Briege Mc Kee

- Working within Student Wellbeing team leading on assessment and management of students with complex mental health difficulties and/or medium to high risk,

- Support individual students with complex support needs providing a range of interventions, signposting and onward referrals

- Work in partnership with students and colleagues throughout the university and outside agencies to ensure that appropriate services are accessed and student wellbeing enhanced

- Make recommendations on best practice in mental health, review and develop resources, interventions, monitoring processes and strategic policies

- Responsible for the assessment and case management of students presenting with complex support needs or risk

- Work in partnership with students and other stakeholders to provide a person-centred, holistic assessments of need/risk and to deliver interventions to mitigate risk and promote wellbeing

- Take lead responsibility or the delivery of crisis support to students and risk-management within university policies and procedures, legal and ethical requirements requirements

- Develop a range of resources for students to access based on evidence based research on mental health and wellbeing

• Develop and deliver a range of services to meet the health and wellbeing needs of victims and survivors of the troubles, historical institutional abuse and mother and baby institutions
• Responsible for the assessment, co-ordination, implementation and evaluation of services
• Working alongside victims groups and community partners to ensure that services are reviewed and responsive to the changing needs of service users
• Provide support, guidance and leadership to Health and Wellbeing caseworkers
• Work alongside victims and survivors with complex mental health needs and experiences of trauma to develop and implement personalised support plans
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with all service users, community partners and specialists in the Trauma sector
• Attend senior management meetings with regard to budgets and operational issues
• Contribute to the management and evaluation process of VSS
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) for a range of audiences
• Skills in planning and problem solving; operationally and strategically
• Networking and developing collaborative partnerships with other professionals
• Co-design and service user involvement
• Communication and engaging with others
• Enabling others and creating learning environments

• Assessment and case management of adults and young people who have been convicted of a criminal offence and are subject to statutory supervision by the Courts or released from prison.
• Working within key legislation to deliver a professional social work service including safeguarding responsibilities and public protection
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to ensure that the needs of service users are being met and risks addressed and managed
• Complete timely, accurate and analytical reports to the Courts, Parole Commissioners and Local Area Public Protection committees
• Complete and review case plans with service users based on a detailed assessment of risk and needs
• Deliver a range of evidence based practice interventions to service users to address risk and complex needs and to enable change
• Responsibility for staff induction and training, student placements and post-qualifying training including the post of post of Professional in Practice (PIP) Co-ordinator.
• Skills and experience in person-centred working and relationship building
• Excellent interpersonal and therapeutic skills
• Case management
• Sound advocacy skills, problem-solving and decision-making
• Robust assessment, recording and evaluation skills
• Skills in planning and delivering a range of interventions
• Evaluation and monitoring
• Time management and ability to work to deadlines
• Competence in using Microsoft Office, Word, Excel and Power-point

• Responsible for developing a quality youth justice service to young people at risk and their families
• Completion of reports for the Children's Hearing system.
• Engaging and working in partnership with hard to reach young people and their families
• Completion of specialist risk assessments and delivery of group work, individual interventions.
• Working with education, community and voluntary sector to co-ordinate services to support young people at risk
• Make referrals to other agencies and signpost as necessary
• Adhere to child protection and safeguarding responsibilities and public protection issues
• Team and service development
• Community development
• Court reports
• Group and individual work

• Working as part of a children Services team within the statutory legislation framework and local authority procedures to protect children at risk and families in need of support
• Promoting, supporting and safeguarding the wellbeing of children and young people in need.
• Completing individual assessments and providing support for carers and families through liaison with local authority and external providers.
• Completing detailed assessments, plans and reviews to support families, and those children and young people at risk of harm.
• Effective communication skills with children and adults
• Relationship building skills
• Monitoring and recording
• Analysis and decision-making

• Co-ordinating, developing and delivering a range of practical and support services to prisoner's families residing in the Belfast area.
• This involved supervision and training of staff and volunteers.

• Providing information, education and training to community, voluntary and statutory agencies involved in developing children's play and recreation provision.

• Collating and analyzing data for a large-scale study into crime prevention in Greater Belfast area.