Our clinical team is central to the development of a systemic social work model of practice. We are looking for Family Therapists who can use their specialist skills directly with children, families, social care practitioners and the wider community to enable change to happen.
The role will sit under the Senior Family Therapist and work closely with the Edge of Care Reunification team.
This is an opportunity to do more than just practice Systemic Therapy; it’s an opportunity to shape, develop and create new ways of practicing. The role will give you the chance to use your skills directly with families in a wide range of differing contexts. Part of the role will be to develop training packages to a variety of staff groups and be an active contributor in making Newham a Centre of excellence.
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Candidates need to be registered by the UKCP or be eligible for registration within the next six months, as well as holding a qualification in social work.
You will be able to balance imagination with rigour, see possibility of change in the most complex of contexts, and hold hope when others are struggling to do so. You should want to join a Local authority that is changing, one that will welcome your contribution to its developing practice model. You will be a skilled therapist with direct experience of working in children’s social Care. Be registered by the UKCP or be eligible for registration within the next six months as well as holding a qualification in social work.
You have previous experience and an understanding of working within a diverse, urban community; and share our ambition and energy in embracing new ways of working including working relentlessly to keep children in their family networks when safe to do so. You are always open to learning and to helping others learn so that children and families can benefit from our best practice. You have high working standards and are conscious of your own professional development and the potential that comes with this – for you, your colleagues, and ultimately for children in their families and community.
We’re a vibrant, dynamic, culturally rich London Borough with a young population and limitless potential. We’re a challenging yet rewarding place for social work practise to flourish and we are steadfastly committed to our workforce being representative of the families that we work with. We are taking coordinated, meaningful and focused action to develop an inclusive culture because we believe this is at the heart of enabling diversity in all respects, including diversity of thought. We are taking positive actions to challenge all forms of discrimination and injustice to help make Newham a fairer and more equitable place for children and families to live, learn and thrive.
We’re building a fairer Newham through investment, co-production and by continuously developing our 'Circles of Support' practice model; centring on systemic and restorative practice and a specialist support offer for our practitioners. Ofsted described Newham as having a positive culture of learning and development and we always try to develop talent in-house. We promoted 30 internal colleagues in 2023 alone, and have put more than 47 practitioners through further education since 2020. We value your development and at Newham career progression is a reality for many of our colleagues.
We understand that social work can be a challenging yet ultimately very rewarding profession that makes demands of you personally and professionally. In Newham we value your wellbeing and we aim to ensure that you have a better work/life balance through a remote working offer when you are not visiting children and families, a modern office space for when you’re on site, a flexible working policy where all requests are considered, and a clinical offer to support you to do your best work.
We’ve been working hard to make Newham a great place to practise social work:
