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Shorts Breaks Consultant - Children with Disabilities
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Sandwell Children's Trust,
Sandwell Children's Trust - rated as a Good Provider.
At Sandwell Children's Trust, we firmly believe that the voice of the child should be at the centre of everything we do. We are on an ambitious journey to ensure that children and families in Sandwell are safe and empowered to thrive.
Our ‘Sandwell Deal’, brings together our new improved offering that make Sandwell Children’s Trust a great place to work; it also sets out our expectations of you as a member of staff.
What we can offer you:
- Generous annual leave of up to 31 days, plus 5 additional days for long service recognition.
- Your birthday off paid in addition to annual leave entitlement and 8 Bank Holidays, plus a concessionary day at Christmas.
- A generous local government career average pension scheme with employer contributions of 21.6%.
- Recognition of individual loyalty with service awards from 2, 5, 10 and every 5 years onwards.
- Flexible working patterns that suit you and all of our roles have well-defined career progression.
- Competitive expenses for both mileage (55p per mile) and subsistence, plus access to a comprehensive employee benefits scheme.
Please visit The Sandwell Deal via this hyperlink: https://sandwelldeal.co.uk/
Hours: 18.5 per week
Band H SCP 38 - 43 (£49,282 - £54,495 pro rata per year) dependent upon experience
The Children with Disabilities Service are recruiting for a permanent part-time Short Breaks Consultant.
Join Our Short Breaks Hub!
Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of children with severe and profound disabilities? Our Short Breaks Hub is a vital service dedicated to providing exceptional support to children and their families. We work with our partners to ensure that our children can enjoy enriching activities, develop independence, and connect with peers, while families receive much-needed respite.
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As part of our mission, we aim to empower children, young people, and their families through a strengths-based approach, promoting positive outcomes, well-being, and inclusivity. Join our dynamic and supportive team to create lasting impacts!
The Post Holder’s Responsibilities Will Include:
- Leading the Short Break Hub, ensuring that we are providing a consistently high standard of support for our children and families, delivering strong outcomes and ensuring that our children have the right practitioner allocated to deliver their plan.
- Overseeing and Supporting Assessments, which are undertaken by the Family Practitioners to ensure that they build on strengths, child-centred and inform a comprehensive Short Breaks Plans, ensuring the best outcomes for children.
- Supervision and Guidance, to our Family Practitioners which is reflective and ensures that our children’s plans are aligned to their needs and progressing.
- Partnership Working, with our partners in the community, commissioning, health and education to ensure that the right support is in place.
You will need to have:
- Be Social Work Qualified and registered with Social Work England; and willingness and ability to obtain and/or enhance qualifications and training for development in this post.
- Able to demonstrate substantial experience of front-line social work practice including in-depth working experience with children and families and those who have a disability.
- Proven experience of working effectively with children, young people and their families who are assessed as having very complex needs.
- Extensive experience in multi-agency and partnership working and the development of a service.
- Proven ability to mentor and support social workers and able to develop and maintain positive working relationships with peers, supervisees and managers.
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When people join the team at Sandwell they say it feels like they become part of the family…they have #ComeHomeToSandwell. With the work that we have done so far and with the ambitions we have for the future, it’s a really exciting time to join Sandwell Children’s Trust and to become part of our Family.
So, if you think your future could lie with a 'Good ' team, then we’d love to hear from you.
How to apply:
To be considered for this role, please submit your up-to-date CV together with a supporting statement of no more than 1,000 words demonstrating how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the role. Your supporting statement should address the essential criteria outlined in the person specification, providing relevant examples where possible. In order to comply with safer recruitment standards your CV should include a complete employment history, with any gaps clearly explained.
Please submit your application to recruitment_childrenstrust@sandwell.gov.uk
Closing date: midnight on Thursday 27 August 2026
Sandwell Children's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS is required for this position and registration with Social Work England.
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