Family Support Worker

Fixed-Term Contact - 12 months

This post is to work as part of a multi-disciplinary healthcare team working into the Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) clinic, based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. This is a regional service covering East of England. The post involves working alongside Medics, Nurses, Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, Family therapists and Dietitians. It involves working with children, young people and their families, where there are complex medical needs associated with excessive weight requiring hospital and community-based interventions.

The post holder will be a member of the wider paediatric psychological medicine team and employed by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. This post is for 0.5 wte (2.5 days a week) for a 12-month fixed contract and is part of a wider pilot project for meeting the healthcare needs of this group of young people.

The role requires assessment and delivery of care in the community; involving the patient, parents and family systems where there are complex social needs. The intervention level ranges from the specialist tertiary hospital based multidisciplinary team to community teams including: community health teams; social care; education; wellbeing services and primary health care. The main purpose of the role is to liaise with and advocate for services and resources on behalf of families; to provide direct practical support, financial advice, emotional and social support for families; as well as signposting. The role will require a significant amount of liaising with a range of relevant agencies and teams, and where relevant, to make appropriate and timely referrals to appropriate local services.

Interventions routinely cross professional and Acute Health Trust and Community Mental Health Trust boundaries and sometimes involve Child Protection work. The job can be highly distressing, dealing with such issues as chronic illness and family breakdown, and may deal with issues such as acute physical distress or illness, serious mental illness and safeguarding.

The job involves providing home and community support for the child and family to facilitate lifestyle changes and improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young people with complications associated with excess weight.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Viktoria Cestaro Job title: Lead Psychologist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01223 216878

Alex Coles - Principal Psychologist - Alexander. [email protected]

01223 216 878