Senior Social Work Practitioner - Ascent Team

Wollborg Michelson Personnel Service Inc; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£1,000 incentive payment

Retention payment up to £5,000/yr

30–35 days leave + bank holidays

On-site parking + EV charging

Job summary

Birmingham Children’s Trust is recruiting a senior safeguarding-led social work professional to join a developing frontline service in Birmingham. The role focuses on safeguarding, complex case management and delivering high-quality assessments for children and families.

You will be part of a collaborative team, with hybrid working arrangements, and opportunities to mentor colleagues while maintaining focus on improving outcomes for children and young people.

Qualifications

• Experienced safeguarding-led Senior Practitioner with Social Work qualification and registration.
• Background in child and adolescent complex mental health or willingness to develop these specialist skills.
• Proven track record in safeguarding and complex case management with timely, child-centered assessments.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and support newly qualified social workers and students.
• Cover Team Manager duties during absences and leave periods.
• Engage in multi-agency partnership working with education and health; build strong relationships.

Skills

Safeguarding

Case management

Mentoring

Team leadership

Multi-agency partnership

Education

Social Work degree & registration

Job description

Birmingham Children’s Trust,

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families? If so, Birmingham Children’s Trust wants you!

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a developing dynamic frontline service within Birmingham Children’s Trust.

About us

Ascent (The Complex and Enduring Mental Health Team) is focussed on bringing about meaningful change, preventing admission/readmission to secure 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 Secure mental health service admission and detention under the Mental Health Act 1983.

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

We are 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 are looking for, forward thinking senior 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.

We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection.

This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

About you

• You will be an experienced safeguarding led Senior Practitioner and hold a relevant Social Work qualification and registration.
• 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
• Experience 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 sometimes over a long period of time and 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 multi-agency partnership working with education and health, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills on all levels.
• It is an essential requirement for this role that you have a driving licence and access to a vehicle (mileage and expenses paid) in order to be able to do this role.

Our offer to you

• In addition to the salary offered, there is an incentive payment of £1,000
• Retention payment of up to £5,000 per annum, subject to tax and NI deductions - T&C's will apply.
• A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Free on-site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley). We also provide onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use!
• Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more!
• Full reimbursement of your annual Social Work England registration fee
• Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home.
• Pension Scheme - You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the local government pension scheme.
• 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.

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham and have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.