Senior Social Workers - Citywide Pre-Birth Service

Social Worker & Senior Social Worker– Citywide pre-birth serviceSalary up to £53,474 (salary includes retention payment of £5,000 per annum) Plus we offer an incentive payment of £1,000 for those with 3 years+ experience (subject to Tax & NI deductions) & a relocation package of up to £8,000  (Terms and Conditions will apply)There has never been a more exciting time to join Birmingham Children’s Trust as we celebrate our GOOD Ofsted status which we are immensely proud of. Birmingham Children’s Trust is going from strength to strength. We are the largest provider of family support and social care services for children, young people and families in the country. Our goal is to become a centre of excellence in both social care and family support. By choosing to work for us, you will be part of a supportive, dynamic service contributing to our service improvement journey to ‘Outstanding’.Our size means it is possible to develop your entire social work career in the Trust, thus allowing you to build on your current experience and progress in your social work practice and develop specialist skills.Birmingham Children’s Trust are seeking to recruit passionate, driven individuals to join our pre-birth service. The social worker roles are city wide across our three localities, South, East and NWC. The successful candidate will be based within their teams at either Lifford/St Thomas/The Avenue.Your work family will consist of a Team Manager, a Senior Practitioner, 6 Social Workers, a Senior Social Work Assistant and Business Support Officer. The Social Workers withi
n our pre-birth teams hold a reduced workload in order that they are to provide a robust, effective, multi-disciplinary response to parents at the earliest point within their pregnancy.Working relationally with parents, extended families, internal and external partners and utilising a trauma-informed approach is at the heart of this initiative. Within the Trust, we can draw upon an extensive internal resource network to support the work of these teams, including Breaking the Cycle, Family Group Conferencing, Safer Families and Families Together. This joint working seeks to provide our parents and families with the optimum opportunity to make sustained positive changes in their lives and for their unborn children.As a Trust, we are committed to practising in an evidence-informed perspective. The pre-birth teams were developed using the learning from the “Born Into Care” research project and this will now be strengthened through our participation in the Research in Practice Pre-birth Change Project 2023 and ISAFE (Engaging Fathers) Research Project.Join us and you will be able to ‘do the job you came into social work to do’.   We are an independent organisation, which enables us to focus, single-mindedly on the safety and welfare of children and young people across the city.  As well as focusing on your welfare and wellbeing too.Our vision is to build a Trust that provides excellent social work and family support for and with the city’s most vulnerable children, young people and families.About you….You will be a passionate, motivated and committed Senior Social Worker who has completed their ASYE and has core and valuable previous experience within Children Services.You will be able to build effective relationships, carry out in-depth assessments, be confident in partnership working with children, families and professionals, enabling their full participation in assessment, planning, review and decision making. You wil
l be able to work independently and be a key team player and be able to support less experienced Social Workers and students in your team.You must hold a recognised social work qualification and have current active registration with Social Work England.About Us…..why we are different as a Trust….We know and understand that being a social worker is hard work and challenging at times, that’s why we reward you with a very attractive employment offer and excellent benefits.Alongside regular supervision, access to training and shared learning, mental health and well-being support, we offer a wider range of benefits available including competitive rewards and pension, a generous annual leave package with 30 days leave plus bank holidays; ‘Golden hello’, Retention payment from day 1 of joining for first two years of service and our recently launched Salary Sacrifice Car Leasing Scheme; to name a few.  To find out more click HEREIf you would like to be part of our passionate and dedicated social work team and are committed to continuous improvement, then don’t hesitate and apply today. If you are interested in this role and would like to have an informal conversation, please contact Stuart Lowe Head of Service on 07548 71 30 21.You must have completed your ASYE to apply for this vacancy. Interviews will be held face to face at One Avenue Road on the 7th May 2024We 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.We actively deliver services that are culturally responsive to the needs of the children, parents and carers we work with to deliver equality, diversity and inclusivity in all we do.