- Pay Rate:
£11.81 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 12 months
- GATESHEAD,
NE8 1HH
Temporary Safeguarding Clerk x2
Reference no: Gateshead 5878414573898
Pay Rate: £11.81 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: GATESHEAD
2 vacancies 1 full time 1 part time post
Main job role taking minutes of child protection conferences, Required to use a laptop in meetings and updating electronic systems after meeting and distribution of documents to partner agencies. Plus additional admin tasks
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.
- Such other responsibilities allocated which are appropriate to the grade of the post
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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:
Qualifications:
- 5 GCSE’s at Grade C or above or grades (1-9) or equivalent qualification and/or experience
Knowledge:
- Comprehensive working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet systems
Skills & Abilities:
- Effective written and oral communication skills demonstrating a high standard of accuracy
- Excellent IT and typing skills
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