Clinical Team Lead Family interventions

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Job overview: Band 7 family Lead Early Intervention Psychosis service in Birmingham. The role is to lead on Family Interventions. The position holds an important role in actively shaping and supporting the work within the service undertaking and delivering family interventions to our service users and carers. There will be ongoing process of evaluating family interventions, carer support in the service and liaising with the team and managers around the service development in relation to supporting family interventions using BFT (Behavioural Family Therapy) evidence-based approach. This Role will be dual with some reduced caseload in care coordinating first episode of psychosis.

Main duties of the job: The post holder will fulfil a dual role of care co-ordinating a caseload of young people experiencing a first episode of psychosis (8 cases) within a designated team combined with providing leadership over the delivery of family interventions across the wider Birmingham EIP service. The care coordinating role will focus on delivery of key interventions as per the NICE standards of care for EIP. The post holder will demonstrate excellent engagement skills and build relationships with young people that form the basis of offering a high standard of evidence based clinical care.

Working closely with the services Head of Nursing and Clinical Pathway Lead they will support the delivery of interventions such as behavioural family therapy in the 4 EIP teams through the offer of training, individual and group supervision and advice and guidance to the MDT’s. Where required they will also jointly deliver interventions with complex cases to support care coordinators and the clinical team. The post holder will also support the services Head of Nursing in improving the offer of structured, evidence based carer support with consideration of how we deliver carer groups both face to face and virtually.

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities: Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Post registration training in Behavioural Family Therapy, Post registration Training as a Trainer for Training in Behavioural Family Therapy or Caring for Carers.

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Skilled in working with other agencies including the voluntary sector. Knowledge of Child Protection Procedures, adult safeguarding, and vulnerable young adults. Previous experience of supervising junior staff. Able to work with minimal supervision.

• Experience: Extensive experience in working within an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service. Extensive experience of delivering interventions to families with mental health difficulties. Experience of leading or supporting other staff within this area of work. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team. Experience of research. Experience of leading and managing a team.

• Motivation For The Role: Commitment to improving the support offer for families and carers with an EIP service. The drive to promote the family and carer voice within services. The ability to challenge when there are gaps in services and engage colleagues along to make improvements.

Our current Mental Health Services division may be transferring the provision of its services to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT). Whilst at present you are applying for a position within Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation should you be successful in gaining a position within Mental Health Services, your employment may in the future be transferred over to BSMHFT. Should any new information become available, you will be kept informed of this throughout your recruitment process.

As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.