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Children’s IRO
Team: Safeguarding & Review
Location: Manchester
Rate: £40
Details:
The Safeguarding and Review Service are looking for an experienced Social Worker or Team Manager level agency worker to support our service. These posts require five years post qualifying social work experience. Children are at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for someone who is committed to improving outcomes for children through coproduction and strong partnership working. We have vacancies for Child Protection Chairs and well as IRO’s. Essential car user post. Our child led reviews with children are held face to face at the child’s chosen venue. IROs or Cp chair will also visit their children in their homes. Administration tasks can be undertaken in office or home based .
Our work patterns are flexible to meet the needs of children, who are at the heart of everything we do to improve outcomes, We work in co-production and collaboration with children and families and drive effective partnership working.
The role holder is a key member of the Children’s Safeguarding and Review Service,
contributing effectively to the provision and delivery of a high-quality progressive service.
The role holder is responsible for delivering an effective safeguarding and review service for
children in care and children and young people at risk of harm. This includes ensuring timely,
effective, concise minutes with specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and timely plans
for children.
The role holder will ensure that all meetings are held within agreed statutory timescales and
are conducted in a structured and effective way, which ensure that we co-produce with
parents, children and young people and that they are able to contribute effectively.
The role holder will ensure that robust purposeful multi agency plans are produced which are
concise with clear recommendations. Child safety is promoted and that all aspects of care,
development and protection are considered in all meetings.
The role holder will quality assure and evaluate multi agency plans and Cared for Children
reviews to ensure compliance with Care Planning, the IRO Handbook, National Minimum
Standards, Working Together to Safeguarding Children, the local Safeguarding Board Policy
and Procedures.
Key Role Accountabilities:
Effectively chair complex multi-agency child protection meetings, Cared for Children’s
Reviews, analysing risk, and producing SMART plans to safeguard and achieve
permanence for children.
Ensure children are central to the work by facilitating the contribution of children, young
people and parent/carers in complex meetings through effective communication.
Quality assure, challenge and evaluate the effectiveness of child protection and multi agency
plans including timely use of the dispute resolution process to prevent drift or delay in
planning for children and young people.
Effectively resolve conflicts and undertake negotiations with colleagues while maintaining
independence and keeping the child’s interest as the paramount factor in making decisions.
Monitor the performance of the Local Authority to ensure children are receiving the best
service and as a Corporate Parent setting clear outcomes through independent scrutiny and
regular oversight of children’s plan.
Work collaboratively with partners to deliver high quality single agency and multi-agency
training in relation to, Child Protection and Looked After Children.
Work collaboratively with partners, colleagues and stakeholders to develop single agency
and multi-agency policy and procedures.
Work independently to evaluate plans and make appropriate decisions which safeguard
children and promote their welfare.
Personal commitment to continuous self-development and service improvement.
Through personal example, open commitment and clear action, ensure diversity is positively
valued, resulting in equal access and treatment in employment, service delivery and
communications.
Office use: 000A 638E / 1
For more information please contact Carly on 01282 525510 or carlyanne@ashberryrecruitment.com
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