Overview
We are looking for a highly skilled, compassionate, experienced consultant clinical psychologist to join Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, across Specialist CAMHS services to lead the design and delivery of the trust-wide Cared For Children & Care Leavers (CFCL) offer across the CAMHS care hub. The successful candidate will clinically lead the therapeutic offer for CFCL across the Pennine Care footprint, ensuring consistency in approach and reducing variation across our five boroughs. A key role is to support whole system transformation and lead programmes of change to deliver the principles of “Future in Mind” and iThrive recommendations across the Pennine Care footprint for Cared For Children.
This is an exciting new role to develop an enhanced offer across the Pennine Care footprint for children and young people who are cared for by GM Local Authorities placed within our 5 Trust boroughs. You will lead highly skilled, passionate colleagues in enhancing existing services and linking with partners across our services to work collaboratively to support children, young people and their families. Please refer to the job description for further information about role and key responsibilities.
Responsibilities
* Clinically lead the therapeutic offer for Cared For Children & Care Leavers (CFCL) across the CAMHS care hub to ensure consistency and reduce variation across five boroughs.
* Lead design and delivery of the trust-wide CFCL offer and support whole-system transformation.
* Drive programmes of change that deliver the principles of “Future in Mind” and iThrive recommendations within the Pennine Care footprint.
* Develop an enhanced offer for children and young people cared for by GM Local Authorities placed within the five Trust boroughs.
* Lead, support and collaborate with highly skilled colleagues, partners and stakeholders to improve services, outcomes and experiences for children, young people and families.
* Engage with management, clinical teams, project leads, senior management and network directors to support cared for children across CAMHS Care Hub.
Requirements
* Clinical Psychologist with experience in CAMHS and leadership roles.
* Track record of leading psychological services, design and delivery of therapeutic offers, and system-wide transformation.
* Commitment to staff well-being, compassionate leadership, equality, diversity and inclusion, and anti-racist and transgender/non-binary inclusion.
* Ability to work collaboratively with partners across services and local authorities to support cared for children and care leavers.
* Willingness to engage with job description and personal specification for further information on role and key responsibilities.
Values and How We Work
We are passionate about staff well-being and compassionate leadership in the CAMHS Care Hub. We support staff to work flexibly and recognise the roles our colleagues hold outside of their working hours. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the top of our agenda. We believe a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture is vital; everyone’s value should be recognised and respected. We proactively challenge injustices and are the only Trust in the North West to publicly recognise our commitment to becoming anti-racist and supporting our transgender and non-binary colleagues. We also have thriving staff networks to ensure everyone has a voice. We are committed to staff development and have an extensive psychological therapies training programme. Our vision, purpose and values are described in the original content and emphasise kindness, fairness, ingenuity and determination, with ambitions to provide outstanding care, a great place to work, and an ethos of Listen to improve.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025.
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