Mobile Shared Help Employee Care & Casemanagement

• Provide guidance to children and young people up to 18 years old with complex care needs across various life domains.
• Offer support for psychological and psychiatric problems for which the existing care offer is insufficient or trust in assistance is under pressure.
• Prevent and repair breaks in the care trajectory, so that care management is regained by:
• Providing individual trajectories for children/young people and their context.
• Supporting facilities and aid workers already involved.
• Investing in effective collaboration, care, and trajectory coordination with social services and centers.

• Follow up on stalled trajectories of minors with (suspected) psychological/psychiatric problems.
• Organize and coordinate multilateral, intersectoral, and trust-building consultations between minors, family, supportive figures in the context, involved aid (at least one mental health partner), and other partners (e.g., school), prioritizing the needs of the client system.
• Coordinate/co-facilitate feasible, individual aid worker trajectories.
• Support the minor, their context, and involved (care) partners in developing the care trajectory.
• Coordinate the care trajectory and follow up on agreements made in the interim.
• Think creatively and out-of-the-box in consultation with all stakeholders in the active search for the most suitable care.
• Build an (aid) network around the minor and their context.
• Critically monitor, evaluate, and adjust the commitment and operationalization of aid and services, and the progress of the network process for the minor and their family.
• Prepare reports during consultations and consolidate agreements made.
• Ensure confidentiality of information and perform tasks in light of applicable regulations regarding professional secrecy.
• The guidance runs from start to finish according to a treatment line. Treatment goals and the care trajectory are evaluated and adjusted at various moments.
• Be part of the same multidisciplinary regional team with a fixed regional coordinator and network psychiatrist.
• Participate weekly in team meetings led by the regional coordinator, focusing on exchange and case discussions.

What they ask

• Diploma in a human sciences field.
• Relevant work experience in mental health care.
• Knowledge of psychopathology and treatment modalities concerning children and young people.
• Experience in mobile, connecting, and networking actions.
• Experience in coordinating consultations in a team, organizational, and/or network context.
• Client and network-oriented work: empowering, multi-partial, connecting, and supportive.
• Systematic and goal-oriented work based on the vision, mission and values of the cluster.
• Available at short notice.
• Able to travel easily (mainly Ghent-Meetjesland).
• Preferably a B driving license and own transport.

Assets.

• Experience and/or expertise in addiction care, intellectual disability, forensic work, culturally sensitive care, team support, or early childhood.
• Knowledge of other languages.