Multi-Systemic Therapist Supervisor

Since the Trust’s inception in April 2018 our fabulous teams have won awards for Community Cohesion (The Teamwork Programme) and Youth Justice of the Year Award at the UK wide 2019 Shine a Light Awards (Sandwell Youth Offending Service). Our Staff Award events highlight the amazing work delivered by our dedicated individuals and teams and gives us a chance to show our appreciation to all who are on this improvement journey with us.

The Trust has recently secured funding from the Department of Education which will enable us to bring our ’12 reasons to work in Sandwell Children’s Trust’ to life, particularly around learning & development in offering development opportunities for all staff.

Please visit our 12 reasons via this hyperlink: https://www.sandwellchildrenstrust.org/work-with-us/

As a new Trust we are agile, we understand where we are in our journey, our recent Ofsted monitoring visits reported;

• Sandwell Children’s Trust knows itself well.

• Management oversight has improved

• The workforce is increasingly stable; continued to attract and retain staff.

• Recruited additional agency staff above its established workforce, recognising the need to reduce caseloads

• The social workers talked to all spoke positively about working for Sandwell Children’s Trust.

• Progress has been made in ensuring that the first response to families and children in need is timely

Sandwell is developing an enhanced MST team to add to the existing standard MST provision. The new team will be based on the standard MST model, however developed specifically to meet the identified needs of the local area where there are young people aged 10-14 involved in or at risk of violence, gang involvement and criminal exploitation. As one of the first teams in the world to use this approach, research will correspond with the service delivery. It is an exciting time to join us!

As an MST Supervisor you will bring your professional qualification and experience, and extensive supervisory experience to the MST service where you will manage and a team of up to 4 MST therapists. MST Supervisors work within the MST model under guidance and support of the MST Expert (MST-UK) to provide clinical supervision and oversight to therapists working intensively with families using the MST analytic process and principles. You will be qualified and experienced in directly providing and supervising a range of evidence-based therapeutic and behavioural models, and will have significant experience of working with young people and their families where there is challenging behaviour. You will be experienced and assured with holding clinical responsibility for cases, and having a senior lead role when working with other agencies and partners.

Also to provide on-call support to the Therapists. To work flexible hours including evenings.

You will be positive, passionate and committed to making a difference to young people and their families; and also with the supervision and development of staff. You will enjoy a highly varied role, with a number of concurrent projects and tasks, with no two days the same. You will use your professional and personal skills to engage both directly with children and families and with all levels of professionals, and able to seamlessly switch between roles, responsibilities and audiences. You will be confident to manage risks in a calm and assertive manner, fostering an environment of support and resilience; and will embrace and lead service changes and developments.

You will highly value and have experience of delivering evidence-based practice and research, and will be keen to develop your own knowledge of interventions and supervisory skills within the MST model, as you in turn use these skills to develop the therapists in your team. You will enjoy working autonomously as a lead professional and manager of your team, but also value and appropriately seek the support and guidance of the Programme Manager.

Application is by way of CV and a 500 worded statement, statement to cover:

• Experience

• Key achievements

• Specialist Knowledge

• Development

• Overview of what you can bring to the role

Please send your CV and 500 worded statement to Nicola1_green@sandwellchildrenstrust.org

Please note: Travel is an essential part of this job and therefore it would be extremely difficult for you to do your job effectively if you did not use a car for all or most of the time. It is essential that you hold a full and valid driving licence.