Systemic and Family Therapist OCC609408

Job summary

Salary range:£48,526 - £54,619 per annum - pending pay award

Work location:Union Street, Oxford

Hours per week:37

Contract type:Permanent

Vetting requirements:This role is subject to a Criminal Records Check and this post is subject to the Childcare (Disqualification) Regulations 2009 and successful candidates will be required to complete a Disqualification Form.

Closing date: Friday 14th July 2023

Interview date: To be confirmed

We are a creative, dynamic, caring, and reflective team that value the diversity, ideas, and contributions that each member of our team brings. This is reflected in the supportive structure of the team with plenty of opportunities to share evidence-based learning, develop new ideas, share learning from our clinical experience and a variety of spaces for reflection, including our monthly reflective practice sessions facilitated by Dr Arlene Vetere.

Main duties of the job

This role will include the facilitation of training to equip the workforce to integrate psychological and systemic theory, practice and thinking and develop toolkits to better support children and families. Through a service wide approach this role will support the development and facilitation of Reflective Practice and Psychological Consultation with teams alongside supervision to other professionals both within CEF and within partner agencies e.g., health and education.

At our core, we are a team who think, reflect and work systemically through a trauma-informed lens, while drawing on a wide range of evidence-based interventions to inform and guide our work with children, young people and families within the FSS. This is further supported through valued opportunities for further training and CPD activities both externally and internally within the service. As a team, we hold a service wide systemic lens focusing on service development. We continue to learn from the services and teams we support alongside the experiences of children, young people and families to continually shape and develop the service and our clinical offers.As a team and across social care, we work with children, young people and families with diverse needs and cultural experiences, and we hope to reflect and value this diversity as a Clinical Team.

About us

Oxfordshire County Councils Children, Educational and Families Directorate continual drive for innovation has developed an exciting new role within The Children Social Care Clinical Team. This strategically key role forms part of a wider Clinical Team, which supports young people, families and social care staff and teams across Childrens Social Care in Oxfordshire.

This exciting role will be part of a multi-disciplinary Clinical Team led by a Consultant Clinical Psychologist. This diverse and innovative post will provide the opportunity to utilize the breadth and depth of systemic family intervention as well as support you to further develop your clinical, systemic, and leadership skills.You will be working as part of our Team who work with, and alongside, the Residential and Edge of Care Pathway (REOC). REOC is an innovative service providing support to families who are at risk of their child being taken into care, and for children (and their families) who have been placed in one of the councils residential childrens homes.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council

Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX41JP

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxfordshire County Council

Address

Family Solutions Service

Union Street

Oxford

OX41JP

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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