Systemic Family Therapist, Multi-Disciplinary Team on-Sea - Sanctuary Personal

Systemic Family Therapist, Multi-Disciplinary Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Systemic Family Therapist within the Multi-Disciplinary Service to work Full Time based in Southend.

The salary for this permanent Systemic Family Therapist role is up to £52,413 per annum.

• Provide expert consultation to Social Workers & Team Managers on cases involving complex needs related.
• Support practitioners in identifying and analysing risk factors, protective factors, and underlying issues affecting children and families.
• Offer guidance on trauma-informed approaches, contextual safeguarding, and culturally competent practice.
• Lead or support the development of robust risk assessments, ensuring that risks to children and vulnerable adults are clearly identified, analysed, and addressed.
• Advise on and co-develop safety plans that are practical, proportionate and responsive to the lived experiences of families.
• Ensure that risk management strategies are aligned with statutory guidance, local protocols, and best practice frameworks.
• Deliver highly specialist therapeutic interventions to children and families to reduce risk, build resilience, and promote behavioural or relational change.
• Use evidence-informed tools and techniques tailored to the presenting issues (e.g. motivational interviewing, psycho-education, safety planning).
• Facilitate reflective practice sessions, case consultations, and peer learning to build practitioner confidence and competence.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to social workers and early-help practitioners, particularly in managing high-risk or emotionally complex cases.
• Act as a key liaison between children’s services and specialist agencies (e.g. domestic abuse services, CAMHS, substance misuse teams) to ensure coordinated responses.
• Promote integrated working through joint assessments, shared planning, and collaborative decision-making.
• Represent the service in multi-agency forums, panels, and strategy meetings, advocating for the needs of children & families.
• Contribute to service development initiatives, including policy reviews, pilot programmes, and evaluation activities.
• Share learning and best practice across the organisation to foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements of this Systemic Family Therapist Job.

• UKCP registered Family and Systemic Psychotherapist.
• Completion of AFT-accredited qualifying level training.
• Prior professional qualification in a relevant field (e.g. social work, psychology, nursing).

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.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).