Multisystemic Therapy Practitioner
Multisystemic Therapy Practitioner
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£ 44225 - 53141
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Job Description
Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 21 April 2025 (Please note this will be a two stage interview process)
Closing Date: Sunday 20 April 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: FC9 44225..91
Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week Must be able to participate as part of a 24hour per day 7 days per week oncall rota.
Location: Glenrothes & Fife Wide
Supporting Statement
As part of your application you must provide us with a Supporting Statement which outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For more information check out the How to Applysection of our Career Site. Without a Supporting Statement your application will not be progressed. Please upload your Supporting Statement at the section marked upload resum. Your Supporting Statement must not be a CV. More information is available on our Career site at www.fife.uk/jobs/supportingstatement
Job Details
Multisystemic therapy (MST) is an intensive family and communitybased intervention that targets the multiple causes of antisocial behaviour in young people who without intervention could be at risk of being placed into local authority care or at risk of custody or secure care. MST adopts a socialecological approach to understanding problematic behaviours in young people. Viewing the individual as being surrounded by a network of interconnected systems that include the young person themselves their family as well as their peer group school and wider neighbourhood.
In MST parents and caregivers are viewed as the main instigators of change in the young person. Therefore the ultimate goal of MST is to empower the family to take responsibility for making and maintaining positive changes in the young persons behaviour.
We are looking for a practitioner with significant experience of working effectively with young people and families with multiple problems and challenging behaviours. You will be able to evidence considerable success in having engaged hard to reach families and have experience in delivering therapeutic interventions. You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills be able to remain calm with ability to defuse difficult and sometimes volatile situations.
The key tasks are:
To provide a specialist intensive family support service to maintain young people at home with their families when safe to do so.
To carry a small specialist caseload of children & families with complex and severe problems.
As an independent practitioner to have accountability and responsibility for your own caseload under the supervision of the Multisystemic Therapy (MST) Supervisor /Programme manager selecting from a range of empirically based specialist therapeutic interventions.
The Person
Educated to SCQF level 9 which includes a Degree or equivalent in Social Work Applied Psychology Mental Health Nursing or equivalent
Completion of courses/qualifications in theoretical models and applied therapeutic techniques relevant to an adolescent/serious conduct disorder population
Significant experience of working effectively with young people and families with multiple problems and challenging behaviours. You will be able to evidence considerable success in having engaged hard to reach families. You will have strong interpersonal and communication skills be able to remain calm and have the ability to defuse difficult and sometimes volatile situations.
Knowledge and experience of family systems social ecological and cognitive behavioural therapy theories and their application
Workers new to role must gain registration with the relevant regulatory body within six months of start date
Ability to travel within Fife.
Further Information
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Employment Type
Full-Time
