Family Therapist

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews are currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Family Therapist to take on a new Locum role.

**Family Therapist Pay Rate**:£58 (assignment rate)

**Location**:Havering

**Contract Type**: Locum - 3-Months (with opportunity of extension and/or potential permanent position)

**Work arrangements**: 4x days p/w - Hybrid (minimum of 2x days in office)

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped - T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

**Summary**:

- Case holding, training design and delivery as well as aspects of supervision in form of individual/group consultations to social care colleagues
- Collaboration with key stakeholders and external partners
- The aim of this post is to introduce systemic thinking and casework into the social work service to children and their families in Havering.
- The intention is to locate a family therapist within a team of social workers and other practitioners to provide advice and guidance and therapeutic interventions alongside the social work intervention.
- Work with Havering’s, most complex, in need families where children are in need, those who are at risk of harm and with children who are looked after where their intervention will complement the Looked After Children health service.
- Demand a creative and flexible approach, working with families in their homes and other community settings as required. In addition to providing direct therapeutic interventions, the post holder will offer consultation to social work colleagues, foster carers, health and education professionals and others.
- Model good practice and provided peer to peer support across the services 200 Social care professionals
- Devise and provide training across the whole of the Children’s social care team including Managers, Advanced Practitioners, Social Workers, Family Support workers and Business Support team around systemic practice.
- Deliver matrix management supervision across the service.

**Requirements of the Family Therapist**:

- Counsellors must be registered and accredited members of the BACP
- Core qualification in Counselling/Psychotherapy or Psychology
- Recent UK experience working as a qualified Counsellor

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**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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.