Team Manager

Team Manager – EMPOWER U Team (Exploitation and Missing Hub)

Birmingham Children’s Trust

About the role
: A 12‑18 month fixed‑term contract for external candidates, based in Birmingham. The successful candidate will lead the EMPOWER U hub in child exploitation, missing children and related risks including serious youth violence.

• Supervise and lead a team of Exploitation and Missing Coordinators and Missing Support Workers.
• Support development of practice guidance and awareness-raising aligned with contextual safeguarding.
• Write and analyse performance reports.
• Chair disruption‑planning meetings, missing meetings, serious youth violence meetings, complex planning meetings, and NRM panels.
• Promote and manage culture change; develop a positive working culture.
• Attend child‑in‑care planning meetings where appropriate, supporting care/safety plans and locality assessments.
• Maintain highest standards of practice and empower others to do the same.
• Work flexible, extended hours which may include weekends.
• Safeguard scrutiny and oversight of children missing from home or care; may need to supervise staff/students.
• Act as deputy in the absence of a Team Manager.

• Proven experience supervising and leading a team.
• Excellent chairing, analytical, communication and partnership working skills.
• Established knowledge of contextual safeguarding and child exploitation/missing cases.
• Experience working with social care services, police, education, health, voluntary sector and other relevant agencies.
• Ability to work independently, challenge partner agencies and advocate for children, parents and carers.

• Good pension scheme and generous holidays.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Supportive management team.
• Competitive reward package including local government pension scheme and additional benefits.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be in person, taking place the week commencing 26th January 2025.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Clair Graham, Tel: .

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

We reserve the right to close the job early if we reach the required number of applications.