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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. Our work is relationship-based, trauma-informed and attachment-focused, supporting young people who present with complex emotional needs. We deliver creative, flexible therapeutic interventions and work closely with social care, residential services, health, and education partners to build emotionally safe and stable care environments.
Job Responsibility:
Deliver high-quality, trauma-informed and attachment-focused therapeutic interventions with children and young people in care
Use creative and flexible approaches to engagement, including relational, play-based and non-traditional methods
Contribute to therapeutic assessments, formulations, and care planning
Work directly with carers and professionals to strengthen the care network around children and young people
Hold a complex therapeutic caseload
Provide practice leadership
Support team development
Contribute to service improvement projects
Offer supervision to support outreach workers
Help shape emerging areas of TESS, including supporting children and young people to move from residential care into foster care, delivering short term and early response interventions to stabilise placements, and offering focused consultation to care networks
Requirements:
Experienced therapeutic practitioner with a strong grounding in trauma, attachment and relational practice
Experience working with children and young people in care and their carers
Confident managing complexity and risk within a social care context
Emerging leadership skills and a desire to support and develop others
Ability to balance direct therapeutic work with wider service responsibilities
Values collaboration, creativity, and reflective practice
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)
Must include a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the competencies required as outlined in the attached person specification