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Senior Social Work Practitioner - Ascent Team
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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 focused on bringing about meaningful change, preventing admission/readmission to secure mental health services, and safeguarding children and young people.
The children and young people we work with have experienced recurring mental health crises 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 Principles, 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.
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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 excellence and good practice in an inclusive environment.
- 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-centered approach.
- Confident to implement and case manage creative social work strategies to provide consistent high-quality service delivery and the best possible outcomes.
- Forward-thinking vision and dynamic in your approach and social work practice.
- 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.
- An effective team player, to be able to mentor and support newly qualified social workers, students, and family support workers.
- 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.
- Ability 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.
- Essential requirement for this role: have a driving license and access to a vehicle (mileage and expenses paid) in order to do this role.
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Our offer to you
- 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.
- 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.
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