Job summary
Background
Family
Psychology Mutual CIC has been awarded a Youth Endowment Fund grant for an
efficacy Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) for Functional Family Therapy
Gangs (FFT-G). This has been granted
after a successful pilot RCT that took place in Redbridge to test out the
ability of the intervention to adapt and deliver in a UK context and achieve
outcomes for young people aged 10 to 17 who are considered at risk of gang
involvement and criminal exploitation.
The project will be delivered in collaboration with the London Boroughs
of Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, and Haringey.
There will be three FFT-G teams, each consisting of one Supervisor (or Supervisor-in-training),
two FFT workers and a part-time (0.8 FTE) Business Support Officer. The teams will be embedded within their
assigned London Borough where we anticipate close interagency collaboration,
joint working, and the use of shared data systems.
Main duties of the job
About the
role
In this role,
you will deliver intensive, whole-family interventions in young peoples homes
over the course of 3 to 6 months with a caseload of up to 6 families. Referrals will
be made by participating Boroughs for young people between the ages of 10 and 17
who are considered at risk of gang involvement and criminal exploitation. You will be trained in the FFT-G
clinical model and supported through weekly clinical consultations, individual
supervision, and a defined training plan.
You will
receive additional follow-up training in the FFT-G model throughout the
duration of the project and develop expert knowledge in county lines and child
criminal exploitation (CCE). There will be
opportunities to learn from our existing FFT sites in Norfolk and Suffolk and
the whole project will be programme managed by an experienced FFT Supervisor
and Family Therapist. The 3 teams will be jointly trained and there will be opportunities
to share experiences and learn new skills with your colleagues.
About us
About us
FPM is a not-for-profit
social enterprise owned by its employees. We have extensive expertise in evidence-based
programmes and anticipate future opportunities to develop and broaden our
portfolio of services. If you're
interested in learning more about employee ownership in FPM, please contact the
EO Council by sending an email to EOCouncil@fpmcic.com.
FPM is
committed to fostering inclusion and expanding the diversity of its
workforce. We recognise the significant
value that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation, and we believe that
the inclusion of diverse voices plays a vital role in driving our companys
mission. We therefore encourage suitably
qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.
Next steps
We have an
application pack for the role, which includes the job description, the person
specification, and additional information about the company, our values, and
our approach to employee ownership. You can access it here https://www.fpmcic.com/fft-g-worker-job-vacancy.
To apply
To apply for
the role, you can either complete the online application form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=SgM0zGDgf0ClcAWNeSRmC9Wzbjm9ChJMnR_Y_aSe1ERUN1FIQklYS0tCUEhMT1Y5NkJUVjZUTTQ0OC4u
or download the Word version available here https://www.fpmcic.com/fft-g-worker-job-vacancy
and once completed, send it to recruitment@fpmcic.com.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The FFT-G Worker role is to provide home-based family therapy sessions with young people and their families using the FFT-G intervention model. Referrals will be made by participating Boroughs for families with young people between the ages of 10 and 17 at risk of gang involvement and criminal exploitation.
Workers will be required to carry a caseload of up to 6 families, providing services in their homes or in community settings for 3 to 6 months. FFT-G Workers will be trained, coached, and supervised in accordance with the FFT-G model by an FFT-G Consultant. FFT-G is a licensed intervention and fidelity to the model is quality assured (www.fftllc.com).
This position requires out of hours and flexible working to meet families when they are available. Appreciation of the local demography and culture will be valuable.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
The FFT-G Worker role is to provide home-based family therapy sessions with young people and their families using the FFT-G intervention model. Referrals will be made by participating Boroughs for families with young people between the ages of 10 and 17 at risk of gang involvement and criminal exploitation.
Workers will be required to carry a caseload of up to 6 families, providing services in their homes or in community settings for 3 to 6 months. FFT-G Workers will be trained, coached, and supervised in accordance with the FFT-G model by an FFT-G Consultant. FFT-G is a licensed intervention and fidelity to the model is quality assured (www.fftllc.com).
This position requires out of hours and flexible working to meet families when they are available. Appreciation of the local demography and culture will be valuable.
Person Specification
Other Requirements
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to develop networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective team working.
- Ability to work flexible hours - flexibility in attitude and approach.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
- Ability to be coached and receive and act upon critical feedback.
- Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- Able to tolerate ambiguity and take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self- care, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skills.
- Motivated towards personal and professional development.
- Ability to promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to travel to family homes.
- Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating everyone with respect.
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to operate within a research trial and collect the data required.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological or psychosocial assessment, psychological and/or systemic formulation.
- intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills, where there are a range of options.
- Ability to work in community and family settings, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the family and how it interacts with the professional system in ways which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes.
- Ability to work with families who are experiencing high levels of stress.
- Ability to apply a clinical model of systemic theory and intervention and the ability to achieve adherence to a clinical model. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
- Ability to act upon consultation and feedback.
- Ability to develop pragmatic and goal specific measurable steps that can be set out for young people and their families.
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing demands; planning and organising skills for caseload management.
- Skills in self-management, including time management.
- Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms, including regular supervision for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Skill to present progress of the FFT-G work and formulations of relational problems in multi-disciplinary settings.
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group (adolescents with conduct disorder, and offending behaviour; social care) and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to think of the family as a client.
- Ability to adopt a systemic perspective.
- Knowledge of child and young peoples development.
