Health Safe Behaviour Team (HSB)

Grade 5

HSB Clinical Practitioner (Practitioner Psychologist / Senior Social Worker)

4 posts

3x permanent / full time at 36.5hrs

1x fixed term 12 months full time at 36.5hrs (review at 12 months)

An exciting opportunity has arisenfor experienced psychologists and social workers who are keen to support children and young people who display sexually harmful behaviour, to join our Healthy Safe Behaviours team (HSB). We are keen to invite those with a clinical or forensic psychology qualification and senior social workers to join our developing team.

The HSB team sits alongside the Therapeutic Emotional Support Service (TESS) delivering consultation, assessment, intervention and support to children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour between the ages of 7-17 years.

The HSB team adopts a relational and systemic approach and delivers bespoke and tailored interventions and programmes of education and support to children, young people and their parents and caregivers, regarding harmful sexualised behaviours. The team has recently gone through a period of transition and review to ensure we continue to align with best practice and evidence-based approaches to service delivery, making this an exciting time to join our team.

The HSB team works collaboratively with our partner agencies forming close working arrangements with the wider Birmingham Children’s Trust Early Help support network, Child in Needs teams, Safeguarding and Children in Care services, Birmingham Youth Justice Service, Police, and our local CAMHS service known as Forward Thinking Birmingham.

The team is currently comprised of a Team Manager and two Aim 3 Practitioners. We are looking to recruit 4 additional team members from a social work and applied practitioner psychology background, who can demonstrate their experience and skills in understanding vulnerable children, young people and their families and supporting them to respond to and manage risk of harmful sexualised behaviour and to make positive changes towards healthy, safe behaviour.

1 short-term 12-month contract post will have a focus on support to our Early Help network offering consultation, advice, and guidance to Early Help colleagues, including support to children, young people and their families. This post will be subject to a continued review.

Successful applicants will be joining an organisation and service committed to continuous improvement, striving to deliver excellence and embracing best practice, innovation, creativity and research.

We are looking for candidates with passion, motivation and enthusiasm to:

• deliver a high-quality service to children, families, caregivers and victims of harmful sexualised behaviour.
• with both the experience and skills matched to the relevant job description and person specification.
• have a desire to work with and alongside others, to learn, innovate and deliver improvements.
• an individual who can work independently and as part of a team.
• with a desire to work directly with children, young people and their families who have experienced significant adversity and traumatic experiences.
• are an individual who has experience of working alongside children who display harmful sexualised behaviours. We will provide you with access to training, regular professional supervision, and on-going support.

If you have experience of working with children and young people, and their families and caregivers where harmful sexualised behaviour is evident, and you are positive, passionate and committed to making a difference and enjoy the challenge this brings, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate an interest in evidence-based practice and research and who are keen to develop their knowledge and skills within this specialism.

If you share our commitment and passion in making a lasting difference for vulnerable children and young people and can work as part of a team, we would like to hear from you.

To be considered for this role please include a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the competencies required as outlined in the attached person specification.

For more information, please contact Lucia Malin, HSB Team ManagerLucia.Malin@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.ukor Lee Vince, TESS & HSB Head of ServiceLee.Vince@birminghamchildrenstrust.co.uk

Closing date: midnight 17^thAugust 2025

Interviews will take place on: 9^th& 10^thSeptember 2025

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.