Independent Reviewing Officer Contract

Independent Reviewing Officer
Bournemouth
Contract
£40 P/H

We are currently looking for Independent Reviewing Officers to work in Bournemouth.

Main Purpose:

To maintain robust systems for the planning and review of children subject to child
protection plans and children in care by:

• Chairing both child protection conferences and planning meetings
• Chairing statutory child in care reviews
• Chairing reviews of foster carer’s approval
• Contributing to the quality assurance framework
• Being a champion for children
• Participating as a member of the Safeguarding Team
• To contribute to an effective mechanism for child protection conferences and child in need planning meetings within the authority.
• To contribute to the reviewing system for children in care or the reviewing of foster carer approvals.
• To act as a lead on quality assurance and to support the work of senior managers to encourage effective planning for children in care and those subject to child protection plans.
• To lead on or contribute to, as appropriate, the development and dissemination of Policy and procedure for children in care and/or children subject to child protection plans.
• To offer advice to the staff of the Children’s Services and other local agencies in areas for which there is a key responsibility.

Main Responsbilitles:

• It is anticipated that although as a conference and review co-ordinator you will be expected to be able to undertake all of the following, that there may be lead responsibilities in either child protection, children in care or foster carer reviews.

Child Protection

• To chair child protection conferences in line with Pan-Dorset Interagency Procedures and Poole Child Protection Procedures and to facilitate planning meetings as appropriate.
• To offer advice on child protection matters to staff within Children Services and to other agencies working with children.
• To participate, as required, on any of the working groups of the Bournemouth and Poole Local Safeguarding Children Board.
• To monitor the quality of child protection practice within Children’s Services and feedback to staff and managers via appropriate forums.
• To keep informed as to developments and statutory changes in respect of child protection / children in need matters and to disseminate relevant information to the Children’s Services
• To ensure the routine gathering of statistical information in respect of child protection activity locally.
• To analyse local trends and compare with national statistics.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email