Social Work Practice Supervisor - Help And Protection

Remedy Social Work; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Referral bonus

Weekly payroll

Remedy registration required

Job summary

Birmingham Children's Trust is looking for a Social Work Practice Supervisor to join the Help and Protection team. Working with the Team Manager, you will oversee cases, allocate families to Lead Practitioners, and ensure timely, needs-led assessments and support.

With guidance, you will provide reflective supervision, oversee Early Help and Family Assessments, and contribute to family plans. You will chair multi-agency meetings, support a whole-family approach, and maintain child-focused

Responsibilities

• Oversee cases with Team Manager, allocate families to Lead Practitioners, ensure timely, needs-led assessments and support.
• Provide reflective supervision to Lead Practitioners and oversee Early Help, section 17 Family Assessments, and family plans.
• Support Lead Practitioners to implement a whole family approach and complete assessments as required.
• Establish and deliver effective multi-agency Family Help plans and attend multi-agency meetings.
• Chair meetings to implement and review support plans; engage MACPT where concerns arise.
• Prepare and present assessments and reports to conferences, courts and panels as required.
• Promote children's views, education, safety, health and wellbeing in assessments and plans.
• Collect and record information in the social care IT system and safeguard children.

Job description

Our client Birmingham Children's trust is looking for a Social Work Practice Supervisor to join their Help and protection team.

To work with the Team Manager to manage and allocate families to Lead Practitioners, ensuring that children and their families receive good quality needs-led assessments and timely support to meet their needs. Contribute to the overall case management within the team including oversight and escalation.

With guidance from the Team Manager, provide casework oversight to Lead Practitioners, including delivering regular reflective supervision and overseeing targeted Early Help, section 17 Family Assessments, and family plans.

Support Lead Practitioners to take a whole family approach to working with families and undertaking high quality needs-led assessments. Complete or contribute to assessments where required.

Support Lead Practitioners to establish a 'Team Around the Family' (TAFN), to create and deliver effective multi-agency Family Help plans, including providing evidence-based help and support to families. Complete or contribute to plans where required.

Chair multi-agency meetings to implement and review support plans for children and families.

Support Lead Practitioners to facilitate meetings effectively. Engage the multi-agency child protection team (MACPT) where there are concerns about likely or actual significant harm.

Complete visits to children and families alongside or in place of Lead Practitioners.

Prepare and present assessments and reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices as required.

Support Lead Practitioners to build positive relationships with children and young people and promote their education, development, safety, health, and wellbeing.

Ensure that children's views, wishes and feelings are heard and inform their assessments and plans.

Promote Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) to support families to find their own solutions.

Collect, analyse, and accurately record all relevant information using the social care IT system in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements and take appropriate actions to safeguard children.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.
• *Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit