Role: Specialist Clinical Practitioner – Therapeutic Fostering and Care Team (TFACT) – Regulated Services and Resources, Children’s & Culture Division

Salary: Grade K: £54,360- £57,495 and zones 2&3 travel card

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Location: LBTH Town Hall, 106 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BJ

About Us

We believe that the best place for children is to be raised within their own families, immediate or wider, wherever it is safe and appropriate to do so. In Tower Hamlets we are committed to building relationships and strengthening families by working with people in a compassionate and understanding way. We are ambitious for Tower Hamlets children and families and endeavour for every child and young person to be healthy, safe and successful.

Tower Hamlets is a progressive, ambitious and diverse place to work. We place children and families at the heart of everything that we do and are relentless in our pursuit of positive outcomes for all. Our Better Together Practice Framework is based on the ideas and concepts which underpin Restorative Practice and draws from other strength-based approaches, such as Systemic and Trauma Informed Practice

Our C-Change approach: Connect, Curious, Community, Co-Produce, Collaborate, Check, sets out “6 Cs ” for our work with children, young people their parents and carers, and each other.

The Role

We are recruiting a Specialist Clinical Practitioner in the Therapeutic Fostering and Care Team (TFACT), within Regulated Services and Resources. We are a small Clinical Psychology led team which sits alongside the Fostering Development Teams (FDT) and the Permanency Assessment and Support Teams (PAST). We are dedicated to working with Tower Hamlets carers and social workers to improve the wellbeing of care experienced children, and children under Special Guardianship orders.

We offer individual therapeutic support to families to improve the relationship between carers and the children in their care, and reduce home breakdown. We also deliver therapeutic, trauma informed groups and training to carers and social workers. Our main therapeutic model is Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) as well as other, trauma informed, models of working.

See attached Job description and Person Specification for more information

Our Offer

We've been working hard to make Tower Hamlets a great place to work. We are committed to developing excellent managers and practitioners and making Tower Hamlets an employer of choice.

If you choose to work with us, you will benefit from:

A competitive salary: Grade K: £54,360- £57,495 and zones 2&3 travel card

Up to 29 days annual leave rising to 33 days with 5 years continual service and 8 bank holidays
Zone 2-3 travel card, season ticket loan
Opportunities to develop your practice, with a clear framework for career development/leadership programme
Good quality, regular, reflective supervision
Manageable caseloads for your team
Enhanced sick pay scheme, maternity/adoption leave pay and maternity support leave
Opportunities for agile/flexible working
Cycle to work scheme/Rent deposit scheme/Access to free eye tests
Discounted gym/Costco membership & You at Work discounts and many others

How to Apply:

Please complete our online application form.

Closing date: 12^th October 2025

Shortlisting: 13^th October 2025

Interviews: 29^th October 2025

If you would like any further information about the role, please contact Dr Rebecca Pons at rebecca.pons@towerhamlets.gov.uk

Additional Details

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the post are guaranteed an interview. Care experience has also been adopted by the Council as an additional protected characteristic.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

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This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

Tower Hamlets Councils are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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