Practice Supervisor - Harm Outside The Home

This pivotal role places you at the forefront of the Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) team, leading from the front and making a real difference across ten District and Child in Care Teams. In line with the National Family First Strategy and Birmingham Children’s Trust 25 model, you will manage HOTH practitioners to deliver a robust frontline response to issues like child sexual and criminal exploitation, youth violence, missing persons, and radicalisation. You’ll be working directly with children, families, communities, and multi-agency teams to drive change where it matters most.

As Practice Supervisor, you’ll oversee HOTH Grade 4 practitioners, ensuring their work is trauma-informed, culturally competent, anti-discriminatory, timely and focused on outcomes that matter to children and families. You will be tasked with driving multi-agency and multi-disciplinary efforts to intervene and reduce vulnerability to harm outside the home, working also with community stakeholders to identify effective, timely, and local solutions and support for children and families. This includes raising awareness among social workers, family support workers, youth offending teams, and other partners, enhancing their ability to recognise and respond to risks that originate outside the family environment. Key duties include:

• Providing effective supervision

Overseeing evidence based direct, short-term interventions

Joint visits with lead professionals

Innovative engagement with resistant families

Planning and facilitating group work

Overseeing intelligence sharing and resource allocation

Promoting clear referral pathways

Strengthening community support networks

Disrupting exploitation hotspots through locality assessments

Co-producing effective plans and assessments

Developing clear service/referral criteria

Your varied day will include supervising your team, attending safeguarding meetings, delivering direct work and ensuring efficient, SMARTER working practices. You’ll collaborate with Exploitation and Missing Coordinators and report into Empower U Contextual Safeguarding Hub ensuring cooperative approaches to the disruption of exploiters and factors which facilitate such abuse.

About you:

• Passionate about supporting vulnerable children, families and communities.
• Strong expertise in exploitation and harms occurring outside the home.
• Experienced manager who empowers high‑performing teams and addresses challenges proactively.

Full access to our amazing internal employee benefits scheme including, Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts (including the Blue Light Card), Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support and much more!

We have been rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted, following a 2023 inspection. This is a fantastic achievement for Birmingham Children's Trust, with many positive highlights focusing on areas including the quality of staff leadership, partnership working, safeguarding and corporate parenting.

This is a hybrid role based in Birmingham so you must have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.

Help us to change children and young people’s lives!

At Birmingham Children’s Trust, we are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of over 10,000 children and young people in our city every day. Our mission is to support the most disadvantaged children and young people in Birmingham, ensuring they are safe, happy, and healthy.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Work - be part of a team that makes a real difference in the lives of the city’s most vulnerable children.

Supportive Environment - enjoy a supportive and collaborative work culture where your contributions are valued.

Career Development - benefit from tailored development programs, supportive supervision, and a range of learning opportunities to enhance your skills and advance your career.

Generous Benefits - take advantage of our competitive reward package including generous leave allowance, Local Government pension scheme, and additional benefits.

Our Values

We approach our work with care and compassion, actively listening to the needs of the children and young people we serve. We involve them in the decisions that affect their lives, ensuring their voices are heard and respected.

We are committed to using our resources wisely, ensuring that every penny is spent where it counts the most. We foster collaboration among schools, health professionals, and the police, working together to create a supportive network for our young people.

We believe that when we work as one cohesive team, the children and young people of Birmingham are more likely to thrive. Our unified approach ensures that we provide the best possible support and opportunities for their growth and development.

Join us and together, we can create a brighter future for all.

Safeguarding

At Birmingham Children’s Trust, we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Depending on the role, you may be asked to undergo the appropriate level of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to assess your suitability for working with children and young people.

The level of check (Standard, Enhanced, or Enhanced with Barred List) is determined based on the specific responsibilities of the role and the level of contact with children and young people.

We are committed to the fair treatment of all applicants, including those with criminal records. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of the offence.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the job early should we reach the required number of applications, therefore please ensure you submit your application and supporting statement early to avoid any disappointment.