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We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and creatively minded Therapeutic Social Work Team Manager to lead one of our specialist Therapeutic and Emotional Support Teams, working with children and young people in care (under 18) and their carers. 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:
Provide clinical and operational leadership to a multidisciplinary therapeutic team
Work collaboratively with the wider TESS service and Birmingham Children’s Trust
Ensure the delivery of high-quality, trauma-informed and attachment-focused interventions
Promote creative and flexible therapeutic approaches, including play-based, relational, and non-traditional methods of engagement
Support and supervise practitioners to deliver relationship-based therapeutic work with children, young people, and carers
Lead a collaborative, multi-agency approach to service delivery, placement stability and improving emotional wellbeing
Oversee therapeutic planning, risk screening and safety planning, and outcome monitoring for complex presentation
Develop and deliver training and consultation to carers and professionals
Embed reflective practice and staff wellbeing within the team culture
Requirements:
Experience working therapeutically with children and young people who have experienced trauma, loss, and attachment disruption
Confidence leading and managing a multidisciplinary team with a grounding in trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and relational approaches
Experience of managing or leading therapeutic services or teams (or aspiring to develop in this area)
Strong knowledge of safeguarding, risk management, and multi-agency working
Ability to demonstrate team and multi-agency working
Must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham
Must have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK (sponsorship not supported)
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
Experience of working with care experienced children and young people
Positive, passionate and committed to making a difference