Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Careers

A career in children and young people’s mental health services (CAMHS) opens the door to so many opportunities. We are a Greater Manchester NHS service that assesses and treats young people with emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties. We support children and yond people with depression, problems with food, self-harm, abuse, violence or anger, bipolar, schizophrenia and anxiety. Whether you’re just starting out or ready for your next move, we have lots of great opportunities available to all Health and Social Care professionals wanting a career in this exciting area.

Whilst seen as a challenging and specialist service, the work is extremely rewarding on a professional level, with lots of opportunities to build confidence and skill in a wide and diverse portfolio including;

• Inpatient Acute Care
• Forensic Inpatients
• Forensic Assessment
• Community Early Intervention
• Home Intensive Treatment
• Attachment Family Work
• Intensive LD
• Children in Care Specialist Provision

"Having the responsibility to help to shape and change someone’s life course from a young age is a privilege, seeing health and wellness unfold, to strengthen resilience provides much joy and professional fulfilment. 

The investment over the last ten years into child and adolescent mental health services has enabled better professional opportunity for growth and development; from what was a job into a vocational career, there has never been a healthier time to experience such opportunity leading to professional accomplishment!" — Amanda, Head of Operations

Research & Innovation

We are proud to be a trusted, leading Trust in mental health and dementia research, with world-class researchers and innovators, and strategic relationships with a number of academic and research partners. Our Research & Innovation department is made up of 125 colleagues and eleven specialist research units, brimming with clinical, academic and lived experience in mental health.

Find out more about Research & Innovation at GMMH

Our mission is to ensure that every service user or member of staff across all our hospitals and sites has the opportunity to participate in and benefit from clinical research and innovation for better outcomes and increased clinical effectiveness. We encourage all Trust colleagues to embark on a research journey with us, and we have clinicians from all disciplines developing their research skills and portfolio with us.

Read about some of our latest studies, in conjunction with CAMHS: