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Team Manager opportunity in the Intensive Family Therapy (IFT) Team, City Wide Service. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager to lead the launch of a new Intensive Family Therapy (IFT) team in Birmingham. This role is central to establishing a high‑quality, evidence‑based service that supports young people aged 9–17 who are at risk of entering care or custody due to exploitation, offending, or severe behavioural difficulties. As we expand our IFT offer, strong leadership is essential to ensure the team delivers intensive, systemic, and trauma‑informed interventions that keep young people safely at home, in school, and connected to their communities.
Job Responsibility:
Lead and support a team of IFT Therapists
Provide clinical and line management supervision
Oversee risk and safeguarding
Guide therapists in developing clear goals with families
Ensure interventions address underlying systemic drivers of behaviour
Work closely with multi-agency partners
Contribute to service development
Maintain high standards of practice
Lead the team to reduce offending, anti-social behaviour, and risk of out-of-home placements
Improve young people’s engagement in education, training, and positive activities
Strengthen family relationships and tackle underlying systemic issues
Provide specialist psychological formulation, consultation, and guidance
Oversee assessment, allocation, and coordination of care, including multi-agency involvement
Ensure fidelity to the IFT model through supervision, training, and quality assurance
Support therapists through home visits, case reviews, and reflective practice
Maintain strong partnerships with Children’s Services, Youth Justice, schools, and other agencies
Manage performance, workload, and professional development for up to seven therapists
Contribute to recruitment, service development, evaluation, and reporting
Ensure safe, effective community practice and adherence to policies and professional standards
Participate in the on-call rota to support therapists during crisis work
Requirements:
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject
Preferably professionally qualified in a relevant discipline (e.g. social work, psychology, mental health nursing)
Significant experience of working behaviourally and/or therapeutically with young people and their families where there is challenging behaviour
Positive, passionate and committed to making a difference to young people and their families
Demonstrate an interest in evidence-based practice and research
Keen to develop knowledge of IFT and therapeutic and intervention skills
HCPC (or equivalent) registration
Ability to travel across Birmingham
Ability to work flexibly across home, community, and office settings
What we offer:
We pay your Social Work England registration fee
We pay your DBS application fee and reimburse your update service fee
A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service
Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme
Free on-site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley)
Onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use
Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more
Flexible and hybrid working policy
A variety of working patterns
Generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the Local Government Pension Scheme
Discounted gym memberships with Pure Gym and Nuffield Health