Non-Medical Prescriber/ Senior Practitioner - Child and Adolescent

North Manchester CAMHS are looking for passionate, skilled, and ambitious CAMHS practitioners who have extensive clinical experience and are qualified as, or in the process of qualifying as a Non Medical Prescriber. The service provides specialist neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people as well as treatment and support via our medication pathway.

As an NMP and neurodevelopmental practitioner, you will need to be experienced working with children and young people who have a diagnosis or are being assessed for neurodevelopmental conditions. You will contribute to the post-diagnostic support needed and offer signposting, consultation, and training as appropriate.

The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary CAMHS Team in North Manchester and work alongside a wide range of colleagues from nursing, occupational therapy, social work, and psychology. They will be joining a warm, dynamic, and hardworking team that looks after each other and has a range of excellent skills, knowledge, and experience to share with you.

Dependent upon experience and interests, the post holder will be supported to develop a job plan that will allow for the development of prescribing skills alongside ADHD assessments, formulation building, and therapeutic interventions. We offer excellent training opportunities and regular supervision.

• You will offer prescribing clinics, involving initiation and titration dependent upon qualifications and experience alongside colleagues in the multidisciplinary team.
• You will be responsible for delivering evidence-based medication interventions in line with national guidance and care pathways.
• You will offer assessment for complex mental health needs and levels of risk, including safeguarding and self-harm.
• You will manage your own caseload, providing a range of high-quality care appropriate to the child or young person's needs, which will include mental state assessment, risk assessment and management, family and social assessment, consultation, and interventions.
• You must be confident and experienced in communication, due to the high level of liaison needed between CAMHS and other services and be willing to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of the young people.
• You will provide intervention for children, young people, and their families.
• You will offer consultation for schools and partner agencies.

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.

• Registered Nursing: RMN/RSCN/RNMH
• Independent and Supplementary Non-Medical Prescribing
• Relevant post graduate qualification or training in area relevant to service delivery
• Qualifications in Psychological Therapies to Diploma or Masters level e.g. CBT / SFT/ IPT
• Mentorship course ENB998 or equivalent
• Leadership Qualification

• Proven experience of working effectively with children and young people with neurodevelopmental conditions and additional mental health difficulties providing both assessment and intervention
• Substantial experience of working effectively with people with mental health difficulties, including experience of delivering specialist skills in at least one therapeutic modality
• Extensive experience of case management, including experience of assessing and managing risk, including safeguarding
• Experience of liaison and working with a range of other relevant agencies and professionals
• Experience of mentoring and supervision of others
• Experience of working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• Evidence of project management experience
• Delivery of training and consultation

• Ability to carry out and monitor effective ADHD assessments, treatments, and therapies including understanding of potential unwanted side effects from medication
• Ability to perform complex diagnostic assessments as an autonomous practitioner across a range of mental health conditions
• Ability to identify and manage risk in individuals presenting with mental health needs
• Highly developed knowledge of evidence-based practice across a range of therapeutic interventions with this client group
• Able to foster partnerships and working relationships with other professional networks
• To have the ability to manage own caseload and act as lead practitioner
• Able to demonstrate an understanding, acceptance of, and commitment to the principles underlying equal opportunities, treating every person with respect
• Delivery of group work and workshops
• Experience of audit and research

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.