Senior Therapeutic Lead

**Job title Wellness through the Wilderness Senior Therapeutic Lead - Split post **(8 hour delivery on Alternative Provision)

**Project **Rewire

**Department/Section **Children, Young People and Families

**Contracted Part-time Post **20 hours a week in total, 39 weeks of the year

12 hours a week, 39 weeks of the year (includes weekend work)

Additional 8 hours per week, 39 weeks of the year delivering Alternative Provision interventions

**Duration **2-year contract

**Salary **£19.07ph

**Delivery Location **Sandwell & South Staffordshire

**Main purposes of job**
- To develop and implement therapeutic nature-based interventions, responding to the needs of children and young people referred into the Rewire provision, working in partnership with families and other community, educational and voluntary bodies within the

Sandwell borough.
- Additional 8-hour post to implement programmes that respond to the needs of children and young people referred to Breathing

Space service working in partnership with families and other community, educational and voluntary bodies to deliver our Alternative

Provision to young people identified as having SEMH needs.

**Key tasks/Core Job Requirements.**
- To assess the needs of the children and young people engaging in the project.
- To plan, implement and review programmes for children/young people based on an assessment of their individual and group needs.
- To work with children/young people/carers/families in a variety of ways, alongside other project facilitators.
- To design lessons that utilise nature and the outdoors as a therapeutic tool of engagement.
- Ensure high standards of project delivery and engagement.
- To liaise effectively with families and other statutory, community and voluntary bodies and to attend and contribute to reviews and case conferences as required.
- To work in partnership with other Breathing Space services to best meet the needs of children and young people by collaborating resources with planned interventions targeting groups/families of shared need.
- To keep regular records in relation to all aspects of work and prepare reports as required.
- To be vigilant for signs of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, neglect, and any concerns regarding the welfare of children. To record concerns promptly and accurately. To consult with the Designated Safeguarding Lead and take appropriate action in accord
- ance with Breathing Space Safeguarding policy.
- To gather information statistics and prepare reports as required, including administration of databases as appropriate to the role.
- To identify and document to line manager any unmet needs of children/young people within the service and to participate in the ad
- vocacy work of the agency.

**Requirements specific to this role**
- To assess the needs of children and young people referred into the targeted service and devise and deliver intervention support plans for children and young people based on this assessment.
- To have a good knowledge and awareness of how to incorporate nature, heritage, and conservation as a therapeutic tool of engage
- ment.
- To develop integrated service responses in partnership with other agencies/organisations working to meet the needs of the children and young people referred to the service.
- To maintain an overview of relevant services available to make and support referrals to other services, as appropriate.
- To promote and advocate on behalf of the target group in order to minimise stigma and exclusion within the local community.

**Requirements of all Breathing Space staff**
- Commitment to the purpose of Breathing Space and to work within the values, policies, and procedures of the organisation and in the context of current legislation and regulations.
- To participate in regular supervision with your line manager.
- To actively participate in team and staff meetings and service reviews/ evaluations and to contribute to the development of policy and practice with your area of work and within Breathing Space as a whole
- To report any area of concern to your line manager in a timely manner.
- To show reasonable flexibility in relation to hours of attendance to meet the needs of the work. Work during unsocial hours may be required.
- Have a flexible approach to the work in response to organisational change, development, and review of best practice.
- Participate in and engage with a performance management programme.
- Identify training needs with your line manager and participate in training opportunities appropriate to the role.
- To be vigilant to any Health, Safety and Welfare risks in the workplace and bring any concerns to the attention of your line manager or Health & Safety Officer.
- To be vigilant to any concerns regarding the protection and welfare of children and to bring them to the attention of the Breathing

Space Designated Safeguarding Lead in a timely manner, in keeping with the Breathing Space Child Protection Policies.
- To partici