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Senior Practitioner - Mainstream Fostering Assessment Team

Employer
Birmingham Children's Trust
Location
Birmingham, West Midlands
Salary
£35,745 - £43,857 Plus a relocation package of up to £8,000,
Closing date
15 Aug 2021

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Job Sector
Children, Families, Young People
Job Role
Senior Practitioner
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Senior Practitioner - Mainstream Fostering Assessment Team

Employer: Birmingham Children's Trust
Salary: £35,745 - £43,857 (Plus a relocation package of up to £8,000, Incentive Payment of £3,000 and Retention payment of £2,400 per annum paid quarterly. Terms & conditions will apply).
Location: 1 Lancaster Circus, Birmingham
Contract: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time Hours: 36.5 hours.
DBS Check: Enhanced
Closing Date: 15/08/2021 at 12:59
Reference: BCT/21/160244

 

Birmingham Children's Trust

Our vision and focus is to place children and young people at the heart of everything we do and ensure they have positive experiences and outcomes.

Birmingham Children’s Trust Fostering Service has a national and regional presence and is the biggest children’s provider in Europe.

We are seeking to recruit a Senior Practitioner, in our mainstream Fostering Assessment team.

We are looking for professionals who are dynamic and passionate to drive our service forward, to support the Trust in providing consistent high quality fostering placements for our Children and Young People in Care and ensure each child’s wishes are met at every step of the way.

This is a key role and you will be the face of the Trust in your daily routine.  You will have strong skills and experience in positively engaging, communicating and forging professional relationships with children and carers, as well as having in depth understanding of safeguarding, support and regulatory requirements.

You will work towards key targets and KPI’s within your role and confident to be able to present and deliver when recruiting and assessing new foster carers.

About You

You will be a qualified social worker, with active SWE registration.   You will have demonstrable post qualification experience of working with children and young people within the fostering arena. We would welcome applications from the private fostering sector and independent fostering agencies.

You will manage as well as providing technical and professional expertise, mentoring and quality assurance to less experienced colleagues.  You will also support the Team Manager in the day-to-day running of the team.

You will represent the service and lead in externally marketing campaigns and be confident in delivering engaging interactive presentations.

Our Offer and Key Benefits

We offer a supportive and stable team and management environment, with regular supervision, access to CPD training and key resources, mental health and well-being support as well as clear career progression pathways.

This is in addition to the wider range of benefits available which includes:

  • Competitive rewards and attractive pension,
  • Generous annual leave package with 29 days plus bank holidays;
  • ‘Golden Hello’ £3000 initial welcome payment for sw’s with 3yrs post qual experience (T's and C's apply)
  • Retention payment of £2400 per annum when joining paid quarterly in arrears (T's and C's apply)
  • Salary Sacrifice Car Leasing Scheme;to name a few. 

To find out more click HERE

Interviews will take place virtually via MS Teams w/c 23 August 2021.

For informal queries and discussion, please do not hesitate to contact Sandra Paul, Assistant Head of Service Mainstream Fostering: sandra.paul@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk / 07712 436997

How to apply

Please click Apply Online below to complete your application form

Further information on this vacancy

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About the Trust

Who We Are

Birmingham Children’s Trust exists to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the city.

We used to be called Children’s Services and be run by Birmingham City Council. For a long time Birmingham needed to do much more to support disadvantaged children and young people in the city and make sure they were safe. More recent improvements have strengthened the Trust’s provision and that was recognised in the last full Ofsted inspection in December 2018.

We started making some important improvements – listening to and learning from others, improving our social work practice and supporting our staff to do their jobs well.

We became a Children’s Trust in April 2018 to help us accelerate these changes.

Our Trust is owned by, but independent from, Birmingham City Council.

Why is Birmingham Children’s Trust the best place to develop your career?


Our vision and focus

  • To put children and young people at the heart of everything we do.
  • A clear singe focus: to deliver excellent social work and family support with the city’s most vulnerable children, young people and families.

Inspirational, visible leadership and great Management

  • Connected leadership that truly knows it’s workforce, listens, acts and cares.

Stable and permanent workforce

  • A stable, dedicated and committed workforce.
  • Flexible workforce with below-average levels of agency staff.
  • Low staff turnover.

THE TRUST

find out more about Birmingham Children's Trust over at

www.birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk

CONTACT US

CSWRecruitment@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk

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