How You’ll Be Involved

We are looking for three Family Systemic Psychotherapist’s where you will an opportunity to be part of a thriving and dynamic service, responsible for supporting the delivery of systemic practice interventions and providing guidance to practitioners, social workers and team managers. The core purpose of this role is to contribute to the development of systemic practice into children’s social work and to provide advice and guidance alongside social work interventions.

You will work within a team of practitioners although will be managed by the Systemic Service Lead. Their intervention may include direct work with children and families, but they will not be case accountable. They will provide consultation, direct work, teaching and support the embedment of relational systemic practice in the workforce.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

The role

You will be an Associate for our new Centre for Relational Practice.

In this role you will work with and alongside practitioners and team managers at a ‘hands-on’ intensive level to enable them to deliver a systemic interventions to children and families. The work will include:

• Specialist systemic assessments of complex cases to formulate intervention plans.
• Coaching and supervising individuals and groups of practitioners
• Ensuring high standards of record keeping.
• Producing reports which can be used in court proceedings and acting as an expert witness where required.
• Contributing to assessments of risk and protective factors

You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the introduction, embedding and development of an outcome’s framework and culture across the service. This will include:

• The delivery of systemic elements of the practice framework across Early Help and Children’s Social care, which leads to a reduction in children subject to child protection plans and care proceedings.
• Embedding systemic practice in supervision, assessments, and network meetings.