EIP Lead for Family Interventions

at  Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust

Family Interventions Lead Early Intervention in Psychosis.
Bradford, Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven
We have an exciting opportunity for someone with a core profession (Nurse, SW, OT) and relevant Health Education England qualifications in Family Interventions for Psychosis. Or, someone with a Systemic Psychotherapy or Clinical Psychology qualification to join the Bradford District Care Foundation Trusts Early Intervention Psychosis service to lead on Family Interventions. The role holds an important and active role in shaping and supporting the work the service undertakes with service users and families.
Bradford EIP is a nationally recognised, high performing mental health service, specialising in the support and care of young people and adults with, or at risk of developing psychosis. The successful applicant will be joining a supportive, forward-thinking service with a rich history for delivering high quality care through a Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual approach.
The service works to a model of the whole MDT delivering Family Interventions. Our family offer ranges from psychoeducation, carer support, structured family interventions where this post will give focus and systemic psychotherapy.
The role involves a consultative and training role in supporting the team with their skills and confidence in working with families. You will work within a team approach and closely with the service Systemic Psychotherapist and carer development support worker.
The role involves day to day close working with our EIP teams, leading on discussions around family support and overseeing referrals for family interventions.
Individually and group supervision sessions around family work for staff with a varied and wide range of family intervention skills. Training/teaching of staff to supplement statutory training offered via HEE. Part of the role is to encourage and support staff with accessing and completing their family interventions training.
You will be supporting staff to offer interventions to all service users where appropriate, to record and document correctly and to work towards achieving excellent results in yearly national targets for early intervention teams.
There is an ongoing process of evaluating carer support and family interventions in the team and liaising with the team ana managers around and service development in relation to family interventions.
As well as supporting and supervising the team you will have your own caseload of families that you are working with in a therapeutic context.

EVERYTHING WE DO IS UNDERPINNED BY OUR CORE VALUES: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

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