Community Senior Practitioner - Family Intervention

The North Tees Early Intervention for Psychosis Service (EIP) is looking to recruit a permanent Band 6, Community Senior Practitioner - Family Intervention. This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing family interventions team working across Stockton and Hartlepool EIP teams. You will be an innovative, creative, practitioner, wanting to develop yourself but also able to contribute to the on-going development of Family Interventions within the EIP service.,

• To undertake psychoeducation-based family interventions with families of clients within the Stockton and Hartlepool EIP teams



• To work with the systemic family therapists in the team in relation to the development of family work within the teams



• To support the carer support workers with their work in relation to carers



• To be part of the MDT as appropriate



• To assess and manage risk as required



• To record information as appropriate on to the appropriate systems
  
  Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework
  
  North Tees EIP team is made up of two teams, Stockton and Hartlepool. Both teams are friendly and welcoming and offer an opportunity to undertake innovative and creative work which makes a difference to people's lives. Family work is a vital part of the work undertaken in EIP teams. You will be given the opportunity to work with families using a recognised psychoeducational model to offer support to families or networks where there is someone experiencing distress and on a first episode psychosis pathway. You will also be working with identified carers with a carers educational support.