Salary
£39,152 - £41,771
Contractual hours
37
Basis
Full time
Region
Rotherham
Job category/type
Social Care
Date posted
12/08/2025
Job reference
REQ20932
Directorate: Children & Young People Services
Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two full time therapeutic intervention workers to join the RMBC Empower Service, to work with professionals, carers, children and young people within the Kinship team section of the team. These are two new posts, funded to provide a support service for all Kinship carers and young people, to assess need and where appropriate, commission therapeutic interventions with funding provided by the Adoption Support Fund.
Empower Services provide dedicated specialist therapeutic services to kinship families, children who are cared for by foster carers and also birth families as part of the reunification pathway. The team aims to promote a greater understanding by carers of children’s emotional and developmental health and their attachment and trauma issues. The models used include trauma and attachment based theories such as Thera-play, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, DBT, family therapy and mentalisation to name but a few.
Ideally the candidate will be trained in at least one of these methods, at least to level 1 or the equivalent and be willing to attend further training to enhance their ongoing therapeutic knowledge and understanding.
The post holder will undertake assessments of need, offer support, advice and therapeutic consultations and deliver training. The post holder will develop the support service to Rotherham’s Kinship carers – including close collaboration with our Early Help offer (Rotherham has Kinship navigators within Early Help). Experience is required in assessment, facilitating meetings with professionals/carers and leading therapeutic networks to support placements.
The post holder will undertake assessments of need, offer support, advice and therapeutic consultations and deliver training. The post holder will develop the support service to Rotherham’s Kinship carers – including close collaboration with our Early Help offer (Rotherham has Kinship navigators within Early Help). Experience is required in assessment, facilitating meetings with professionals/carers and leading therapeutic networks to support placements.
Key benefits of working at Rotherham Council’s Children and Young People’s service
We are sure that moving to Rotherham will bring you all the challenges and rewards of working in a busy directorate – in turn for your dedication and drive we will offer you:
- A place on a dynamic and committed team who welcome innovation
- An organisational culture where children are critical to our conversations and decision making – right child right care.
- A strong integrated early help service with mature / established links to social work teams.
- A highly competitive salary and Pension
- Generous annual leave entitlement with work/life balance options which can include flexible working arrangements and some time working from home.
- A highly comprehensive training offer, including professional development and courses to support your growth and personal development.
- Manageable caseloads
For more information on this opportunity please contact [email protected]
Shortlisting Date: 1st September 2025
Interview Date: 9th and 10th September 2025
This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website.
Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).
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