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 work with families and young people who are on the edge of care or custody and therefore may be highly vulnerable and at risk.  Our staff share our commitment to promote and safeguard young people and their families using strength focused, evidence based practice.  If you are interested in joining our team please read our information for applicants below and take a look at our vacancies.  

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.

Family Psychology Mutual offers flexible working and hours with a positive culture and working environment. Staff benefits include an Employee Assistance Programme,  free tea and coffee, cycle to work 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.  

Our staff portraits tell their own story about our brilliant staff teams. If you would like to discuss an application further please do give us a call.

Our Teams

  • The back office and Directorate team at Appin House, Huntingdon, consist of our Operations Director, New Business Director, Clinical Director, Business Support Officer and our Data Analyst.

  • The team has been operational since March 2019 covering the county and is embedded into the Social Care Teams in Kings Lynn, Norwich, Breckland and Great Yarmouth. This is the second such service in the UK, so this is an exciting development for clinical practice. This is an outcomes-based contract for children 6-18 at risk of care entry (using a social impact bond structure), working to prevent children and young people entering care. We also work with a smaller cohort of young people who have entered care, for whom the service will manage a return home using the FFT-CW intervention.

  • Stronger Families in Suffolk is a ground-breaking programme providing Functional Family Therapy (FFT) to families in Suffolk.  Family Psychology Mutual provides the FFT team embedded within Suffolk County Council The team consists of 1 Team Manager, 2 Supervisors, 5 FFT Workers and a part-time Business Support Officer to provide administrative support.

  • FPM has been awarded a Youth Endowment Fund Grant for an efficacy Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) for Functional Family Therapy - Gangs (FFT-G) in collaboration with the London Boroughs of Redbridge, Tower Hamlets and Haringey. This is granted after a successful pilot RCT that took place in Redbridge to test out the ability of the intervention to adapt and deliver in a UK context and to achieve outcomes for young people aged 10-17 who are at risk of child criminal exploitation and gang involvement.

    There will be 3 teams with 1 supervisor and 2 therapists in each Borough and there will be some joint training across all 3 sites. Each team will be based in their respective Borough and will be embedded in local services where we anticipate high levels of cooperation and interagency working.

Job Vacancies

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Application Information

Please complete an FPM application form either online or the Word version.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Please send completed Word application forms to recruitment@fpmcic.com.

  • 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