Job summary
We have an opportunity for you to join the Greater Manchester Assessment and In-reach Team or GMAIC, as it's often referred to. This is newly created post in a team manager role.

Working closely with the Clinical staff, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring high-quality, patient-centred care, supporting individuals with complex mental health needs in the community.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by driving service excellence, fostering strong partnerships, and supporting a multidisciplinary team to deliver outstanding outcomes.

You will be enthusiastic, demonstrate a proactive approach to their work, engage in learning and development and be passionate about working within crisis care. The assessment centre is committed to supporting the successful individual within a robust development framework and will offer appropriate support and regular supervision.

GMAIC's role is to offer gatekeeping assessments, bed management and case management to any CYP, who may require a Tier 4 Inpatient admission. We work in collaboration with our NHS inpatient providers, for any Tier 4 referral/request for an Inpatient admission.

Main duties of the job
You will have the opportunity to make profound improvements in how crisis care is experienced by young people and those who care for them.

You will be working closely with our inpatient colleagues and have responsibility of managing the Single Point of Access for all Inpatient referrals for the GM population of 13-18 year old young people who are being considered for inpatient care.

You will also have the opportunity to work closely with external services such as social care, CAMHS, FCAMHS, CMHT, CEDS, EIT, HTT to ensure the correct pathways are in place, to support our CYP's discharge from hospital.

We have seen already how we have positively impacted in ensuring that our young people are being supported within local services, and with the help of our colleagues within the Crisis Pathway reducing the dependency on inpatient care, meaning young people are getting supported at home, in a timely manner.

As a member of the Greater Manchester Assessment and Inreach Centre you will be at the heart of a well-funded, well organised, hugely valued work-stream.

About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

Date posted: 13 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 311-HYM798-26-A
Job locations: Horton House, Southlink Business Park, Hamilton Street, Oldham, OL4 1DE, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications
Essential

• Professionally registered qualification with current registration with NMC, Social Work England or HCPC Educated to degree level or equivalent

Desirable

• Completion of Preparation for Mentorship / Practice Teacher / Fieldwork Educator qualification.
• Management or leadership qualification, or training for supervision and staff development.

Experience
Essential

• Substantial experience of working within a health delivered child and adolescent mental health service or adult mental health services
• Experience in the provision of clinical and line management supervision and annual appraisal

Knowledge
Essential

• Highly developed knowledge of mental health issues in children and 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
• Working knowledge of NICE guidance in the treatment of mental health problems for children and young people
• Knowledge of risk management issues

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of working with young people with learning disability
• Evidence of Post qualifying training courses/ certificates

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Evidence of the ability to lead, motivate and manage a group
• Ability to manage own emotions and deal with others in highly charged situations
• Experience of governance processes, including responding to complaints and completing investigations following incidents.
• Ability to manage the performance of staff in a consistent and sensitive manner.
• Ability to produce written reports that are clear, unambiguous and produced with agreed timescales.
• Ability to perform complex 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 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 work in situations that are often highly emotionally charged and were individuals may be antagonistic/ aggressive.

Work Related Circumstances
Essential

• Use of a car or access to a means of mobility to travel across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
• Ability to work flexibly if indicated by service need
• Willing to carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with the Trust's Equal Opportunities and Equality and Diversity policies
• Appointments to regulated and controlled activities require an enhanced DBS disclosure.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
CAMHS Operational Manager
Abigail Ribchester
a.ribchester@nhs.net
01617161331