CAMHS Jobs

We have evolved the acute care pathway for children experiencing a crisis in their mental health. If a young person experiences a crisis we can respond in the right way, at the right time and with the right support.

That could mean keeping young people out of hospital and caring for them in the community, so they experience the least amount of disruption to their lives and the lives of their families; or if a young person is admitted to hospital we support them to be discharged in the safest and quickest way possible with the right resources in place in the community to prevent re-admission.

It is made up of diverse teams offering different aspects of care and treatment. From our children and young people community crisis services which includes rapid response and home treatment and paediatric assessment pathways; through to our Greater Manchester assessment and inreach centre; to our specialist services, inpatient CAMHS and community eating disorder teams.

When you join our acute care pathway services, we have many great training opportunities to continue to develop your career, including:

• AMBIT (adaptive mentalization-based integrative treatment)
• Social work and nurse apprenticeship
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and DBT skills workshops
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for eating disorders
• Mentalisation based therapy
• Interpersonal therapy
• STORM skills training (suicide prevention and self-harm mitigation)
• Family intervention training
• Improving access to psychological therapies skills-based training

Our services are designed to work flexibly around the needs of young people but also flexibility around you. This means there are opportunities to work across the pathway, helping you get a range of experience across different teams.

Who we are and what we do

The children and young people's crisis service is a multi-disciplinary team of mental health professionals providing an assertive outreach model to support children and young people up to the age of 18, in a mental health crisis. Formally operating under the remit of rapid response team, home intensive treatment team and enhanced rapid response team that have been amalgamated to form the new crisis service.

The primary aim is to provide an assertive outreach model, including emotional and mental health crisis assessment and intervention to young people presenting in mental health crisis. This is to avoid an admission to a paediatric or inpatient mental health service, or to help with the transition home following discharge from an inpatient service.

The children and young people's crisis service will offer three distinct pathways as below:

The rapid response pathway offers up to 72 hours of intensive crisis support in the community. Aiming to respond within 4 hours of referral, young people are supported to create immediate safety plans to reduce distress and avoid the need for attendance at A&E/expedite discharge from an acute setting.

The home treatment pathway offers 4-6 weeks of support in the community in order to avoid an admission to mental health inpatients or to help with the transition home following discharge from mental health inpatients.

The paediatric support pathway will provide mental health assessments to young people who have been admitted to paediatric wards, freeing up capacity in community CAMHS and ensuring young people can return home as soon as possible.

Jobs in our crisis service

Our Greater Manchester assessment and inreach centre provides a central point for assessing whether a young person requires inpatient mental health care. The assessments ensure all other options of support within a community setting have been considered.

In addition to direct face to face assessments, we also liaise with partner agencies to ensure that we understand a young person’s circumstances and to promote a multi-agency approach to meeting a young person’s needs. If a young person is admitted, we continue to support the system and professionals involved in the young person's care, so they are discharged from hospital in a timely manner and ongoing support is in place.

Greater Manchester assessment and inreach centre also provide consultation to professionals within community mental health services, prior to the consideration of admission to hospital. This may be helpful when, despite efforts and interventions in the community, a young person’s risk increases or their mental health continues to deteriorate. A consultation will likely involve case-based discussions and considerations of additional support options/ interventions and the suitability of a referral for a full gatekeeping assessment. On occasion this may take place as part of a multi-agency professionals meeting.

Jobs in our Greater Manchester Assessment Centre

Hope and Horizon Units are our child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) in-patient facilities, situated within Fairfield Hospital in Bury.  We provide treatment and support to young people, aged between 13 and 18 years old, from anywhere in the UK, suffering from a range of mental health difficulties.  Both units are led by an expert team of healthcare professionals comprising psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, dieticians and teachers.

The units have been designed with these young people in mind and have been extensively refurbished to ensure that they are of the highest standard, so young people receive expert care and treatment in a safe, therapeutic environment.

Jobs on Hope and Horizon inpatient ward

Our community eating disorders service provides care and support to children and young people with an eating disorder. We also offer advice and support to families, carers, and those who work with, or support, a child or young person.

Our service is based at two hubs:

Jobs in our community eating disorder service (CEDS)

If you don't see a role for you, do check back regularly or register for a jobs account where you can set up email job alerts, and we can keep you posted when new jobs are advertised. Why not stay connected and follow Pennine Care Jobs on facebook and X (formally twitter) or Pennine Care CAMHS.

If you don't see a role for you, do check back regularly or register for a jobs account where you can set up job alerts by email, and we can keep you posted when new jobs are advertised or follow Pennine Care Jobs on facebook and X (Twitter). 

Mental health support teams (MHST) have been created to offer early intervention, low intensity, mental health support within schools and colleges for children and young people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties. They will also support the mental health lead in each education setting to introduce and develop their 'whole school approach'. Our mental health support teams can be found in schools and colleges across Bury, Oldham, Heywood, middleton, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside. 

Interested in what a week in the life of a education mental health practitioner (EMHP) looks like? Take a look at the video below. 

Current jobs within our mental health support teams

Bury Mental health suppport team 

Oldham mental health support team

Tameside mental health support team

Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) - Applications close 31st March 

Rochdale mental health support team

Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP) - Applications close 20th March 

Stockport mental health support team

Education mental health practitioner - Applications close 31st March 

How to become an education mental health practitioner

To become a education mental health practitioner or EMHP as it's more commonly known, you will need to complete a 1 year training programme where you'll learn the role and you'll be taught how to make a difference working with children and young people.  To enrol on to that training programme, you will need to apply for the Trainee education mental health practitioner role when it is advertised. We generally have two cohorts of EMHPs each year - January and September. 

As a trainee education mental health practitioners (EMHP) you'll be paid at Band 4 £26,530 to £29,114 for the duration of your training period. 

On successful completion of your year training programme, you'll be eligible to apply for registration as an EMHP/wellbeing practitioner with BPS or BABCP. It is a mandatory requirement for you to be registered to practice as an EMHP within an NHS commissioned service. 

Education mental health practitioners are paid at Band 5 £29,970 to £36,483 per annum pro rata. 

We will be hosting recruitment webinars prior to opening applications so that you can find out about the programme! Follow our Pennine Care jobs social media pages so that you don't miss out. 

We want our mental health support teams to be reflective of the communities that they serve. We recognise that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our mental health support teams. We encourage applications from men, black and minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities.

If you don't see a role for you, do check back regularly or register for a jobs account where you can set up job alerts, and we can keep you posted when new jobs are advertised or follow Pennine Care Jobs on facebook and X (Twitter). 

If you don't see a role for you, do check back regularly or register for a jobs account where you can set up job alerts, and we can keep you posted when new jobs are advertised or follow Pennine Care Jobs on facebook and X (Twitter).