Job Details

We are a small, values-led therapeutic fostering agency committed to providing long-term, stable homes for children and young people. Everything we do is grounded in trauma-informed care and built on the principles of DDP and PACE. We work systemically — not just with children, but with their families, foster carers, and wider support networks — to create meaningful, lasting change.

We care deeply about outcomes, relationships, and creating a safe, connected environment for everyone involved in a child’s journey.

As our Therapeutic Practitioner, you’ll be the emotional anchor of our fostering community. You’ll bring clinical insight, relational depth, and trauma-informed understanding to a team committed to healing and growth. Your role is to nurture the nurturers — supporting staff to embed therapeutic principles in their work with foster carers, and offering carers dedicated 1 to 1 spaces for reflection, guidance, and emotional containment.

You’ll help foster carers make sense of the fostering task through a trauma lens — exploring the impact of early adversity on children’s behaviours, and empowering carers to respond with empathy, consistency, and attuned care. You’ll also be a reflective partner to staff, helping them hold complexity, manage emotional labour, and stay grounded in the values of therapeutic fostering.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the emotional climate of a service, influence how therapeutic care is delivered, and cultivate a culture where relationships are central, carers feel truly supported, and children’s healing is possible. If you lead with curiosity, compassion, and clinical clarity — this role will speak to your heart.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Working with Foster Parents

• Facilitate individual therapeutic parenting sessions in carers’ homes and at our offices
• Lead a monthly therapeutic support group for foster carers
• Co-facilitate services for children who foster, supporting their emotional wellbeing
• Deliver trauma-nurture timeline sessions with multi-disciplinary teams
• Provide therapeutic input during Form F assessments, helping assess emotional readiness and relational capacity
• Attend agency events to build trust and connection with carers and families

People are our biggest asset in our organisation. We recognise that the key to providing the highest quality of care is to ensure we have a diverse workforce using their life experiences to give the children and young people a well-rounded right start in life. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the application or recruitment process.  If there are adjustments you would like to request, please contact contactrecruitment@break-charity.org.  We also offer reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

What We’re Looking For:

• A qualification in psychotherapy, counselling, social work, psychology, or related field
• Experience working with children and families impacted by trauma
• A strong understanding of attachment, developmental trauma, and therapeutic parenting approaches
• Confidence in facilitating groups and reflective spaces
• A collaborative spirit and commitment to relational practice
• Flexibility to travel across the service area

It would be great if you also have:

• Registration with Social Work England as a qualified social worker.
• Training or certification in DDP, PACE, or other therapeutic models.
• Experience in leading or working within a therapeutic fostering or specialist service.