Child Protection Chair

Remedy Social Work; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowsley MBC is seeking a Child Protection Chair to lead safeguarding across the council and partner agencies, ensuring strong governance and compliance with legislation and guidance.

The post involves chairing conferences and reviews, monitoring performance, reporting on service standards, and driving improvement through training and cross-agency collaboration to safeguard children and looked after children.

Responsibilities

• Maintain child protection and looked after children management systems in line with legislation, Department for Education guidance, and local policies.
• Manage allocated resources in a timely, cost-effective and performance-oriented manner and report where services do not meet required standards.
• Monitor the accuracy of information for Children on a Child Protection Plan and Children who are Looked After.
• Chair Child Protection Conferences and Looked After Children Reviews in line with legislation and procedures.
• Conduct audits within Knowsley's Quality Assurance framework and Reg 44 visits to Care Homes as requested.
• Influence and improve standards across agencies through the chairing role and strategic oversight.
• Collect, collate, analyse and report performance management information to meet service needs.
• Personally conduct case reviews/investigations and recommend procedural changes consistent with legislation and best practice.
• Undertake case management reviews under Working Together to Safeguard Children and represent the service on Serious Case Review Panels.
• Collaborate with services and organisations to ensure joined-up safeguarding with a coordinating role on child protection issues.
• Support development of systematic reviews of policies, procedures and practices in relation to safeguarding and looked-after children.
• Represent the Directorate at multi-agency forums and contribute to staff training on safeguarding and looked after children.

Job description

Our client Knowsley MBC is looking for a Child Protection Chair to join their team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the maintenance of the child protection and looked after children management systems, in line with legislative requirements, Department for Education regulation/guidance and the service areas policies and procedures
• Manage allocated resources in a timely, cost effective and performance orientated manner. In particular, be responsible for challenging and reporting on where services do not meet the required standards.
• Monitor the accuracy of the information held regarding Children who are on a Child Protection Plan and Children who are Looked After.
• Conduct Child Protection Conferences and Looked After Children Reviews in line with legislation, Policy and Procedure
• Conduct audits of work as outlined in Knowsley's Quality Assurance and Learning framework and Reg 44 visits to Care Homes where requested.
• Have a significant role in the improvement of standards and quality across agencies through influence the chairing role.
• Participate in the regular collection, collation, analysis and reporting of performance management information which meets the needs of the service area, the wider Council and service users
• Personally conduct case reviews / investigations, recommending changes to procedure and practice in light of experience and in accordance with legislation and best practice
• Undertake individual case management reviews pursuant to Chapter 8, Working Together to Safeguard Children and represent the service on Serious Case Review Panels
• Work with and support other services and organisations to ensure a 'joined up' approach to safeguarding children and take a co-ordinating role where child protection issues arise.
• Support the development of the programme of systematic review of the effectiveness of policies, procedures and practices in relation to child protection and children looked after
• Represent the Directorate at a range of strategic and operational multi agency fora, such as Multi Agency Child Sexual Exploitation Meeting.
• To actively contribute to the design and implementation of staff training programmes associated with Safeguarding and Children Looked After issue on an intra and inter directorate level. Personally undertake and deliver training as required.
• To actively support the work of the Service Manager - Safeguarding Quality Assurance.

Requirements

• Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS.

Equal Opportunity

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.