Family Experience Expert Geriatric Psychiatry

Antes is looking for a family experience expert for the Geriatric Psychiatry, Hospital Psychiatry, and Non-Acquired Brain Injury (NAH) division.

Are you someone with experience as a family member or relative of someone with mental health issues? Do you want to support other families and relatives in their own recovery process? Then we would love to get in touch with you.

Within Antes, we believe it is important to pay attention not only to the recovery of our clients, but also to that of their family and relatives. An important principle of our family and relative policy is therefore the recovery of the context. As a family experience expert, you play a valuable role in this. Based on your own experiences, you support family members and relatives and help healthcare professionals to actively involve them in the treatment.

Our division offers outpatient, ambulatory, and inpatient treatments in a work area that extends from Rotterdam and Capelle aan den IJssel to the South Holland Islands. We offer specialist care to elderly people with psychiatric and/or addiction issues, but also highly specialized treatments within hospital psychiatry and non-acquired brain injury.

You will work closely with another family experience expert, family ambassadors from the various teams, and management. You will be active at different locations and work together with a large diversity of colleagues. This makes your position versatile and varied. The duties:

• supporting family members and relatives of clients based on your own experience and expertise, both individually and in group settings;
• coaching healthcare professionals in collaborating with family and relatives;
• increasing awareness among colleagues regarding the importance of family participation and the recovery of the context;
• contributing to the development, implementation, and improvement of the family and relative policy;
• actively collaborating with family ambassadors, healthcare professionals, and management to strengthen the position of family and relatives.

• you have personal experience as a family member or relative of someone in intensive mental health and/or addiction care and know how to apply this experience in a recovery-oriented and supportive manner;
• you can reflect on your own experiences and apply them in a professional manner in contact with family, clients, and colleagues;
• you have an eye for the personal recovery process of relatives and know how to support them in this in an appropriate way;
• you possess HBO (higher professional education) working and thinking level and good communication skills, or are willing to develop these further;
• you are proactive, independent, and eager to contribute to the further professionalization of the position.

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.