FFT Supervisor

Job Description

Salary: £46,100 per annum

Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Contract/Hours: Permanent – Full Time – 37 hours

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays (over 7 weeks paid leave a year for full time workers) and the option to buy or sell leave
• Professional qualifications and excellent training
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Up to 5% employer contribution and life assurance cover
• Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15,000 national retailers

At Action for Children, we offer more than just a job. Join us and you’ll be part of a team dedicated to giving children safe and happy childhoods. See how your skills can make a real difference, helping solve the problems children and young people face every day.

A bit about the role

Are you a naturally empathetic, focused and passionate about changing the lives of children and their families throughout Scotland for the better? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Family Functional Therapy Supervisor to join our Functional Family Therapy team in Ayrshire. This is a unique and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.

The Functional Family Therapy Team provide weekly, home based family therapy sessions to clients utilizing the Functional Family Therapy model. The service supports families with young people at risk of being placed in care between the ages of 11 and 18.

You will work towards the agreed goals of the commissioned service whilst providing effective and supportive line management and weekly supervision to the Functional Family Therapists (FFT).

As a Functional Family Therapy Supervisor, you will:

• Lead the FFT service and develop service plans to ensure that the needs of young people referred to the service are met.
• Managing the performance of the service so that the strategic aims of Action for Children and partner local authorities and trusts are achieved with regard to delivery of FFT as an evidence based programme.
• Contributing to leading on the development of higher standards of evidence underpinning Action for Children services to vulnerable children and young people through collaborative work with the practice Improvement department.
• Working in partnership with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of a good multi agency service and maintain strong collaborative partnerships with those key stakeholders.
• Line managing FFT therapists and take responsibility for ensuring FFT therapists adhere to FFT principles and FFT analytic processes.

• Maintain a case load of families.

Let’s talk about you

• Fully trained in Functional Family Therapy and significant experience of delivering Functional Family Therapy.
• Experience of managing and promoting therapy services.
• Degree or relevant professional qualification or equivalent in Family Therapy, Social Work, psychology, education or equivalent qualification.
• Appropriate registration where relevant.
• Proven track record of working effectively and flexibly with families.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection procedures.
• Linemanagement and clinical supervisory experience.
• Experience of multi agency participation.
• Ability to balance management duties and clinical caseload.
• Experience of outcome based, data driven service reporting.

Why Action for Children?

Every child should have a loving home, food, warmth, the chance to grow and learn – the support to cope with life’s challenges. But too many children don’t.

By bringing your passion and unique skills and experience, you’ll help us create change that really matters. And when we succeed, we’ll recognise what you did to make a difference.

We’ve been driven by love to take action for children for over 150 years, giving them the protection and practical help they need. A lot’s changed since 1869. But what children really need hasn’t. So as long as children need us, we’ll be here.

Will you join us?

How to apply

If you require any support to apply, please contact: with reference 12577

Diversity, equality and inclusion

We work hard to create an inclusive environment. One where individuality is celebrated and where everyone feels valued and supported. Because when we come together, with skills like yours, we’re capable of amazing things.

We actively encourage applications from people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and people with a disability, as these groups are under represented within Action for Children.

For Children Service roles only: Men are currently under represented within our Children Service roles. We’d like to change that. So, we really encourage men to apply for any of our Children Service roles.

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