📍 West Midlands | Full-Time | Therapeutic Fostering Service
Are you someone who thrives on variety, relationship-building, and making a genuine difference in young people’s lives?
This is not your typical support worker role.
We’re recruiting for a Wraparound Therapeutic Support Worker to join a specialist fostering service delivering trauma-informed support to children and foster families across the West Midlands.
The key part of this role?
You must be confident working in a truly mobile capacity — travelling across the region to different foster homes, supporting young people in a range of environments, and becoming a consistent, trusted presence during the moments that matter most.
One day you could be supporting a young person before school to help regulate emotions and routines. The next, you may be travelling to another placement to assist a foster carer through a difficult transition, support contact arrangements, or help a young person access education or activities. No two days are the same.
This is an incredibly rewarding opportunity for someone who enjoys autonomy, flexibility, and therapeutic relationship-based work.
The Role
You’ll work as part of a supportive therapeutic team, providing practical and emotional support to children and foster carers through:
* Trauma-informed interventions
* Emotional and behavioural support
* Placement stability work
* Educational and transport support
* Community activities and events
* Therapeutic relationship building
* Structured routines and emotional regulation support
The service operates flexibly around the needs of young people, so this role includes:
* Early mornings when required
* After-school support
* Occasional evenings/weekends
* School holiday support patterns
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for individuals who are:
* Passionate about supporting children and young people
* Confident travelling independently across the West Midlands
* Emotionally resilient, adaptable, and calm under pressure
* Comfortable working across multiple foster placements and environments
* Able to build trust quickly with both young people and carers
* Experienced within children’s residential care, fostering, SEMH, education, youth work, or similar settings
Desirable Experience / Qualifications
* NVQ Level 3 in Children & Young People
* Therapeutic parenting, PACE, DDP or trauma-informed training
* Experience supporting children with complex trauma backgrounds
What’s On Offer
* A genuinely therapeutic and supportive team culture
* Flexible working arrangements
* TOIL for additional hours worked
* Ongoing development and reflective supervision
* The opportunity to make a lasting impact on children’s lives every single day
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants more than a static support role and enjoys being out in the community, building meaningful relationships, and helping foster placements succeed
Salary description
£25000.00 - £28000.00 per year