Working for Family Psychology Mutual

We seek great values driven staff, brilliant communicators, dedicated professionals, patient people who are impatient for change, people we can coach, build skills with, learn from, value their contribution and develop our positive culture and achieve our mission.

Family Psychology Mutual is a colleague-led mutual social enterprise that delivers evidence-based interventions for families and young people. Interventions include Functional Family Therapy (FFT) which is a structured, systemic intervention delivered weekly in family homes by trained FFT therapists. We have used FFT standard as well as clinical variants for child welfare (FFT-CW) and for young people at risk of criminal exploitation (FFT-Gangs). We started out offering Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST), an alternative to out of home placement that allows young people with highly challenging behaviour to remain with their families with intensive in-home family therapy services and 24/7 on-call support. This team, whilst part of Cambridgeshire County Council Children’s Services, brought the practice of MST to the UK and has a strong track record of establishing and sustaining interventions with adolescents. We have built up considerable experience of the implementation of evidence-based interventions and have provided both consultancy support and programme management for such services.

We are an ambitious and dynamic company with plans for growth and increased diversity of our business interests. We have expanded quickly and believe that there is significant market potential for our services. Our human capital is our greatest asset and we will value and enhance your clinical skills. We offer high quality clinical training in the methodologies we use and a supported environment in which to learn and become competent in FFT. We will support formal training for systemic and family therapy training with part funding of your course and time off for attendance at taught classes. We generally expect you to train in the FFT model first before undertaking additional training but if you have already begun your training we can discuss your pathway with you.

We are already progressing FFT therapists to become FFT Supervisors and hope to develop FFT Supervisors to become Programme Managers as we build our capacity and develop our clinical teams so we are serious about our investment in you. We are interested in what additional skills, ideas and interests you will bring with you too and where you might help us to develop new services and opportunities.

Employee Benefits

Family Psychology Mutual offers flexible working and hours with a positive culture and working environment. Employee benefits include an Employee Assistance Programme, free tea and coffee, cycle to work scheme, an electric vehicle scheme and childcare vouchers. We will provide you with good IT, efficient back office administration and software packages to make your life easier. As an employee owned business we want to and expect to hear your voice about what the company does and where we decide to invest our resources. We will pay for a meal out at Christmas and bring you to whole service events twice a year so that you can develop peer relationships and contribute to the company.

Employee Owned Council

We take pride in our EOC, consisting of co-owners who have chosen to represent their colleagues. The EOC serves as a platform for regular meetings, enabling co-owners to address any issues impacting the teams. There are multiple channels for representing and amplifying employee voices during senior management and FPM Board meetings.

Diversity

Family Psychology Mutual seeks to provide services which are inclusive and recognise diversity, structural inequalities and difference. At FPM, diversity is a core element of our service offer and reflected within our staff teams and core values. We recognise the families we work with can face disadvantages and discrimination and we strive to ensure that our services are accessible and tailored to our families’ individual needs. Our Diversity Group, which has a membership drawn from across the company, was established to ensure that diversity and equality are integrated into all aspects of FPM, including policy development and recruitment practices.

Togetherness Days

We hold two Togetherness Days per year as an opportunity to come together as a company, build relationships, discuss best practice and be updated on developments in the business as a whole.

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Current Vacancies

  • Family Psychology Mutual is a staff owned social enterprise which is registered as a Community Interest Company limited by shares. All staff, after their probationary period, buy a single £10 share in the business and all eligible staff are therefore owners of the company with an equal stake. Our articles of association are clear that we do not profit share, instead we invest any surplus into either staff development or investments in the company. Employee ownership therefore shapes what we do and how we are governed. The company has a board of nine which includes three members of the Leadership Team, three staff employee owners and three Non-Executive Directors. This enables the company to ensure high standards, compliance and good governance. All Directors are registered with Companies House. All staff attend the Annual General Meeting and we have a number of structures in place to consult with and respond to the employee owners so that participation can be achieved.

    The company was established in 2015 as a spin out from Cambridgeshire County Council but it took until 2017 before the anchor contract with Cambridgeshire for the provision of Multi Systemic Therapy was TUPE transferred to the new business. This service was closed in 2019 due to funding constraints.

    In early 2018 FPM began the mobilisation of the Positive Families Partnership in London as a social impact bond collaboration with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships. A Functional Family Therapy Team was established which was managed by FPM whilst two MST teams were also created to service the contract which was initially for five London Boroughs before expanding to ten. FPM undertook the programme management of the services as well as delivering the FFT. This finally closed in December 2021.

    FPM established an FFT team in Suffolk as an edge of care intervention with Bridges as the social investor in 2019. A FFT Child Welfare Team was also established in Norfolk on a similar basis in the same year. Both services have expanded and are set to run to January 2024.

    In Redbridge FPM was grant funded for a feasibility study with randomisation to pilot the clinical variant of FFT for young people at risk of criminal exploitation/gang involvement FFT Gangs. This service is undergoing an independent evaluation with the University of Greenwich and ran from 2019 to April 2022.

    FPM places a high value on the human capital which we have supported and trained. We invest in staff training and development and seek to reward and value our staff by providing opportunities for growth, development and progression. Of course we must balance our books and ensure that we take good strategic decisions for the business. We are seeking to diversify and develop a range of services so that we can manage how we take on both contracted and commissioned work. We have a staff from a diverse range of disciplines including social work, psychology, mental health nursing, systemic and family therapy. We aim to involve the staff in business development and in identifying opportunities for growth and expansion.

    We have a good relationship with Bridges Outcomes Partnerships who have invested in the services we have provided as a social investor and through the creation of outcomes based contracts. FPM is paid on a fee for service basis so that there are no undue or adverse incentives for us in the clinical work we undertake.

    As a business we strive to live by our company values and to be led by evidence, data and outcomes in how we plan, deliver and evaluate our services. We know that working in this way can be challenging and disciplined but we know that it also creates opportunities for clinical creativity, learning and experience which can be highly rewarding. We know that staff have been able to progress their careers with us and also to attain promotions elsewhere with highly valued skills.

    We have specific plans in place to support and celebrate diversity in the workplace and aim to ensure that we reflect the diverse nature of our families.

    Please send completed application forms to recruitment@fpmcic.com