Senior Social Workers

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham Children's Trust Full time
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a new and developing dynamic frontline service within Birmingham Children's Trust.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit.

We actively deliver services that are culturally responsive to the needs of the children, parents and carers we work with to deliver equality, diversity and inclusivity in all we do.


About us


The Complex and Enduring Mental Health Team is focussed on bringing about meaningful change, preventing admission/readmission to Tier 4 mental health services and Safeguarding Children and Young people.

The Children and Young People who we work with have experienced reoccurring mental health crisis and/or Acute mental ill health resulting in Tier 4 admission and detention under the Mental Health Act 1983.

The service is developing an effective model of intervention that is embedding Relational, Systemic Principals and Trauma Informed Practice along with a broader range of tools and perspectives.

The Service is committed to working in partnership with children, families and partner agencies to safeguard; understand the broader mental health issues and intervene to address Social Issues impacting on young people's mental health, recovery and development.

We would like forward thinking social work professionals to join our service to safeguard and protect our children and young people in Birmingham.

The work is varied and challenging and encompasses work with children in need to those children in care and everything in between.

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Lisa Harris, DCSC Assistant Director is excited about the new team and says 'We want like minded passionate social work professionals to join us in our strategic view and mission to be an integral fully involved crucial service to improving all children and young people's lives in our social work practice.

I am dedicated to leading and directing our service as a fundamental core of the overall Trust's overarching improvement plan'.


About you.

  • You will be an experienced safeguarding led Senior Practitioner
  • Ideally you will have a background in child and adolescent complex mental health or have the passion and desire to develop these specialist skills, that can support a culture of
- excellence and good practice in an inclusive environment.

  • You will have a proven track record in safeguarding, and can undertake complex case management and exceptional quality assessments and service delivery in a timely accurate manner, with a relationship based, consistent child centred approach.
  • Confident to implement and case manage creative social work strategies to provide consistent high service delivery and the best possible outcomes
  • Forward thinking vision and dynamic in your approach and social work practice
  • Be prepared to fully safeguard and support the child, young person and their families/carers consistently and over sometimes a long period, be dedicated to improving their lives
  • Be an effective team player, to be able to mentor and support newly qualified social workers, students and family support workers
  • You will be supportive in your approach and promote a strong team environment with a mixed ability social work team and be able to adeptly cover your Team Manager during their absence and leave periods.
  • You will be able to form, develop and maintain strong professional internal and external relationships and engage in multiagency partnership working with education and health, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills on all levels.

We can offer you

  • Guaranteed low caseloads, with a maximum of 8 children at any one time
  • Bespoke training and development package to support high quality practice
  • Career development opportunities
  • Fully supportive and stable highly experienced management team with specialist DCSC skills and knowledge
  • Hybrid remote working model, maximum 2 days per week in office

About we are different as a Trust.


We know and understand that being a social worker is hard work and challenging at times, that's why we reward you with a very attractive employment offer.

Alongside regular supervision, access to training and shared learning, 24/7 mental health and well-being support, you will receive wider range of financial and holistic benefits available including:

  • Attractive pension (19.4% employer's contribution)
  • Generous annual leave package with 29 days leave plus bank holidays, rising to 32 days after
5 years service and 35 days after 10 years service
- £3000 'Golden hello' welcome payment
- £2400 per year Retention payment from day 1 of joining

  • Up to £8000 Relocation payment
  • Car Leasing Scheme

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