Multisystemic Therapy Practitioner

at  Fife Council

JOB DETAILS

Multisystemic therapy (MST) is an intensive family and community-based intervention that targets the multiple causes of antisocial behaviour in young people who, without intervention, could be at risk of being placed into local authority care or at risk of custody or secure care.
MST adopts a social-ecological approach to understanding problematic behaviours in young people. Viewing the individual as being surrounded by a network of interconnected systems that include the young person themselves, their family as well as their peer group, school and wider neighbourhood.
In MST, parents and caregivers are viewed as the main instigators of change in the young person. Therefore, the ultimate goal of MST is to empower the family to take responsibility for making and maintaining positive changes in the young person’s behaviour.
We are looking for a practitioner with significant experience of working effectively with young people and families with multiple problems and challenging behaviours. You will be able to evidence considerable success in having engaged hard to reach families and have experience in delivering therapeutic interventions. You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills, be able to remain calm with ability to defuse difficult and sometimes volatile situations.

The key tasks are:

• To provide a specialist intensive family support service to maintain young people at home with their families when safe to do so.
• To carry a small, specialist caseload of children & families with complex and severe problems.
• As an independent practitioner to have accountability and responsibility for your own caseload under the supervision of the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Supervisor/Programme Manager, selecting from a range of empirically based specialist therapeutic interventions.

• To provide a specialist intensive family support service to maintain young people at home with their families when safe to do so.
• To carry a small, specialist caseload of children & families with complex and severe problems.
• As an independent practitioner to have accountability and responsibility for your own caseload under the supervision of the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Supervisor/Programme Manager, selecting from a range of empirically based specialist therapeutic interventions