Systemic Family Therapist - Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team - Bexley - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading social care service provider is seeking a Systemic Family Therapist to join their Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team in Bexley. This full-time permanent role offers a salary of up to £52,698 per annum. Responsibilities include leading a systemic family approach, assessing family difficulties, and providing expert interventions. Ideal candidates will have a social work qualification and experience in child welfare systems.

Qualifications

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead on embedding a systemic family approach within the care team.
• Assess difficulties of children and families and provide recommendations.
• Provide specialist advice regarding diagnosis and interventions.
• Contribute to the development and audit of services for families.
• Provide specialist assessment for significant and complex referrals.

Skills

Social work qualification with registration

Experience in managing social work caseloads

Experience in community and/or group work

Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems

Job description

Systemic Family Therapist – Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team

Sanctuary Personnel has a new permanent position available for a Systemic Family Therapist within the Looked After Children & Leaving Care Team to work full time based in Bexley. The salary for this permanent Systemic Family Therapist job is up to £52,698 per annum.

• Lead on embedding a systemic family approach within the Looked After Children and Leaving Care Service and align with the Signs of Safety Practice Model for Social Care.
• Assess presenting difficulties of children and family’s relationship breakdown and make recommendations for interventions and provide evidence-based intervention.
• Provide specialist advice and consultation regarding diagnosis and intervention to colleagues and external agencies, working autonomously within professional guidelines and within a team.
• Contribute to the development, implementation, and audit of services for families with children presenting to the service.
• Provide a specialist assessment of referrals of a significant and complex nature to formulate and implement plans for the intervention to support parents and young people.
• Work in ways which are sensitive to and appropriate for the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
• Provide specialist systemic psychotherapy with clinical autonomy drawing on a range of models and brief interventions.
• Make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about intervention options considering complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes.
• Maintain current knowledge of the operation of video equipment and promote ethical and effective use in line with directorate policy.
• Work in accordance with team objectives by adhering to social care and Directorate policies, including risk assessment and recording.
• Maintain up to date and accurate record keeping.
• Keep under review and develop the structures, procedures and working methods for which the post holder is responsible.
• Establish and develop effective working relationships and productive partnerships with all relevant partners.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds and is committed to building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.