Family Therapist

WE ARE NEWHAM: Our clinical team is central to supporting, developing and sustaining our systemic social work model of practice. We are a busy, supportive team with strong positive working relationships with social work practitioners and managers across CYPS. We value a pragmatic, responsive, anti-oppressive, purposeful approach to practicing systemic therapy. We are looking for enthusiastic Family Therapists who can use their specialist skills directly with children, families, kinship systems, social care practitioners and the wider community to enable change to happen, drawing on the expertise of families and their networks. The role will sit under the Director of Clinical Practice, reporting directly to a Senior Family Therapist. This is an exciting 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 offering targeted interventions mainly within family homes. Part of the role will be to develop and deliver training packages to a variety of staff groups, to offer supervision to social work practitioners on their year 1 and 2 of systemic training and be an active contributor in making Newham a Centre of Systemic social work excellence. You will join a local authority that actively supports systemic practice and this is recognised in the recent Ofsted Report (November 2025); ‘ The ongoing investment in the clinical team and the social work academy has undoubtedly strengthened practice and contributed to a culture of learning’.. ‘Workers show an in-depth knowledge of the authority’s practice model and are able to articulate the positive impact this has had on consistency and the quality of practice with children and their families’ To find out more about the role please download the JOB DESCRIPTION.

WE ARE NEWHAM: Our clinical team is central to supporting, developing and sustaining our systemic social work model of practice. We are a busy, supportive team with strong positive working relationships with social work practitioners and managers across CYPS. We value a pragmatic, responsive, anti-oppressive, purposeful approach to practicing systemic therapy. We are looking for enthusiastic Family Therapists who can use their specialist skills directly with children, families, kinship systems, social care practitioners and the wider community to enable change to happen, drawing on the expertise of families and their networks. The role will sit under the Director of Clinical Practice, reporting directly to a Senior Family Therapist. This is an exciting 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 offering targeted interventions mainly within family homes. Part of the role will be to develop and deliver training packages to a variety of staff groups, to offer supervision to social work practitioners on their year 1 and 2 of systemic training and be an active contributor in making Newham a Centre of Systemic social work excellence. You will join a local authority that actively supports systemic practice and this is recognised in the recent Ofsted Report (November 2025); ‘ The ongoing investment in the clinical team and the social work academy has undoubtedly strengthened practice and contributed to a culture of learning’.. ‘Workers show an in-depth knowledge of the authority’s practice model and are able to articulate the positive impact this has had on consistency and the quality of practice with children and their families’ To find out more about the role please download the JOB DESCRIPTION.