Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 600+ reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Social Work Child Protection Chair to join a well-established Children’s service based in Barking.
Pay Rate: £42 - £44 per hour
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to fully managed service social work projects (some outside IR35) with high rates of pay, flexible working, support from experienced social work practitioners, accommodation assistance (if applicable), retention bonuses (if applicable) and extensive equipment provided.
- Revalidation/registration renewal based on length of service
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience recruiting to social work roles (public & private sector)
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
- Access to our online careers hub
Duties:
- Chair both Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences to either initiate or review the child protection plans for children who may be suffering or are likely to suffer significant harm
- These conferences will be within statutory timescales, facilitating the full participation of professionals, parents and children and young people, and ensuring the views of children and young people are heard and given due attention
- Chair our new Risk Outside the Home (ROTH) conferences, where children and young people may be vulnerable to risks from extra-familial harm, as well as providing specialist consultation and support to colleagues on a range of issues relating to child protection
- Ensure the provision of an efficient service to children and young people in need of protection, through effective inter-agency working across the child protection system
Requirements of the Child Protection Chair:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- An experienced Child Protection Conference Chair to join our CP Conference Service
- Someone who is committed to effective safeguarding practice across all services and places children and families at the centre of their decisions, and works relationally to achieve positive outcomes for the children we have the privilege to work for
- Someone who can work constructively and creatively with peers, external stakeholders, and the social workers/managers responsible for direct work with the children who are, or maybe subject to statutory child protection plans to safeguard their welfare
- Have extensive experience and a proven track record in working within the child in need and child protection arenas, as well as a very good understanding of supporting and planning for children in our care
- Be proficient in working within the framework of relevant legislation, including the Children Act 1989, Public Law Outline (2014), London Safeguarding procedures, and Working Together 2023 guidelines
- Be able to apply Continuum of Need (Threshold document), CARES practice model and the Practice standards as benchmarks for excellent practice which you will be expecting to see within your work
- Have experience of chairing and managing complex family and multiagency meetings and be able to work with Social Workers, families, and partner agencies in developing complex child protection plans
- Be able to constructively challenge actions and interventions that are not delivering the required outcomes for children and young people against their Child Protection Plan
- Come with a strong sense of duty to protect and promote the welfare of the children needing our care and protection
- Be able to play a key role in contributing to the performance management of the service so as to maintain and promote high practice standards and participate in quality assurance activities such as case audits
Contact:
This Child Protection Chair job is advertised by Jess Ling; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
