At Sandwell Children’s Trust we strive for excellence to improve the lives of children

To achieve this, we know how important it is to retain and attract high performing, forward thinking and innovative people with all the support they’ll need.

With a culture of collaboration, partnership working and the child at the heart of everything we do, it really is an exciting time at Sandwell Children’s Trust!

Our ‘Family Deal’ brings together our comprehensive offering to you, and our expectations of you.

Attracting and retaining the best to the Sandwell Family

  • From day one, we ensure that you are ready to go with all the equipment and tools you need to do your job through our comprehensive induction programme.
  • We allow you to manage your own diary to balance your work and home life with an extensive range of family friendly policies, hybrid working and flexibility of working hours.
  • We pride ourselves on our Inclusive culture, with regular staff awards, social events, team meetings and reflective supervision.
  • Our workforce is empowered and diverse where everyone has a voice through working groups, employee surveys and whole trust events.
  • Your family is important to our family and all teams have an allocated budget to ensure that your life events are recognised.
  • A sustainable workforce through the regular intake of ASYE’s and apprentices who are supported by our Social Work Academy.
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion are celebrated and embraced, where everyone has the opportunity to be the very best that they can free from prejudice and discrimination.
  • We have a strong corporate social responsibility and bring our staff together through fundraising events.

Developing the organisation with everyone performing to the highest standard

  • We work within a relational, strength based and trauma informed way and practice this with each other.
  • We have innovative workforce practices, underpinned by our framework and standards.
  • We closely monitor workloads to make sure that they are manageable with regular 121’s, practice reviews and personal supervision.
  • Your ICT equipment, processes and software is user friendly and state-of-the-art.
  • Social Work activity is supported by multiple in-house intervention services including family support, multi systemic therapy, play therapists, business support and social care assistants

Promotion and development of individuals

  • All our roles have a well-defined and transparent career progression.
  • Each year, we invest in our future by bringing in up to 40 ASYE’s and apprentices to our established and recognised ‘grow our own’ programme.
  • We have a wide range of wellbeing initiatives including occupational health support and mental health first aiders.

Promotion and development of leaders

  • We have an innovative leadership hub which assures fair, inspirational, visible leadership and great management.
  • We have a fully resourced management structure of permanent employees.

Continuous learning and development

  • We are a true learning organisation providing a comprehensive learning and development offer with protected time for everyone.
  • We take an individual and blended learning approach to your development, which includes a wide range of resources that are tailored to your needs.
  • Your continuous professional development is important, and your progression is reviewed with you through weekly supervision a twice-yearly appraisal.

Pay, rewards, and benefits

  • You will receive a generous local government final salary pension scheme with employer contributions of 20.5% with the options to take flexible / early retirement.
  • We have competitive pay with rates regularly benchmarked to ensure that we are competitive both within the West Midlands region and beyond.
  • Higher than average annual leave, plus additional days for long service recognition and the opportunity to buy up to 10 additional days holiday.
  • Everyone has their birthday off paid!
  • Our employee benefits scheme is comprehensive and includes lease cars, bike scheme, salary sacrifice for new technology and high street discounts.
  • We offer a generous refer a friend scheme of £1500
  • We pay a retention bonus for hard to fill posts payable upon completion of 1, 2 and 3 years of service of £2000, £3000 and £5000.
  • We recognise individual’s loyalty with service awards from 2, 5, 10 and every 5 years onward.
  • We provide competitive expenses for both mileage and subsistence.

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Sandwell Children’s Trust HQ
Wellman Building
Dudley Road
Oldbury
B69 3DL

Our home from home

Set in the centre of Oldbury, the Wellman Building is the home of Sandwell Children’s Trust. Fully air conditioned open office spaces with meeting rooms, workstations and designated chill out areas for when you need some down time.

If you need to come into the office it’s just the right environment to enable you to plug in and get your work done.

We are a short walk from Oldbury Retail Park which has numerous stores including Homebase, Next, Burger King, Sainsburys, Iceland, Greggs, Subway, Wetherspoon’s and McDonalds to name a few.

Ideal location if you need to pop out for a bite to eat or get some shopping done in your lunch break.

You can find more information about the region at Visit Sandwell

Phone

(+44) 121 569 3100

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