Mobile Support Worker

Wraparound Therapeutic Support Worker

📍 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.