Therapeutic Educational Trainer
Salary: £33,404 - £40,147 – dependent on experience
Reporting to: Therapeutic Training & Support Lead.
Job Type: Maternity cover (Starting December 2025)
Contracted hours: Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week.
Location: Standlake, Oxfordshire.
Part-time hours (3/4 days) would be considered.
This role will be known internally as a Therapeutic Trainer & Outreach Practitioner.
To apply, click on the ‘Apply for this job’. Submit your CV and a covering letter detailing 'why you have chosen to apply for a role at the Mulberry Bush and what skills would you bring?''
About the role:
We’re looking for a Therapeutic Educational Trainer to join our Outreach team and help improve outcomes for vulnerable children, families and communities. You’ll support professionals in education, social care and youth justice to build reflective practice, collaboration and strong leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Support schools and education, with occasional training in youth justice and social care settings.
- Respond to requests for work from settings; arranging and undertaking observations of children / young people and staff teams. These observations will be recorded, and feedback in a reflective manner.
- Work with local authorities and education establishments to support children in the looked-after system.
- Act as an ambassador for The Mulberry Bush and its values
Benefits:
- 40 days’ holiday each year (pro rata)
- A comprehensive range of informal and formal wellbeing support.
- Employer contribution pension of 6%.
- Enhanced parental leave benefits.
- Subsidised meals.
About you
- Experience working with children or families.
- Understanding of how to support children and young people with social, emotional and mental health needs.
- Knowledge of education settings.
- Experience delivering online training programmes.
- Strong communication and critical thinking skills.
- Willingness to undertake further training.
- Flexibility to travel and work outside normal hours when needed.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Legal right to live and work in the UK.
- Hold a UK-qualified teaching status.
About the Mulberry Bush:
The Mulberry Bush is a therapeutic community, registered as a children’s home and a non-maintained residential special school. We also provide therapeutic outreach services to schools and other community-based organisations, along with research and consultancy services. Since 1948, we’ve been helping to transform the lives of children who have experienced trauma with specialist therapeutic services and fulfilling activities.
You're not just part of a team here, you're part of a family. Support echoes through our community, and your colleagues are always there to lend a hand or share a smile.
We believe we offer something special – and we’d love you to be part of it.
The Mulberry Bush is an equal opportunity employer. It is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable people and expects all staff and students to share this commitment.
Apply now:
Apply link: https://mulberrybush.bamboohr.com/careers/68?source=aWQ9OA%3D%3D
If you have any questions about the role or the work we do, please email the HR team at [email protected]
Application timeline:
Closing date for CVs: 21st September 2025
Initial Teams calls: 26th September 2025
Face-to-face interviews: 16th October 2025
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £33,404.00-£40,147.00 per year
Application question(s):
- Do you have the legal right to live and work in the UK?
Work Location: In person