- Ability to reflect on cases and develop formulations and make use of supervision.
- Ability to operate as lone worker.
- Ability to engage with client and families in their own homes.
- Ability to work therapeutically with the use of interpreters.
- Ability to plan and achieve specific goals.
- Ability to accept to work to a specific model of intervention.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including working therapeutically in family homes.
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, safeguarding and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management of services for children and young people.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS or equivalent.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups {e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.,}.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of working with diverse communities, including knowledge of relevant community languages.
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification in social work, occupational health or nursing.
- or
- Qualification as a systemic practitioner or a family therapist or psychotherapist at a post graduate level.
- or
- A masters level degree in a relevant discipline e.g. forensic psychology, clinical or applied psychology.
- Substantial demonstrable work experience of working with young people and families.
- Professional registration with a national registrant body.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial (2-3 years) assessed experience of working as a qualified professional with a level of systemic training or as a clinical psychologist with experience of systemic work.
- or
- Substantial (3 years+) post qualifying experience (social work, occupational health and nursing) with young people and families in a relevant setting.
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with children, young people and families in either community, primary care, CAMHS or inpatient settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the systemic care and treatment of children or young people.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working in a (multi-disciplinary) team.
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families.
- Experience of risk assessment, risk management and safety planning.
Desirable
- Experience of assessing and treating clients within the community
- Experience off working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of working with a range of therapeutic modalities.
- Experience of working intensively using a systemic approach.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Other Requirements
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to develop networks with professionals from other agencies to promote effective team working.
- Ability to work flexible hours - flexibility in attitude and approach.
- Able to contain and work with high levels of distress from clients.
- Able to contain and work with organisational stress.
- Ability to be coached and receive and act upon critical feedback.
- Interpersonally calm and able to defuse difficult, volatile situations.
- Able to tolerate ambiguity and take decisions in situations of incomplete information.
- Ability to exercise appropriate levels of self- care, recognising when it is necessary to take active steps to maintain fitness to practice.
- Good organisational skills.
- Motivated towards personal and professional development.
- Ability to promote appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to develop and use complex multi-media materials for presentations in public, professional and academic settings.
- Able to travel to family homes.
- Recognise peoples right to privacy and dignity, treating everyone with respect.
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to operate within a research trial and collect the data required.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological or psychosocial assessment, psychological and/or systemic formulation.
- intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. This requires the use of highly developed analytical and judgement skills, where there are a range of options.
- Ability to work in community and family settings, managing the highly complex emotional relationships within and between the component parts of the family and how it interacts with the professional system in ways which maximise the potential for therapeutic outcomes.
- Ability to work with families who are experiencing high levels of stress.
- Ability to apply a clinical model of systemic theory and intervention and the ability to achieve adherence to a clinical model. Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
- Ability to act upon consultation and feedback.
- Ability to develop pragmatic and goal specific measurable steps that can be set out for young people and their families.
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing demands; planning and organising skills for caseload management.
- Skills in self-management, including time management.
- Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate, clinical governance mechanisms, including regular supervision for the support and maintenance of clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
- Advanced keyboard skills.
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Skill to present progress of the FFT-G work and formulations of relational problems in multi-disciplinary settings.
Desirable
- Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non- professional groups.
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group (adolescents with conduct disorder, and offending behaviour; social care) and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the client group.
- Good understanding of other professionals theoretical perspectives of this client group.
- Ability to think of the family as a client.
- Ability to adopt a systemic perspective.
- Knowledge of child and young peoples development.
- Ability to reflect on cases and develop formulations and make use of supervision.
- Ability to operate as lone worker.
- Ability to engage with client and families in their own homes.
- Ability to work therapeutically with the use of interpreters.
- Ability to plan and achieve specific goals.
- Ability to accept to work to a specific model of intervention.
- Ability to work with a racially and culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including working therapeutically in family homes.
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation, ethical issues, safeguarding and strategic frameworks including The Children Act 1989, and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management of services for children and young people.
- Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS or equivalent.
Desirable
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups {e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnoses, people with additional disabilities etc.,}.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies.
- Knowledge of working with diverse communities, including knowledge of relevant community languages.
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification in social work, occupational health or nursing.
- or
- Qualification as a systemic practitioner or a family therapist or psychotherapist at a post graduate level.
- or
- A masters level degree in a relevant discipline e.g. forensic psychology, clinical or applied psychology.
- Substantial demonstrable work experience of working with young people and families.
- Professional registration with a national registrant body.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial (2-3 years) assessed experience of working as a qualified professional with a level of systemic training or as a clinical psychologist with experience of systemic work.
- or
- Substantial (3 years+) post qualifying experience (social work, occupational health and nursing) with young people and families in a relevant setting.
- Experience of specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with children, young people and families in either community, primary care, CAMHS or inpatient settings.
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for the systemic care and treatment of children or young people.
- Experience of working with a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse with a wide variety of client groups across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
- Experience of working in a (multi-disciplinary) team.
- Experience of working with a range of childhood disorders at the acute and chronic stage.
- Experience of self-harm assessment and intervention with both individuals and their families.
- Experience of risk assessment, risk management and safety planning.
Desirable
- Experience of assessing and treating clients within the community
- Experience off working within a multicultural framework.
- Experience of working with a range of therapeutic modalities.
- Experience of working intensively using a systemic approach.
- Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
