Job overview

The MHST Team are looking to recruit a art-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.

Working for our organisation

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. 

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.  For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan.  As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme”. 

 The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.