Joe Rogers

Masters-qualified Systemic Family Psychotherapist (Tavistock and Portman) and Functional Family Therapist. Private practice working with couples and families, alongside 10+ years in statutory children's services and 7 years in senior management. NAAS accredited and PEPS I and II qualified.

Systemic Family Psychotherapist at Private Practice (2024-01 – Present)

Seeing couples and families presenting with relationship breakdown, communication difficulties, parenting challenges, blended family dynamics and significant life transitions, offering both short and longer-term therapeutic work. Draws on systemic, narrative and attachment-based frameworks to develop shared formulations and tailored interventions, creating a safe and non-judgemental space for clients to explore what brings them to therapy. Maintains ethical practice within AFT and UKCP professional frameworks, including regular clinical supervision, reflective practice and ongoing CPD.

Functional Family Therapist at Private Practice (2024-01 – Present)

Delivering Functional Family Therapy, a globally recognised, evidence-based and manualised intervention with a strong research base demonstrating effectiveness in reducing risk and improving outcomes for young people and families, with families referred through statutory children's services to strengthen relational functioning.

Works across all five phases of the FFT model: engagement, motivation, relational assessment, behaviour change and generalisation, carefully adapting each intervention to the family's individual strengths, context and goals.

• Collaborates with referrers, social workers and multi-agency professionals; prepares reports for statutory reviews and contributes outcome data to service evaluation.

Social Work Team Manager at London Borough of Ealing (2020-03 – 2024-12)

Held overall management responsibility for 200 or more children across assessment, CIN and CP teams, ensuring statutory compliance and consistently driving high standards of social work practice.

• Directly managed 4 service managers and 20 social workers, providing reflective, practice-focused supervision with a strong emphasis on professional development and staff wellbeing.
• Led the design and delivery of borough-wide training programmes, embedding relational, trauma-informed and systemic approaches across Children's Services at all levels.
• Oversaw Section 47 duty response, complex court and CLA casework, and led quality assurance including case auditing and performance monitoring.

Student Systemic Family Therapist at CAMHS (2020-09 – 2022-07)

Provided systemic family therapy across two CAMHS settings in years 3 and 4 of the MSc in Systemic Couple and Family Psychotherapy, working with anxiety, depression, trauma, family conflict and neurodevelopmental presentations.

• Developed collaborative formulations, safety plans and treatment approaches within a reflecting team model, contributing to MDT discussions and multi-professional care planning.

Senior Project Officer at London Borough of Islington (2018-07 – 2020-03)

Designed and delivered evidence-based training and an MI and trauma-informed coaching programme for social workers and managers across the service.

• Led NAAS implementation across Islington in partnership with the DfE; represented the borough externally through the Partners in Practice programme.

Deputy Social Work Team Manager at London Borough of Ealing (2017-02 – 2018-07)

Managed an assessment, CIN and CP locality team of 8 staff, delivering systemic group supervision and leading referral screening, strategy discussions and assessment planning.

• Progressed complex cases through Section 47 enquiries, ICPCCs, CLA reviews and court proceedings, keeping children's needs central and working constructively with families throughout.

Consultant Social Worker and Manager at London Borough of Ealing (2014-08 – 2017-09)

Managed and supervised a unit of trainee social workers holding complex caseloads, modelling excellent practice and providing systemic supervision; made PEPS 2 qualification recommendations and regularly deputised for the Team Manager.

Social Worker and Helping Families Practitioner at London Borough of Ealing (2011-08 – 2014-03)

Completed statutory safeguarding assessments, CIN and CP plans, LAC reviews and court work, building purposeful and empathic relationships with children, families and partner agencies.

• Designed and delivered a goal-focused family intervention pilot for children aged 0 to 13 on CIN and CP plans, contributing to its evaluation and wider roll-out.

Associate at AlphaPlus (2019-11 – Present)

Writing questions and designing assessments for NAAS with the DfE.

Independent Trainer at Independent (2019-10 – Present)

Commissioned by LAs to deliver safeguarding and systemic practice training.

Trainer, MSc at Frontline Academy (2017 – 2018)

Systemic practice training for CP social workers.

Consultant at Morning Lane Associates (2016 – 2017)

Systemic leadership and motivational interviewing training.

MSc in Systemic Couple and Family Psychotherapy – Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust (2022)

Systemic Practice – Morning Lane Associates and IFT (2017)

Practice Educator Professional Standards I and II – University of Bedfordshire (2015)

Frontline Leadership and Development Programme (2015)

Achieving Best Evidence Training (2016)

BA (Hons) in Social Work – London South Bank University (2011)