Senior Practitioner

Leaders in Care; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 53,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive payment £1,000

Retention bonus £2,400

Relocation allowance up to £8,000

Social Work England registration fee

DBS application fee paid

Annual leave 30 days

Early finish Fridays

Pension and benefits

Salary Sacrifice Car Leasing Scheme

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust is seeking a Senior Social Worker to join the Safeguarding Team. This role offers progression toward management and the chance to advance your specialist practice in a busy environment.

You’ll lead on our relationship-based, trauma-informed model, manage a complex caseload, and provide mentoring and professional support to junior team members and students. Attractive benefits accompany the post.

Qualifications

• Senior Social Worker with safeguarding experience and current registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead on relationship-based, trauma-informed safeguarding practice.
• Manage a complex caseload within the safeguarding team.
• Provide technical and professional expertise to staff and students.
• Mentor and support less experienced social workers as part of supervision.

Skills

Relationship-based practice

Trauma-informed practice

Caseload management

Mentoring

Professional expertise

Job description

Are you on the stepping stone to management or looking to enhance your specialist knowledge in your next Senior Practitioner role?

Birmingham Children's Trust are currently looking for Senior Social Workers to join their ever growing service as a Senior Practitioner. You will have the opportunity to experience every aspect of social work within their Safeguarding Team; therefore allowing you to progress in your social work practice; as well as the opportunity to forge out a managerial career.

As one of our Senior Practitioners, you'll find everything designed to assist you in achieving the most positive outcomes. Because Birmingham are focused on children and young people's safeguarding and wellbeing and nothing else, you'll be free to do the same.

You’ll play a lead role on our relationship-based, trauma informed practice model, managing a complex caseload, providing technical and professional expertise, as well as mentoring and professional support to the rest of the less experienced social work team members and students.

Benefits:

• £45,091 - £53460 per annum
• An incentive payment of£1,000paid in full in your first months' salary (T&C's apply)
• Retention bonus of£2,400per annum paid in monthly instalments(T&C's apply)
• Relocation Allowance of up to£8,000(T&C's apply)
• We pay your Social Work England registration fee
• We pay your DBS application fee and reimburse your update service fee
• A generous annual leave package of30 daysannual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Early finish every Friday!

About the Trust

Birmingham Children's Trust has been rated 'Good' by Ofsted. The report confirms the progress they are making. Birmingham Children's Trust is a great destination for work and career development.

The trust know and understand that being a social worker is hard work and challenging at times, that's why they 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, they offer a wider range of benefits available including :

Additional Benefits

• competitive rewards and pension
• £5000 per annum, Retention payment from day 1
• Salary Sacrifice Car Leasing Scheme;to name a few.