Job overview
Opportunity for a secondment post to cover maternity leave of the below post from October 2025 for 12 months
This post is an exciting opportunity for an experienced CAMHS Practitioner to join Tameside and Glossop CAMHS Single Point of Access Team (SPOA) and support the development of the CYPMH offer into our local communities. You will work in partnership with early help services and our local multi-agency safeguarding hubs to ensure that our referral pathways are accessible, delivered in true partnership and ensure children ,young people and families that need mental health advice and support can get what they need quickly and easily.
You will also lead and manage an established community based workforce, ensuring that they support the implementation of the Thrive model of care for Children's and Young Peoples Mental Health (CYPMH). You will help ensure that CAMHS Getting More Help and Getting Risk support offers are developed and that those CYP that need help and treatment from CAMHS access it smoothly and at the earliest opportunity.
Main duties of the job
You will act as the first point of contact for professionals making a referral into Tameside and Glossops Single Point of Access.
Screening referrals and signposting to the wealth of internal and external service providers for children and young peoples mental health across the Borough.
You will be responsible for the coordination and allocation of consultations to Locality Mental Health Practitioner (LMHPs) ensuring a service is provided to professionals in a timely manner enabling young people to receive the right support, at the right time, from the right practitioners.
Provide management and clinical supervision to the LMHPs within the service.
Be instrumental in identifying gaps in service provision enabling these to be escalated to allow for service and system future planning across the borough.
Attend panel meetings for various cohorts of young people with specific vulnerabilities such as youth offending service, cared for children panel etc.
Work alongside colleagues in Social Care, Health, Education and the Police to ensure smooth transition and coordination of care for young people with an identified mental health need in the borough.
Working for our organisation
Children’s mental health and emotional well-being is a key priority locally and Tameside and Glossop benefits from strong multi-agency networks and creative approaches to service delivery.
We offer a robust supervision structure and development opportunities in terms of psychological therapies training within the trust and opportunities to access specialist training in line with your own and the team’s needs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Your days will be varied and your work will be completed largely within our SPOA service. This role will have high impact locally and in order to be successful you will need:
* Strong CYP mental health knowledge and experience.
* Experience of using training, supervision and consultation as a means of helping other professionals to support the mental health of CYP.
* Good understanding and commitment to the CAMHS transformation agenda
* Experience of leading others in ways that inspire innovation and excellence.
* Values that match our own and always place CYP and families at the fore of all your practice
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details and contact us if you require any further information or wish to discuss the post further
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse – Mental Health with NMC registration/Social worker with SW registration
* Short courses and/or experience to post graduate diploma level
Experience
Essential criteria
* Highly Developed Knowledge of mental health issues in young people
* Knowledge of relevant legislation and National Policies in relation to children and young people.
* Highly developed knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
* Evidence of Post qualifying training courses / certificates
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
* Ability to develop packages of care based on assessed needs
* Ability to develop a range of therapeutic activities across a range of settings.
* Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
* Ability to provide and receive complex sensitive or contentious information often within a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive atmosphere
* Ability to act in consultation / supervision / training capacity with professionals
* Ability to develop liaison / links and familiarity with other professional networks
* Ability to prioritise key tasks, and targets for intervention.
* Ability to evaluate service initiatives for effectiveness / outcome
* Ability to work as a member of a team within and beyond organisational boundaries
* Ability to keep accurate activity data for audit / evaluation.
* Ability to develop and audit the effectiveness of protocols.
* Ability to manage other staff to meet targets and objectives of the service
* Ability to implement HR procedures as appropriate
* Ability to use systems approach.
* Ability to provide leadership for the service
* Ability to manage and to work autonomously with case load.
* Ability to work flexibly and innovatively.
* Good communication skills
* Ability to operate with an unpredictable work pattern
* Ability to work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic / aggressive
We also offer virtual application support sessions each month, where you will learn some hints and tips to support you in completing your application form. To secure your place, and to find out more visit the on our website.
Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the
What happens after your application has been received?
You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.
What happens if I am offered the position after interview?
The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.
What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?
By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to. The checks are:
* Identity verification
* Right to work check
* Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
* Professional registration and/or qualification check
* Occupational health assessment
* Employment history and reference validation
All applicants external to the NHS will be required to provide their to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.
If you are offered a position with us and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with. If the role you have been offered is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence own your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.
What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?
Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.
Other important information
* We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
* If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
* If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
* Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
* We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.
We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.
If you have problems applying, contact
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Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
225 Old Street
225 Old Street
OL6 7SR
Telephone
01617163181