Family safeguarding therapist
Family safeguarding therapist
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12-08-2025
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Job Description
3 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
We are seeking qualified Family Safeguarding Therapists to join a dynamic Family Safeguarding Mental Health Team.
The successful candidates will deliver psychological and systemic therapeutic interventions to parents and carers working both one-to-one and in group settings.
The role focuses on supporting adults with significant and complex needs particularly around parental mental health and wellbeing while engaging with wider social care systems involved with families.
Therapists will provide clinical services including assessment formulation and time-limited evidence-based interventions tailored to the needs of families.
They will identify and deliver the most appropriate therapeutic interventions drawing on professional expertise and knowledge of models such as trauma-informed CBT DBT EMDR functional therapy and systemic family therapy.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
Deliver psychological and systemic interventions to parents and carers both individually and within groups.
Conduct clinical assessments and develop formulations to inform time-limited evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
Tailor bespoke interventions to address specific parental mental health needs.
Engage effectively with parents carers and wider social care teams to support family safeguarding objectives.
Maintain accurate clinical records and contribute to multi-disciplinary team discussions and planning.
Apply trauma-informed and systemic approaches to therapeutic work with families.
Support and promote positive mental health and wellbeing outcomes for adults within the safeguarding framework.
Ensure all therapeutic work complies with professional ethical and organisational standards.
Participate in relevant supervision training and professional development activities.
Travel as necessary to deliver face-to-face therapy appointments maintaining a hybrid working model.
Skills/Experience:
Proven experience delivering therapeutic interventions in a safeguarding or social care context.
Expertise in trauma-informed therapies such as CBT DBT EMDR functional family therapy or systemic family therapy.
Strong clinical assessment formulation and evidence-based intervention skills.
Ability to engage and build therapeutic relationships with adults experiencing complex mental health and social challenges.
Experience working collaboratively within multi-agency teams including social care professionals.
Excellent communication interpersonal and organisational skills.
Commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information appropriately.
Full driving licence essential for travel to various locations.
Additional Information:
Relevant qualification and professional registration in a recognised therapeutic discipline (e.g. clinical psychology counselling systemic family therapy).
Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week.
All therapeutic sessions to be delivered face-to-face in a hybrid working model.
Proven experience delivering therapeutic interventions in a safeguarding or social care context. Expertise in trauma-informed therapies such as CBT, DBT, EMDR, functional family therapy, or systemic family therapy. Strong clinical assessment, formulation, and evidence-based intervention skills. Ability to engage and build therapeutic relationships with adults experiencing complex mental health and social challenges. Experience working collaboratively within multi-agency teams, including social care professionals. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills. Commitment to safeguarding vulnerable adults and children. Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive information appropriately.
Education
Full driving licence essential for travel to various locations. Relevant qualification and professional registration in a recognised therapeutic discipline (e.g., clinical psychology, counselling, systemic family therapy).
Employment Type
Full Time
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