Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Family Support Worker
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Job Description
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.
About the Role
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.
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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.
About the Trust
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 fulfilling lives.
Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including 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, and research and development.
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About the Organisation
To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.
Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
Contact Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Viktoria Cestaro
- Job title: Lead Psychologist
- Email address: viktoria.cestaro1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01223 216878
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