Overview
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Senior Art Psychotherapist
36.5hrs (part time hours would be considered) • Grade D
Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen 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.
We are keen to recruit someone that is interested in joining a team whose area of focus is working with children in care and care experienced young adults. You will work as part of a team to 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. A key part of the role is to offer direct therapeutic support with a focus on improving emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships, in turn, developing emotional stability and personal resilience.
The post holder will join a friendly, supportive, well-established and highly regarded multi-disciplinary team of clinical psychology, systemic family therapy, play therapy, and other therapeutic social workers trained in a variety of models (e.g. DDP, CBT, DBT). A wide range of approaches and models are utilised within the service to best meet the needs of our care experienced children and young adults, and innovative and creative work is encouraged.
We work with children, young people and care experienced young adults who reside in Birmingham and out of the city, from diverse backgrounds. Our workforce represents the diverse families of Birmingham that we support.
Responsibilities include engaging with children and young people referred for support who experience separation and loss, emotional and behavioural difficulties, neurodevelopmental issues, mental health concerns and developmental trauma. Demonstrating teamwork and multi-agency collaboration is crucial.
This is more than a clinical role. It is an opportunity to use art, creativity and relationships to help young people make sense of their stories, strengthen attachments and discover new ways of being in the world.
If you believe that art can reach where words cannot, we would love to hear from you.
We are committed to the arts as a vital therapeutic and developmental resource and actively support clinicians to grow creatively as well as professionally.
What you can expect
* Dedicated art materials budget and access to well-resourced spaces
* Opportunities to develop specialist arts-based approaches (e.g. trauma, attachment, identity, transitions)
* Clinical supervision and reflective practice spaces
* A service culture that values curiosity, innovation and the therapeutic power of creativity
We actively encourage you to bring your whole creative self to the role.
You'll be a HCPC-registered Art Psychotherapist with a recognised postgraduate qualification, experience of supporting trainees and newly qualified art psychotherapists, and a genuine commitment to working with care-experienced children and young adults.
We are looking for therapists to join us who are:
* 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 with children in care, care leavers or family work is highly valued, but we are equally interested in your potential, creativity and values.
We will provide access to training, regular professional supervision, and ongoing support.
If you have experience working with care-experienced young adults and are positive, passionate and committed to making a difference, we would like to hear from you. We are looking for applicants who show interest in evidence-based practice and research and who are keen to develop their knowledge.
If you share our commitment and passion in making a lasting difference for our young adults and can work as part of a team, we would like to hear from you.
In order to be considered for this role please include a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the competencies required as outlined in the attached person specification.
For more information please contact Davinia Burrell, TESS Team Manager for care leavers: Davinia.Burrell@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk; Sherril Duffy, TESS Team Manager for Under 18s Sherril.Duffy@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk or Lee Vince, TESS Head of Service on Lee.Vince@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk
Closing Date: Midday on 5th April 2026
Interview Date: 15th April
Benefits
* Salary - £45,091 - £51,356 per year
* Help us to change children and young people\'s lives!
* Salary range
Additional information
Salary range: £45,091 - £51,356 per year. Safeguarding information: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. DBS checks may be required depending on the role. We reserve the right to close the job early.
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