Senior Safeguarding Clerk Safeguarding Children Unit

Seven Resourcing are currently seeking a Senior Safeguarding Clerk to work within Gateshead Council. This is a part time position, and we are paying £15 per hour for this role. 

The role:

To arrange Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences, Secure Reviews, Complex Abuse Meetings and LADO Strategy Meetings by ensuring invitations are distributed to all relevant people within procedural timescales.

Key Responsibilities:

• To arrange Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences, Secure Reviews, Complex Abuse Meetings and LADO Strategy Meetings by ensuring invitations are distributed to all relevant people within procedural timescales.
• To attend (either in person or on-screen dependent upon the requirements for the meeting) Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences, Secure Reviews, Complex Abuse Meetings and LADO Strategy Meetings to minute (using IT equipment) and produce an accurate record of the meeting discussion. To ensure child protection plans and all minutes from meetings are produced and distributed within procedural timescales.
• To ensure accurate performance data is inputted onto Mosaic (IT system) following all Child Protection Conferences, Secure Reviews and LADO Strategy Meetings.
• To maintain appropriate records on the social care database and adhere to national and LA guidance on confidentiality and information-sharing.
• To liaise with all staff in the Safeguarding Children Unit, Care Wellbeing and Learning, external agencies and service users, in order to ensure a high standard of service continues to be provided.
• To assist the Business Support Coordinator in the monitoring of Business Support procedures. To ensure the input and retrieval of information in respect of children who have to a Child Protection Plan or who are in our Care is accurate and up to date to ensure the ongoing provision of a high quality service.
• To maintain and update manual and computerised information systems ensuring information used by the service is accurate and to assist with the auditing of data quality.

Applicant Requirements:

• Qualifications: GCSEs A-C or equivalent including at least English and Maths.
  

  Educated to A Level standard or equivalent experience

• Experience: 2+ years working within a similar role. 
• Compliance: Current Standard DBS check. 
• Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.
• Hours: 37 hours p/w.

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