Senior Social Worker (SSW)


Company:	Wax Recruitment Ltd
Salary:	from £22.51 an hour
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Birmingham, B6 4DU
Working pattern:	Hybrid - 2 days remote
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	21 Sept 2026
Closing date:	21 Oct 2026

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Summary

Job title: Senior Social Worker (SSW)

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: £22.51 per hour

There is an expectation that workers are office based 2 days a week.

Job Purpose

To safeguard and promote the welfare of the most vulnerable children and young people in the City through the delivery of high quality services.

Key Responsibilities

Cases

To be responsible for a complex caseload of children and young people ensuring legislative requirements are met.

Assessment and Interventions

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.

Partnership Working

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

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