Harm Outside Practitioners

About The Role

Are you passionate about protecting vulnerable children and leading innovative safeguarding strategies?

Join Birmingham Children's Trust as one of our HOTH Practitioners under the Head of Service for Contextual Safeguarding and make a real difference in the lives of children and families across our city.

As a HOTH Practitioner, you will strengthen the Trust's focus on safeguarding children at risk of exploitation, harm, and violence beyond the home environment. You will develop and implement district-based, exploitation-focused strategies, working collaboratively with the Empower U hub and a wide range of partners to address risks in the community.

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 reside within a suitable commutable distance around Birmingham and have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK. Sadly, we do not support those who require sponsorship.

• Lead and coordinate Team Around the Family (TAF) meetings, working with families and partner agencies to develop outcome-focused plans for change.
• Undertake joint work, interventions, and visits within districts where concerns relate to harm outside of the family home.
• Provide expertise, guidance, and local training on exploitation, raising awareness and delivering briefings on localised concerns.
• Collaborate with children, families, and partner organisations to develop, execute, and evaluate plans that improve outcomes.
• Maintain accurate records of all interventions, meetings, and interactions.
• Gather and coordinate intelligence to support interventions, disrupt perpetrators, and protect children.
• Build positive relationships with individuals, groups, and communities affected by exploitation, even where there is resistance.
• Conduct locality assessments and recommend evidence-based interventions to address identified issues.
• Maximise impact by engaging with schools, youth services, police, social care, and early help teams, including joint visits and coordinated outreach.
• Support the creation of community profiles to identify protective factors, enhance partnerships, and build local resilience.
• Conduct community walkabouts to foster relationships with children, parents, carers, residents, and local organisations.

• A passion for safeguarding children harmed outside of the family home.
• A strategic leader with substantial experience in safeguarding, exploitation, and multi-agency partnership working.
• Trauma-informed and culturally competent approach.
• Proven ability to drive service improvement and deliver positive outcomes for children and families.

Please note as part of our onboarding process, the successful candidate will be required undergo a series of background checks with Experian including Experian DBS, Experian Right to Work, and Digital . These are essential pre-employment requirements.

• 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.
• 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!
• 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!
• Flexible and hybrid working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home and we offer a variety of working patterns.
• Pension Scheme - You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme in line with the local government pension scheme.

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