Outpatient Practitioner Youth in The Hague

Youz, part of Parnassia Groep, is looking for an outpatient practitioner for the part-time departments Zeester and Stroming in The Hague on the Dr. van Welylaan.

Are you looking for a fun job and are you a practitioner who enjoys combining group work with outreach work in the home situation and at school? Is your focus on working with children, adolescents, their families, and their networks? Then this is a role in which you truly make an impact.

The part-time service of Youz in The Hague offers intensive treatment at Stroming and Zeester to children and adolescents who have become stuck in one or more areas of life. Often, there is a combination of mood disorders, anxiety complaints, ASD, ADHD, and/or other complaints.

Zeester offers a unique treatment program to children of primary school age (6.5 to 12 years) consisting of 16 sessions over 20 weeks, during which the steps from awareness to behavioral change are completed. You will provide group treatment for one or more half-days per week, in which children work on social skills and emotion regulation. At the same time, you ensure that these skills are also applied at home and at school by working in an outreach capacity and actively involving parents and schools in the treatment.

Stroming offers treatment to adolescents aged 13 to 21. The treatment consists of a modular group offering aimed at developing skills, supplemented by individual therapies. In the part-time service, there is a structure/motivation group (3 half-days per week) where adolescents are prepared for part-time treatment (4 half-days per week). During treatment, the environment plays an important role in securing the learned skills.

Stroming and Zeester together form one part-time team at the premises on the dr. van Welylaan in The Hague. As a result, you will work closely in a multidisciplinary team (including outpatient practitioners, specialized therapists, (Gz-)psychologists, and systemic therapists). As an outpatient practitioner, you have an important role in connecting the treatment to the home and school situations. Using IAG, parental guidance, and systemic therapy, the treatment is broadened, and work is done with parents/families on maintaining factors.

The duties

• providing group treatments where theory and experiential learning are brought together in the field of social skills and emotion regulation (primarily at Zeester).
• offering outreach outpatient (family) treatment at home and within the school situation, aimed at processes of change.
• conducting parent and information meetings together with colleagues, to involve parents and teachers in the treatment.
• intensive collaboration and coordination with parents, schools, and chain partners.
• participating in MDTs and team meetings and performing reporting, registration, and evaluations.

Our new colleague is an expert with a focus on content. Within a multidisciplinary team, you achieve goals together, so it is important that you are open to the ideas and thoughts of colleagues. You can also collaborate well and communicate clearly with external parties, such as caregivers and schools. You are someone who radiates calm to your environment and you can switch between multiple tasks in a single day. You have an affinity and preferably work experience with our target group and/or working as an outpatient practitioner.

• completed HBO education MWD, SPH, HBO-V, or HBO Social Work (specialization in care / mental health professional profile), preferably supplemented with training in systemic working/IAG or similar;
• registered in the SKJ register for youth and family professionals;
• affinity with children of primary school age;
• experience in outpatient care and with systemic working within mental healthcare (GGZ) is a plus;
• an IAG training and/or training in systemic work (such as STW) is a plus;
• in possession of a driver's license and car;
• flexible working attitude, strong interpersonal and communication skills, and a true team player.

To be eligible for this position, a positive Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required.
Checking references and verifying diplomas are part of the application procedure.