purpose and commitment to our patients and a drive for continual innovation and improvement.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Catherine Tighe Job title: Principal Clinical Psychologist, TIPS Email address: c.tighe@nhs.net Telephone number: 07779 556737

Trafford Infant Parent Service

Trafford CAMHS

0161 549 6456
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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