MST Therapist

Role: MST Therapist

Salary:38800 per annum.

Contract/Hours:37 Hours working mainly Mon Friday but to include earlies evenings Bank holidays and on call weekends.

Location: Manchester - This is a Hybrid role you will be expected to travel around Manchester to meet the needs of the service.

Benefits:

• Paid annual leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity adoption and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cove
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family youll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year we helped more than 670000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. Its the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that when we work together we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable childrens lives.

A Bit about the Service:

Action for children has been a longstanding provider of MST services and in this instance you will be working within the Manchester based MST is a time limited (3-5 month) intensive home and community-based model that targets the proven systemic causes of anti-social behaviour with adolescents. The therapy is delivered through direct work with the youths primary care givers schools and communities to create sustainable change. This role would suit those wanting to work systemically with parents care givers and schools to impact change upon youth.

A bit about the role:

As an MST Therapist youll work flexibly around the needs of the family to a clinical model (training will be provided on the MST model). You will engage and motivate care givers into changing their childs behavioural problems and increase their skill and ability to manage future problems. You will assess the families needs and identify the priorities for you as a therapist to work with them on. Therapists visitfamilies regularly in their home or place of convenience to address and work through issues and work collaboratively with other agencies and professionals to co-design interventions consistent with the MST model.

We are committed to supporting our team of therapists and will offer you continued professional development through both internal and external training. You will also receive full training in the MST model when you join as well as receive quarterly booster training from an MST expert.

How youll help to create brighter futures

• Being part of a team ofthreetherapists plus a supervisor and carry a caseload of 4-6 families
• Workingintensively with your families as well as attend school meetings and other professional meetings as necessary.
• Working flexibly to best meet the needs of families is an important element of the service.
• Participation in a telephone on-call rota providing support to families when they are in crisis.
• Being involved in weekly clinical group supervision to discuss your families andtosupport you in adhering to the MST model.

Lets talk about you

• Educated to degree level as a minimum preferably within a related subject such as Social WorkCBTProbation Services Youth Work nursing speech and language A professional qualification in a related subject (desirable).
• Experience of working with adults parents adolescents and families in challenging environments.
• Skills in delivering programmes of work to families and adolescents preferably parenting interventions and an ability to take clinical direction and feedback from the team supervisor.
• The ability to plan and predict problems and devise evidence-based interventions and evaluate them.
• Strong communication and engagement skills to help care givers to changing their childs behavioural problems.
• Access to transport is essential to travel across the County including remote locations.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for thisrole.

Interviews to take place week commencing the 16th of March 2026.

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details CV Supporting Statement & Information Equality & Diversity Submission & Declaration.

Talent Pool

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Contact:Erika Brinkman atquoting reference 12676.

Diversity equality and inclusion

At Action for Children were dedicated to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace.

Weactivelyencourageapplications from Black Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Dont meet every single requirement

If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with the job description wed love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role or another role within the Action for Children family.

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