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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a skilled and imaginative Art Psychotherapist to join our therapeutic and emotional support service (TESS). TESS is an emotional wellbeing service that offers assessment and a wide range of individual, dyadic and group interventions to Birmingham’s children in care, their parents and carers, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, and care experienced young adults up to the age of 25 years. TESS also provides consultation and support to the professional and care network.
Job Responsibility:
Deliver support and guidance via a consultation and guidance service to the wider children in care, unaccompanied asylum seeking children, and care leavers support network
Offer direct therapeutic support with a focus on improving emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships, developing emotional stability and personal resilience
Work closely with children, young adults and other agencies
Demonstrate team and multi-agency working
Requirements:
HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist with a recognised postgraduate qualification
Genuine commitment to working with care-experienced children and young adults
Compassionate, reflective and emotionally resilient
Confident working with trauma, attachment and loss
Comfortable navigating complex systems and multi-agency work
Passionate about ethical, child-centred and anti-oppressive practice
Nice to have:
Experience with children in care, care leavers or family work
What we offer:
Dedicated art materials budget and access to well-resourced spaces
Opportunities to develop specialist arts-based approaches
Clinical supervision and reflective practice spaces
A service culture that values curiosity, innovation and the therapeutic power of creativity
Access to training, regular professional supervision, and on-going support