Why would I want to be part of the Birmingham Children’s Trust team and why is it good for my career?

At Birmingham Children’s Trust we are one team with a single unwavering focus – to improve the outcomes for children, young people and families in Birmingham. Whatever your role in the Trust (and there are many) this is your job! We recognise that to achieve this we need the best, most talented, innovative and committed people to join us. You will part of a diverse and vibrant community of professionals who are working in strong, supportive teams, producing ever-improving results. The work is hard, but support for practice is strong. We care about our people and that’s what will make us an Employer of Choice for social workers, children’s services and associated support services.

From an employment perspective, our people enjoy a generous leave allowance, competitive reward packages, pension scheme, flexible working and a range of additional benefits including subsidised travel passes, cycle to work schemes, childcare vouchers, employee assistance and wellbeing programmes and access to discounts at major retailers and lifestyle outlets. Staff in the Trust will enjoy generous terms and conditions, and will benefit from the freedom that comes with being a Trust, independent of the City Council.

We recognise that your career is important to you, it’s important to us too. For career development, Birmingham Children’s Trust is a Learning Organisation where you will have supportive supervision and coaching, regular feedback and appraisal, access to tailored development programmes which focus on our relationship based approach to social work and a range of wider learning and networking opportunities to enhance and develop your skills both personally and professionally. Our size brings opportunities to move around, to develop and to progress. You can develop your career, as a skilled practitioner and as a manager, within the Trust.

Birmingham Children’s Trust aspires to be the best place to practice social work with families, to make a real difference to the lives of the city’s most vulnerable children. Our staff tell us we are getting there!

Our offer:

• 30 days paid annual leave and an additional eight bank holidays. This increases to 33 days after five years’ service and then 35 days after ten years’ service?
  
• Competitive salaries benchmarked against other authorities.


• 30.4% of your salary into the highly rated local government career average pension scheme.


• Generous flexi scheme, where you could accrue extra leave days in a year.


• Employee benefits including subsidised travel passes, childcare vouchers, cycle to work schemes, a confidential Employee Assistance Programme and access to an employee website offering discounts and cash back on hundreds of retailers.


• The quality of life in Britain’s second city is high and our residents are spoilt for choice when it comes to filling their spare time.


• High quality, affordable housing, an excellent transport system and a rich and diverse cultural offering make Birmingham an ideal home.


• One-off, up front Recruitment Incentive for Social Work staff with three years or more post qualification experience.


• Retention payment for our frontline services (e.g. Safeguarding, Children in Care, CASS, No Recourse to Public Funds, Disabled Children’s Service and Adoption & Fostering.)


• Regular reflective supervision

Learning & Development
As part of our joint commitment to both our service users and our social workers, we have developed a learning and development programme that ensures that our employees continue to grow as professionals as well as personally.

Tailored training programmes focus on our relationship based approach to social work and with the support of principal social workers and other senior staff you will continue to learn throughout your time with us. This will be achieved through a variety of opportunities to develop your knowledge and skills both academically and practically.

You will be supported by the Trust as we equip you to build on your experience as a social worker, take accountability for your caseload and exercise increasingly higher quality judgements in situations of increasing complexity.



We offer:
– Knowledge and development of local resource networks
– Opportunities to work towards post-qualifying level awards
– Development of working partnerships with colleagues from a range of organisations
– Annual appraisal
– Flexible, agile working
– Excellent team administrative support

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