Senior Social Worker (SSW)

Wax Recruitment Ltd; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust is seeking a qualified social worker to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable children and young people. The role requires managing a complex caseload, completing statutory assessments, and coordinating with multi‑agency partners to deliver high‑quality services.

You will contribute to care planning, attend meetings, and ensure documentation is accurate and timely. An emphasis on professional development and accountability is core to this position, with a

Qualifications

• To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people in the City.
• To work with multiagency partners to plan and deliver services.
• Effective communication with diverse audiences and partners.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirements are met.
• Collect, record and analyse information to fulfil statutory responsibilities for safeguarding.
• Analyse information to complete assessments and ensure the wellbeing and safety of children.
• Plan for children in need of protection or in care with multi‑agency partners.
• Implement, monitor and review plans in multi‑agency meetings to meet needs.
• Liaise with professionals to join up services and achieve optimal outcomes.
• Accurately record, report and communicate using up‑to‑date evidence in line with requirements.
• Prepare and present reports to conferences, courts and panels.
• Engage in ongoing professional development and reflective practice.

Job description

Location: One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B6 4DU, Birmingham Children's Trust

Salary: £22.51 per hour

There is an expectation that workers are office based 2 days a week.

b Purpose

To safeguard and promote the welfare of the most vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high quality services.

Key Responsibilities

• 1. To be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirements are met.

Assessment and Interventions

• 1. To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all relevant information and take appropriate actions to fulfil statutory responsibilities to promote and safeguard the well‑being and interests of the child/young people.
• 1. To ensure the well‑being and safety of the child/young person is paramount through analysing all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
• 1. To create and plan for children in need of protection and children in care involving multi agency partners according to need.
• 1. To implement, monitor and review within multi-agency meetings, children's plans to ensure needs are being met.
• 1. Ensure that meetings are proactive and timely; and meet the child's/young person's needs, wishes and feelings.

Partnership Working

• 1. Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people; and ensure that services are ‘joined up’ in approach.

Case Recording & Report Writing

• 1. To accurately record, report and communicate using accurate, up‑to‑date evidence based information in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
• 1. To communicate effectively to a variety of audiences through written, verbal and other means of communication.
• 1. To prepare and present reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices.

Professional Development & Accountability

• 2.11 To establish skills, knowledge and experience to enhance working practices in accordance with the College of Social Work ASYE Year 1 programme, Professional Capability Framework and the Social Work Engalnd’s Code of Practice for Social Workers.
• 2.12 To take personal responsibility for your own professional development and reflective practice and keep up‑to‑date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice development.
• 2.13 To work as a team member and attend team meetings and service reviews to positively contribute to the outcomes for children achieved as a team.
• 2.14 Actively support the Team Manager by undertaking any other duties commensurate with the job or needs of the service.