- Pay Rate:
Up to £33.75 per hour PAYE depending on experience
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- ABINGDON, Oxfordshire,
OX14 3JD
Full Job Title: Independent Reviewing Officer – Children's Services
Job Reference: Oxfordshire 5222628
Pay Rate: Up to £33.75 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
SWE registered
To convene and chair Looked After Children reviews and to chair Child Protection Conferences as required by the demands of the service. To both review, and to monitor, a child’s case on an ongoing basis.
- To ensure ‘best practice’, rigour and outstanding care and safety planning for Oxfordshire children.
- To assure the quality of practice within the department. To monitor the performance of the Local Authority’s function as a ‘corporate parent’ and identify and challenge areas of poor practice, and recognise and promote best practice.
- To monitor, facilitate and promote strong inter-agency working, communication and multi-agency Care and Safety Planning.
- To manage administrative and information processes and personnel as required.
- To carry out a range of quality assurance activities, including case auditing.
- To investigate cases which are cause for concern, to include the chairing of disruption meetings, and to provide written reports on areas for concern, and guidance for future learning.
- To provide a specialist consultancy and advice service to staff of the department and other agencies.
- To contribute and drive the development of policy and best practice to service planning and to service planning and development.
- To contribute to, facilitate and deliver specialist departmental and inter-agency training programmes and tools.
- To drive and facilitate the department in developing strong, safe, effective and transparent relationships with other agencies and wider community networks.
- To ensure that services are planned and delivered in a way that maximises participation and reflects children’s rights in relation to the services being provided, and to act on views of children and young people and demonstrate children’s rights and the child’s voice are heard and reflected in all work with children and young people.
- To contribute to, facilitate and deliver specialist departmental and inter-agency training programmes and tools.
“Specific Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Qualifications:
- Professional qualification DipSW, CQSW or equivalent
- Post qualification professional training
- Experience:
- Substantial post qualification fieldwork experience with children and young people
- Working in a multi agency/ disciplinary setting
- Experience of chairing multi agency meetings and/or complex planning/review meetings
- Knowledge:
- Thorough knowledge of all relevant legislation including the Children Act 1989 and Children Act 2004 and government guidance in relation to child protection, children in care and fostering services
- Management of risk
- Assessment Framework in relation to Children’s Services
- Best practice in relation to Children’s Services
- National Minimum Standards and Fostering Regulations 2002 - desirable
- ICT Skills: IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite)
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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:
- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- *** 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.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above – your CV must address the requirements listed
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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