Social Work Practice Supervisor - Help and protection

Our client Birmingham Children's trust is looking for a Social Work Practice Supervisor to join their Help and protection team.

To work with the Team Manager to manage and allocate families to Lead Practitioners, ensuring that children and their families receive good quality needs-led assessments and timely support to meet their needs. Contribute to the overall case management within the team including oversight and escalation.

With guidance from the Team Manager, provide casework oversight to Lead Practitioners, including delivering regular reflective supervision and overseeing targeted Early Help, section 17 Family Assessments, and family plans. Support Lead Practitioners to take a whole family approach to working with families and undertaking high quality needs-led assessments. Complete or contribute to assessments where required. Support Lead Practitioners to establish a 'Team Around the Family' (TAFN), to create and deliver effective multi-agency Family Help plans, including providing evidence-based help and support to families. Complete or contribute to plans where required. Chair multi-agency meetings to implement and review support plans for children and families. Support Lead Practitioners to facilitate meetings effectively. Engage the multi-agency child protection team (MACPT) where there are concerns about likely or actual significant harm. Complete visits to children and families alongside or in place of Lead Practitioners. Prepare and present assessments and reports to conferences, courts and panels in accordance with statutory procedures and practices as required. Support Lead Practitioners to build positive relationships with children and young people and promote their education, development, safety, health, and wellbeing. Ensure that children's views, wishes and feelings are heard and inform their assessments and plans. Promote Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) to support families to find their own solutions. Collect, analyse, and accurately record all relevant information using the social care IT system in accordance with statutory and organisational requirements and take appropriate actions to safeguard children.

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Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit