The focus of the FFC programme is on family-led and multi-agency ways of working that ensure that families ‘only tell their story once.’
S support Family Help staff to interpret clinical mental health information provided by Adult Mental Health Services, or on SLaM systems, to support decision making and care planning.
· For more complex cases, join SWs and FPs on visits to families to support them to have conversations with parents about their emotional wellbeing.
To advocate for parents and influence decision-making within Family Help, Adult Mental Health Services, and the multi-agency group.
· Ensuring that staff in Family Help are aware of the thresholds, criteria, and pathways for referring parents and children to specialist mental health services, and escalating cases where risk and need have changed.
· Providing advice on wider support services available outside of SLaM, recognising that many parents may not meet thresholds for SLaM services.
· Providing training for Family Help and Adult Mental Health staff
· Accessing both LCS and SLaM systems to support case formulation and care planning through understanding history of the case, and improve efficiency of communication between Family Help and Adult Mental Health Services
· For more complex cases, input into key statutory and professionals’ meetings (Legal Planning, Strategy Discussions etc.) to support care planning.
· Receiving 1-to-1 supervision
To lead on service development and best practice in joint working between adult mental health services.
· To review and assist with the implementation of structures and systems to ensure safe, accountable practice is developed and maintained across children’s and adult mental health services.
· To monitor and audit the quality of joint work with families affected by mental illness and create user forums to forward developments in this area.
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust(SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre.SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field. SLaM delivered more than 14,000 training experiences in 2014: providing an extensive range of learning opportunities for staff at all levels. In addition, our working relationship with King's Health Partners allows those working at the Trust to get involved in academic research.
The postholder will work in the new Family Help Service within Children’s Social Care, offering expert clinical advice on parental mental health issues to enhance the identification and multi-agency management of children whose parents have mental health problems that involve safeguarding concerns.
The postholder willsupport a ‘Think Family’ approach across Family Help and SLaM Adult Mental Health Services, with the aims:
· To support family. Help to identify and understand parental mental health needs.
· To improve the understanding of the impact of parental mental health on parenting capacity and the safety and wellbeing of children and young people
· To improve the recognition of, and response to, the wellbeing and safety of children within Adult Mental Health Services, including to improve staff documentation of evidence in assessment, care planning and safeguarding plan, of the ways in which the needs of such children are being effectively identified and met.
· To improve communication and joint working between Family Help, Adult Mental Health Services, SLAM Corporate Safeguarding Team and CAMHS, and bringing adult mental health services into the professional network
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Nov 2025