Child Protection Chair

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified (Windsor & Maidenhead)
Location : Town Hall, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:45
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £34.00

Child Protection Chair, Independent Reviewing and Quality Assurance duties and responsibilities
About the role
The core activities of the Conference Chair, Independent Reviewing Officer or Local Authority Designated Officer will be to either:
⦁ Chair complex multi-agency and mulit-disciplinary child protection conferences, making decisions about the likelihood of significant harm and ensuring the conference formulates a safe and suitable plan
⦁ Chair review meetings for looked after children, ensuring there is an effective care plan which fully reflects the child’s needs with actions that are consistent with the local authorities legal responsibilities toward the child.
⦁ Offer professional consultation and advice, chair and coordinate complex meetings, and manage allegations against people who work with children in paid employment or in voluntary work.

About you: our role specification

Qualifications
⦁ Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification in social work.
⦁ Active Social Work England registration and proven evidence of continuing professional development.
Skills and experience
⦁ Experience of management within children’s social care.
⦁ Experience of chairing complex multi agency and multi-professional meetings.
⦁ Experience of building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families. Advocating the voices of those we are working with.
⦁ Experience of constructively challenging casework and resolving issues using effective dispute resolution processes.
⦁ Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making.
⦁ Experience of using quality assurance frameworks and systems to monitor and review the effectiveness of services.
⦁ Experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
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⦁ Knowledge of relevant theory that informs practice delivery and statutory legislation (for example Children’s Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services.
⦁ A proven track record as a successful strategic leader within the public sector.