Team Manager

Team Manager – Birmingham Children’s Trust

Birmingham Children’s Trust – Team Manager opportunity in EMPOWER U team (Exploitation and Missing Hub) City Wide Service (12‑18 months fixed term contract for external candidates).

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager in the continued development of the EMPOWER U Team (Exploitation and Missing Hub) Citywide Service. The successful person will need to be an innovative individual, work within the EMPOWER U hub in the areas of child exploitation, missing and wider contextual risks such as Serious Youth Violence and Harm outside the family home.

The successful applicant will take an independent and objective approach; work in an open and transparent way with the ability to challenge partner agencies and advocate on behalf of children, parents, and carers.

In addition, the successful candidate work in partnership with a team of specialist workers and partners; will chair disruption planning meetings and reviews in relation to children exploited, missing and/or involved in serious youth violence. The candidate will work in partnership with the district teams, intelligence analysts and assist with safety planning and decision making in relation to individual and groups of children for whom there are concerns around criminal and/or sexual exploitation and missing.

The individual requires a good understanding of contextual safeguarding. The successful candidate needs to have experience of supervising and leading a team.

• Supervising and leading a team of Exploitation and Missing Coordinators and Missing Support Workers
• Supporting with the development of practice guidance and awareness raising in line with the contextual safeguarding agenda with a focus on supporting children and their families who are at risk of harm beyond their families.
• Writing and analysing performance reports
• Chairing a range of meetings that includes disruption planning meetings, missing meetings, serious youth violence, complex disruption planning meetings and NRM panels
• Promote and manage culture change
• Attend child in care planning meetings (where necessary and appropriate) to support with the care /safety plan and locality assessments in particular when children are being placed or moving placement
• Develop a positive working culture
• Lead by example, by maintaining the highest standards of practice and empowering others to do the same
• May be required to work flexible hours and extended hours which may include weekends.
• Safeguarding scrutiny and oversight of children missing from home and care
• May need to supervise staff/students.
• Deputise in the absence of the Team Managers
• In addition, you will need to possess excellent chairing, analytical, communication and partnership working skills. The successful applicant will be able to ensure effective decisions are made for some of our most vulnerable children who go missing and are at risk of/ are being exploited. The successful applicant will need to work closely with social care services, the police, education, health, voluntary sector, Integrated gang’s team, youth offending services.
• Our organisational focus is underpinned by purposefulness, collaboration, empathy, autonomy, clarity of concerns on the child throughout levels of practice combined with trauma informed practice, trusted relationships and relationship-based practice.

The post holder will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and risk assessment which will also include vetting and barring. The benefits to this post include a good pension scheme and generous holidays, flexible working arrangements, a supportive management team.

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

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Clair Graham Tel: .

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