Clinical Team Lead Family interventions

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. The core features of the EIP model are based on the NICE guidance for young people and adults for psychosis and ensuring we are meeting the national NCAP (National clinical Audit of psychosis) standard in delivering family interventions

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.

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.

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