**Proposed Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 22 April 2024**

**Closing Date: Sunday 7 April 2024**

**Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months**

**Salary: FC9 £42,686.23 - £51,302.31**

**Working Pattern: 36 Hours per week**

**Location: Glenrothes**

**Supporting Statement**

**Job Details**

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is a community-based model directed to older children, teenagers, and their families. The approach is targeted at those families where the young person is at risk of coming into care or custody and aims to prevent family breakdown, to reduce offending and to improve educational outcomes.

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. 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.
- Workers new to role must gain registration with the relevant regulatory body within six months of start date.
- Ability to travel within Fife.
- Must be able to participate as part of a 24-hour per day, 7 days per week on-call rota.

**Before confirming to your appointment, you will be required to obtain Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership through Disclosure Scotland and become a member of the relevant PVG scheme.**

**Further Information**
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- **Employee Benefits - **Employees have access to a benefits package that offers discounts on a wide range of products and services
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