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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.
Job Responsibility:
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
Supervising your team
Attending safeguarding meetings
Delivering direct work
Ensuring efficient, SMARTER working practices
Collaborating with Exploitation and Missing Coordinators
Reporting into Empower U Contextual Safeguarding Hub
Requirements:
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
Must have the correct right-to-work documents to work in the UK
What we offer:
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
Free on-site parking
Free onsite electric car charging ports
Generous local government career average pension scheme
Continuous Service Recognition - employee badge when first joining
Years of Service badge awarded
Full access to internal employee benefits scheme including Occupational Health services, Rewards Schemes, Benefits discounts, Health & Fitness and Personal Wellbeing support