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An exciting opportunity for a skilled and imaginative Senior Art Psychotherapist to join the 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 young people, and care experienced young adults up to the age of 25 years. TESS also provides consultation and support service 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 young people, 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 as part of a team
Use art, creativity and relationship to help young people make sense of their stories, strengthen attachments and discover new ways of being in the world
Requirements:
HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist
Recognised postgraduate qualification
Experience of supporting trainees and newly qualified art psychotherapists
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
Ability to demonstrate team and multi-agency working
Experience with children in care, care leavers or family work is highly valued
Interest in evidence-based practice and research
Nice to have:
Experience with children in care, care leavers or family work
Potential, creativity and values
Interest in evidence-based practice and research
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
Supportive and collaborative work culture
Tailored development programs, supportive supervision, and a range of learning opportunities
Competitive reward package including generous leave allowance, Local Government pension scheme, and additional benefits