Family Liaison Lead

Job overview

The MHST Team are looking to recruit a part-time Band 7 Family Liaison Lead for 30 hours per week.

A key part for this role will be working with families and understanding the importance of education whilst recognising that some issues can be addressed through a therapeutic approach working with the family, parents/carers, child and linking in where necessary with the education provision and how they can help support and create a robust plan to ensure that the child is at the centre of any plan of care.

The post-holder will be expected to discuss clients’ care to colleagues and to other, non-professional carers, working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

The post holder will also be accountable for their own professional actions and will need to interpret broad occupational policies (i.e. commitment to a family approach to treatment, involving service users and carers at all levels of treatment and service development).

Main duties of the job

Delivery of a full range of family treatments to all patients.  These treatments may include making use of the following systemic approaches: Non Violent Resistant Therapy.

The post holder is expected to participate in assessments of patients referred for treatment and to consult to multi-disciplinary and multi-agency colleagues regarding the family treatment component of each young person’s care.  Assessment of family interactions and formulating how these are connected to diagnostic factors will be a key component of the post, influencing the direction of treatment and recommendations for appropriate family interventions.

To communicate, in a highly skilled and sensitive manner to clients, family carers and others as appropriate, information that may be distressing concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under their care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To produce reports on clients, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of systemic assessment and formulation and treatment outcome, in a way that does justice to the complexity of the problems described, but that are understandable to the recipients of the reports, including clients and referrers

To work in partnership with other disciplines and to maintain links with statutory and non-statutory and primary care agencies as appropriate.

To provide appropriate care for clients not engaged in treatment including; psycho-education, liaising with other professionals, engaging in treatment including using structured approaches such as motivational interviewing, risk assessment, health promotion and crisis intervention.