Children's Independent Reviewing Officer - CP

Our client Rochdale Borough council is looking for a Children's Independent Reviewing Officer to join their Child protection team.

PURPOSE AND OBJECTS OF THE JOB

• To ensure a high quality conferencing and reviewing service for children whose welfare needs to be safeguarded. These children and young people will include children in need of a protection plan and Looked after Children.
• To promote the improvement and development of services to children and their families by contributing to a quality assurance strategy that facilitates continuous improvement through the effective and efficient use of the Targeted Service's resources.

Principal Duties

Looked After Reviews

• To quality assure the care planning processes for looked after children in line with the care planning regulations 2010 through the chairing and reporting of looked after children reviews
• To discharge the IRO duties in line with the IRO Handbook 2010
• To ensure practice standards in relation to the coordination and chairing of looked after reviews are adhered to in line with council policy
• To ensure that children and young people are engaged in their reviews through meeting with children and engaging with them within the review process including meeting children outside of their review meeting

Child Protection Conferences

• To chair child protection conferences and reviews and ensure minutes are produced in line with agreed timeframes.
• To ensure the quality assurance of child protection conferences in line with RBSCB procedures and Working Together 2013
• To use the RBSCB escalation policy across the partnership to ensure child protection planning is robust and effective
• To contribute to the effectiveness of the RBSCB through attendance and contribution at sub groups and training as appropriate
• To ensure families including children are engaged and contribute to the child protection process. Ensuring that children wishes and feelings are evident and accounted for in the child protection process
• To contribute to the reporting on child protection activity through the collation of performance indicators and quality assurance processes.

Secondary Duties

• To co-operate in the effective implementation of Child Care and Council policies for staff care, in particular:

• Participate in regular, structured formal supervision
• The identification of your own development and training needs
• The identification of team issues

• To ensure that Rochdale MBC's commitment to public service and customer care is addressed in all dealing with the public, and service users and their representatives, including undertaking investigation of representatives and complaints.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

*Terms & Conditions apply

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Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.