Birmingham Children’s Trust is looking for a dedicated and experienced Senior Practitioner to join our Safeguarding Team. This is an exciting opportunity to take on a leadership role in one of the largest and most dynamic children's services in the UK, working to protect and support children and families across Birmingham.
As a Senior Practitioner, you will play a key role in managing complex cases, supporting social workers, and ensuring high-quality practice. You will provide expert guidance, helping to shape decisions that lead to the best outcomes for children at risk. If you are a passionate and experienced safeguarding professional looking for career progression, we would love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a complex caseload, ensuring effective safeguarding interventions and positive outcomes for children.
- Provide mentorship and supervision to less experienced social workers, supporting their development and ensuring best practice.
- Lead on multi-agency safeguarding meetings, case conferences, and court proceedings, offering expert social work input.
- Carry out risk assessments and ensure care planning is effective, child-focused, and in line with statutory requirements.
- Work in partnership with families, schools, health services, and other agencies to provide a holistic approach to safeguarding.
- Contribute to service development, helping to improve and embed high-quality social work practice within the team.
- Qualifications: Degree in Social Work and registration with Social Work England.
- Experience: Substantial post-qualification experience in safeguarding, child protection, and statutory social work.
- Skills: Strong leadership, risk assessment, and decision-making skills.
- Knowledge: In-depth understanding of child protection legislation, safeguarding procedures, and best practices.
- Other Requirements: A commitment to professional development and improving outcomes for children and families.
- Competitive salary and excellent employee benefits.
- Career progression opportunities in one of the UK’s largest children’s services.
- Supportive and collaborative team environment with access to high-quality training.
- Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on 01772 208964 or email me your CV – Christopher.richardson@servicecare.org.uk
If this role isn’t right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £350.
The benefits of working with SCS:
- A specialist dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact.
- Exceptional referral bonuses - £350 per referral placed in to work!
- An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK
- Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.
- Payroll service twice a week.
- Ltd and PAYE payment options available.
- Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.
- Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.
- DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.
