Family Support Worker - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for the South Community CAMHS Team to expand their offer of Family Support Workers within the team.

We cover Nottingham South and City areas.

We offer a service to children, young people and their families with mild to severe emotional and mental health difficulties.

The post is for full time, however, we can consider part-time for the right applicant.


You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team consisting of nurses, psychologists, CBT therapists, peer support workers, family support workers, psychiatrists and social workers.


You will be expected to deliver (under supervision), a range of evidence based interventions for children, young people and families.

This will include group work, individual work and parenting interventions.

You will be expected to work alongside the already established family support worker team, to identify suitable young people for interventions and manage the waiting list, prioritising treatment dependant on needs, using a range of flexible interventions.

You will deliver outcome-focused and time limited interventions for children and young people and families experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.


We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.


We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients.


Applicant should have good communication skills and be able to relate to young people and their families to engage them with interventions in relation to their mental/emotional health and well-being.

In addition you will be able to work both independently and as an effective team member.


You may be expected to attend multi-disciplinary meetings and liaise and work with other agencies such as education and social care.

You must hold a relevant child care qualification at Diploma level or equivalent, e.g. NNEB, NVQ with experience of working with young people and their families in relation to their emotional and mental health needs


A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

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