Senior Practitioner (SP)
| Company: | Wax Recruitment Ltd |
|---|---|
| Salary: | from £24.51 an hour |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Birmingham, B6 4DU |
| Working pattern: | Hybrid - 2 days remote |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Posting date: | 14 Sept 2026 |
| Closing date: | 14 Oct 2026 |
Summary
Job title: Senior Practitioner (SP)
Job Category: Social Care Qualified
Location: One Avenue Road, Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B6 4DU, Birmingham Children's Trust
Hours per week 36.50
Salary: £24.51 per hour
at least 2 days in the office
We are Birmingham Children’s Trust.
‘Working Together to make Birmingham the greatest city to grow up in.’
The sole purpose of Birmingham Children’s Trust is to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the city, by driving up the quality of practice and partnerships across the city and its services.
Every employee from Family Support and Social Workers to Finance and Legal, work together to make a positive difference to children, young people and families. We are one team, and each have an important role to play in achieving the Trusts objectives.
Birmingham Children’s Trust Leadership team comprises of six Executive Directors who are responsible for leading and managing the Trust to be an autonomous and high performing organisation.
Our Vision:
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.
We will do this:
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with compassion and with care.
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through positive relationships, building on strengths.
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in collaboration with children, young people, families and partners.
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by listening, involving and including.
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in ways that are efficient and deliver value for money.
Success will mean significant progress towards these outcomes:
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healthy, happy, resilient children living in families.
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families able to make positive changes.
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children able to attend, learn and achieve at school.
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young people ready for and contributing to adult life.
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children and young people safe from harm.
Our Values:
ONE TEAM
ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
QUALITY AND INNOVATION
RELATIONSHIPS
HIGH SUPPORT HIGH CHALLENGE
Key Responsibilities
• To safeguard and promote the welfare of the most vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high quality services.
• To be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative re-quirements are met.
• To collect, accurately record, using management information systems, and critically analyse all relevant information and take appropriate actions to fulfil statutory responsibilities to promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of the child/young people.
• To ensure the well-being and safety of the child/young person is paramount through analysing all necessary information to complete assessments that comply with statutory requirements.
• To create and plan for children in need of protection and children in care involving multi agency partners according to need.
• To implement, monitor and review within multi-agency meetings, children's plans to ensure needs are being met.
• Ensure that meetings are proactive and timely; and meet the child's/young person's needs, wishes and feelings.
• Liaise and work with other professionals and agencies to achieve optimal outcomes for children and young people; and ensure that services are ‘joined up’ in approach.
• To accurately record, report and communicate using accurate, up-to-date evidence based infor-mation in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements.
• To communicate effectively to a variety of audiences through written, verbal and other means of communication
• To prepare and present reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices
• To establish skills, knowledge and experience to enhance working practices in accordance with the College of Social Work ASYE Year 1 programme, Professional Capability Framework and the Social Work England’s Code of Practice for Social Workers
• To take personal responsibility for your own professional development and reflective practice and keep up-to-date with changes to legislation, court rules, policies, procedures and best practice de-velopment