Practice Supervisor - Harm Outside

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.

• 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.
• Skilled in Multi‑Agency working and locality‑based practice.
• Confident practitioner, coach and trainer.
• Able to create impactful, co‑produced action plans that drive positive outcomes.
• Calm and effective under pressure, acting quickly and with integrity.
• Encourages a culture of professionalism, resilience and ethical practice within the team.

• A generous annual leave package of 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 5 years of service and 35 days after 10 years of service.
• Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme which gives you the chance to drive a brand‑new car for an affordable fixed monthly amount as part of a salary sacrifice initiative. With no deposits or credit checks required a range of all‑inclusive driving packages
• Free on‑site parking at our offices on One Avenue Road (Aston) and Lifford House (Stirchley). We also provide onsite electric car charging ports which are free to use!
• You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Continuous Service Recognition - Thank You employee badge when first joining the Trust. Plus, Years of Service badge awarded for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35+ years of service.
• 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.

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