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
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