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Interim Child Protection Chair (CPC)/Independent Reviewing Officer
Job Ref: Surrey TCL 89726
Pay Rate: £35.10 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6-7 months
City: Surrey
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The purpose of the role is to ensure that within their designated caseload there is a comprehensive care plan for each looked after child (LAC) or child subject to Child Protection concerns that will meet the needs of the child, keep her/him safe, and is effectively implemented within agreed timescales in line with relevant statutory requirements and departmental policies.
Chair a range of key multi-agency planning and review meetings for LAC; children requiring protection and children in need, ensuring that meetings are recorded efficiently and that plans for individual children are appropriate and are progressed efficiently
Key Responsibilities:
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Skills & Experience.
S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please
Interim Child Protection Chair (CPC)/Independent Reviewing Officer
Job Ref: Surrey TCL 89726
Pay Rate: £35.10 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 6-7 months
City: Surrey
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The purpose of the role is to ensure that within their designated caseload there is a comprehensive care plan for each looked after child (LAC) or child subject to Child Protection concerns that will meet the needs of the child, keep her/him safe, and is effectively implemented within agreed timescales in line with relevant statutory requirements and departmental policies.
Chair a range of key multi-agency planning and review meetings for LAC; children requiring protection and children in need, ensuring that meetings are recorded efficiently and that plans for individual children are appropriate and are progressed efficiently
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
- Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory and legislation to enhance practice, procedures and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
- Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
- Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
- Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
- Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk taking situations.
- Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
- Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
- Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
- Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
- Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
- Ensure that all meetings involving children, young people and their families are ‘user focused’ and enable their fullest participation possible, and operate in line with new practice models, including Family Safeguarding, being introduced in Surrey.
- Liaise effectively with operational managers and resolve disagreements or conflicts between themselves and case practitioners effectively and efficiently, alerting and escalating to senior managers issues which cannot be resolved.
- Provide advice and guidance to operational staff on specific case matters, carry out a quality assurance function in relation to departmental and inter-agency casework practice, identifying and following up concerns about practice standards, contributing to case auditing and service reviews as required.
- Record data as required to support the performance management of the service and provide regular reports to a range of management, senior management and governance bodies.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
- Relevant professional qualification and registration where required.
- Professional social work qualification and registered with the HCPC.
Skills & Experience.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Extensive, sophisticated and up to date working knowledge of relevant national and local policy, statutory guidance and legislation in relation to the provision of Health and Social Care services.
- Ability to promote positive working relationships in and across teams, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
- Ability to contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
- Ability to communicate effectively in highly charged, complex or challenging situations to a wide range of audiences for different purposes and at different levels, including public speaking.
- Extensive working knowledge of Child Protection and child care practice, relevant legislation, regulations and guidance including Working Together to Safeguard Children and The IRO Handbook.
- Ability to influence organisational development pro-actively using feedback from your area of responsibility
- Ability to gather information to inform judgement for interventions in more complex situations and in response to challenge.
- Ability to routinely explain professional reasoning, judgements and decisions made and record these in a clear concise way.
- Ability to use knowledge to make complex judgements in uncertain and ambiguous situations, supporting others to do the same.
- Excellent partnership working skills with an ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with partners in statutory, voluntary and third sector organisations.
- Demonstrable experience in successful recruiting, performance managing, coaching and developing staff.
- Good problem solving and analytical skills with the capacity to devise and implement innovative solutions
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please
