Multisystemic Therapy Manager

Newcastle City Council; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

MST Return Home training and ongoing咨询

Flexible working arrangements

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous annual leave entitlement

Professional supervision and dev.

Development opportunities

Innovative service development

Job summary

Newcastle City Council is recruiting a Multisystemic Therapy Manager within the Safeguarding Service to lead the MST Return Home team. The role focuses on returning children from care through intensive, family-centred interventions and strong collaboration with social care, health, and education partners.

You will oversee therapists, ensure fidelity to the MST model, and support staff wellbeing while driving outcomes for children and families in a complex multi-agency environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified professional in a relevant discipline (e.g., Social Work, Psychology, Nursing, Systemic Practice).
• Significant experience with children, young people and families with complex needs.
• Extensive experience of systemic, family-based and behavioural interventions.
• Experience supervising, coaching and developing practitioners.
• Strong safeguarding, child protection and multi-agency collaboration knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a team of MST Return Home therapists.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of the MST Return Home model through supervision and performance monitoring.
• Develop partnerships with Children's Social Care, health, education and stakeholders.
• Promote strengths-based, restorative and relationship-focused approaches.
• Support staff learning, development and wellbeing.
• Collaborate with MST consultants and national leads to maintain model fidelity.
• Participate in the supervisor on-call rota as required.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching & development

Safeguarding

Multi-agency collaboration

Evidence-based practice

Systemic/family-based interventions

Education

Social Work

Clinical Psychology

Mental Health Nursing

Systemic Practice

Job description

This post is Fixed term - 3 years

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About the Role

We are recruiting a Multisystemic Therapy Manager, within our Safeguarding Service.

Are you passionate about helping children and young people successfully return home from care?

Newcastle City Council is committed to providing the right support at the right time to enable children and young people to thrive within their families and communities. As part of our continued investment in evidence-based services, we are establishing a newMultisystemic Therapy (MST) Return Home Teamand are seeking an exceptional practitioner and leader to join us as a Multisystemic Therapy Manager.

We already have well established MST Standard and MST CAN Teams and you would work closely with, and be supported by, the managersfor these teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the development and delivery of a pioneering service that will support children and young people returning home from residential or foster care. The MST Return Home model provides intensive, family-centred intervention designed to improve reunification outcomes, reduce re-entry to care, and help families build sustainable change. The model works closely with families and wider systems including social care, education, health and community networks to support successful transitions home.

You will:

• Lead and supervise a team of MST Return Home therapists.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of the MST Return Home model through regular supervision, consultation and performance monitoring.
• Develop effective partnerships with Children's Social Care teams, health services, education providers and other key stakeholders.
• Promote a strengths-based, restorative and relationship-focused approach.
• Support staff learning, development and wellbeing.
• Work closely with MST consultants and national programme leads to maintain model fidelity and achieve service objectives.
• Participate in the supervisor on-call rota in line with programme requirements.

About You

• A recognised professional qualification in Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, Systemic Practice or another relevant discipline.
• Significant experience working with children, young people and families with complex needs.
• Extensive experience of systemic, family-based and behavioural interventions.
• Demonstrable experience of supervising, coaching and developing practitioners.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, child protection, children in care, and statutory children's services.
• Experience of working effectively in multi-agency environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication and relationship-building skills.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice and achieving positive outcomes for children and families.

Experience of delivering or supervising MST or other intensive family intervention programmes would be advantageous, although training in the MST Return Home model will be provided.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive MST Return Home training and ongoing consultation.
• A unique opportunity to establish and shape an innovative new service.
• Regular professional supervision and development opportunities.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Flexible and supportive working arrangements.
• A strong organisational commitment to workforce wellbeing.

Why Join Us?

This is a rare opportunity to play a leading role in establishing an innovative and evidence-based service that will help children safely return home and remain with their families. If you are an experienced leader who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and delivering meaningful change, we would love to hear from you.

Interviews for this role will take place in person on 22 and 25 September 2026 and due to a two stage interview process you may be required to attend on both dates.

We are committed to protecting and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This post is working in regulated activity. If you are successful we will undertake additional recruitment checks which will include a check to see if you have had any criminal convictions, a check of police information and we will check the barred list(s). It is a criminal offence for a barred individual to apply for a job in regulated activity.