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,...

Our client Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is looking for a Children's - Advanced Practitioner to join their Family Help Team. Workers are on duty every 8 weeks. They are expected in the office one day per week when they are not on duty Solihull is progressing its social care reforms and we are recruiting two Senior Social Workers to join our new Family Help Teams. Our eight teams each include 5 Social Workers, 3 Family Support Workers, 2 Advanced Practitioners and a Team Manager. Duty is every 8 weeks, and a separate Court Team manages all public and private law work. Family Help Teams support children requiring assessments, Child in Need, Early Help or Child Protection plans. We maintain caseloads of 16-20 children, and have stayed committed to low caseloads over the past year. This is why agency workers rarely leave Solihull - and often return. Social workers tell us they come back for the manageable workloads, strong support and the ability to deliver high-quality...