This role is an empowering opportunity to provide system-level psychologically informed interventions within Islington council’s Family Help and Safeguarding services, supporting client-facing staff in these services to respond to mental health issues for parents and adults in families.
Parental and adult mental health issues within families is one of the top reasons for families to be referred to Family Help and Safeguarding services in the borough. Adults in these families can often be multiply excluded from services due to the complexity of their presentations. Providing psychologically informed support and interventions with the council’s workforce enhances their knowledge, understanding and skill in working with adults in families who experience mental health issues, providing their service users with an experience of being understood and their needs being identified and responded to appropriately.
The Psychologically Informed Consultation and Training (PICT) service provide an intervention of consultation, training and joint working that supports wider systems outside of North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) to work more effectively with people presenting with complex emotional needs and mental health presentations (not necessarily diagnosed).
The focus of this role will be to provide PICT services to professionals based within Islington Council's Family Help and Safeguarding Services.
The PICT team brings mental health expertise to frontline services with the aim of promoting greater knowledge, understanding, curiosity and skill, enhancing the working relationship between frontline staff and their service users, supporting integration of healthcare and local authority organisations.
Interventions used include:
Individual and group consultation with staff - to facilitate consultation sessions and support the identification and understanding of mental health needs of adults in the family.
Training to staff to help increase understanding and confidence in working with clients with complex needs.
Effective liaison and joint working between Council Services and Adult Mental Health Services .
Providing group reflective practice.
To carry out joint direct work with allocated council staff and their service users where indicated, for a small number of clients.
Work closely and collaboratively with our partners in CAMHS to ensure a whole family approach.
Co-locate with council teams as a member of the NLFT PICT Team. Support for staff in PICT roles includes regular supervision, monthly facilitated team reflective practice, peer-consultation, monthly sessions with an organisational consultant, seminar and peer learning sessions.
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
For the job description and person specification, including detailed responsibilities of the role, please see the job description and person specification document attached.
