Child Protection Chair

Job role:
 
The Chair of Conference occupy senior consultancy positions within the Local Authority and carry the main responsibility for quality assurance of fieldwork services by:

• Providing independent chairing of child protection conferences (using a relational strength-based approach) and other complex meetings, ensuring children and families are appropriately involved in decisions.

• Contributing to improved standards and outcomes for children and their families by providing consultation and expert advice, and/or challenge on complex child protection matters to social workers, team managers and all stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.

• Conducting regular audits and or inspections of fieldwork services for children to ensure statutory requirements are met and by making recommendations for action to raise practice standards.

• Contributing to policy and procedure development, and training.

• Maintaining professional independence from the line management of operational services and challenging practice when necessary.

• Supervising Administrative staff in their roles within the Quality Assurance.
• A Child Protection Chair has delegated responsibilities for managing allegations against professionals (LADO).

 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
• An easy registration process (all done online)
• Referral schemes and incentives
• Ongoing compliance managed for you
• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more

If you would like to discuss this role further, please contact Sana.Shah@pprsocialcare.co.uk or 07471306880.