Principal Officer

Wax Recruitment Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Children’s Trust is seeking a Principal Officer (Child Protection Chair) to chair multi-agency conferences, ensuring safety planning and active child and family involvement.

You will lead a team in delivering consistently high quality practice, with a focus on trauma-informed approaches and proportional risk management, while managing your own workload.

Qualifications

• Extensive post-qualifying social work experience.
• Previous Child Protection Conference chair experience.
• Solid understanding of child protection processes.
• Ability to manage own workload and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Chair multi-agency Child Protection Conferences to safeguard children.
• Lead on safety planning and contribute to improving outcomes for children and families.
• Ensure quality practice and performance through reflective, trauma-informed approaches.
• Engage with families and professionals to build strong, collaborative relationships.

Skills

Social work experience

CP Conference chair

Child protection knowledge

Workload management

Job description

Location: 45 Fordhouse Lane, Stirchley, Birmingham, West Midlands, B30 3BN, Birmingham Children's Trust

Salary: £27.90 per hour

Enhanced DBS Required

This is a full time post, flexibility in office base would be desirable as we are a city wide service, this may require some travel on some days between offices. We chair conferences in person, therefore attendance at the conferencing venues and during duty weeks is required. Some working from home for admin time can be agreed.

Are you looking to build on your social work experience and excel in an inclusive, stable and supportive team environment? Then we will give you the opportunity to achieve this within Birmingham Children’s Trust.

As a Principal Officer (Child Protection Chair), you will be responsible for chairing multi-agency Child Protection Conferences for some of the City’s most vulnerable children and young people, whilst proactively contributing to improving their safety and wellbeing. Our safety planning is underpinned by the Strengthening Families approach, whereby you will ensure that parents and children are enabled to actively engage, and the child’s voice and lived experience is at the heart of safety planning. Participation and co-production are a key element of what we do.

We are a close knit, supportive team. We aim to communicate well with children and parents, building relationships with families and professionals, respectively challenging practitioners where necessary. We have created a learning culture within the team where we all strive to continuously develop professionally, are accountable for our practice and our own development, and open to reflection and feedback. We have experienced and knowledgeable teams across our workforce, access to key resources, specialist social care services, and robust multi-agency partnership working to assist you in achieving the most positive outcomes for children and families. We are focused on children and young people’s safeguarding and wellbeing, and we know that supporting our workforce in developing their skills and expertise is key to achieving our goals.

You will play a lead role in ensuring that we are achieving consistently good quality practice and performance and your decision-making skills will reflect our relationship-based, trauma informed practice model.

About You:-

extensive post qualifying social work experience (required)

previous Child Protection Conference chair experience (required)

sound grasp of child protection processes (required)

able to manage own workload and meet deadlines (required)