An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Senior Social Work Assistant to join our Friends and Family team. This is a Senior Social Work Assistant role based in one of the three Kinship Assessment Teams. Our specialist assessment teams are responsible for assessing relatives or friends to care for children & young people, when their own parents are not able to; supporting the Trust’s commitment to the importance for children to remain within their families throughout their childhood. 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. Position Summary: Contacting potential Connected Persons Foster Carers / Special Guardians to introduce yourself/the service and talk through the stage one checks & references required as part of the full kinship assessment. It will also be necessary to be able to give an overview of the assessment process, why this is taking place and what will be expected from applicants. Being confident in using electronic systems (CHARMS, Eclipse, spreadsheets etc) to keep records up to date and be able to communicate with people using a variety of different methods. Working alongside and communicating effectively with Social Workers and other professionals across the Trust including child care social workers, legal representatives, GP’s and the medical advisor. To meet with potential applicants and help them complete paperwork, check ID for the purpose of DBS checks and to ensure people have the correct paperwork and understand the process for requesting a full adult medical with their GP. To support social workers within the service to complete the full kinship assessment; this may include completing one to one sessions with applicants, or supporting with other documentation (i.e. health & safety checklist, safer care agreement, chronologies etc). 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.