Children Protection Advisor

Ealing Council; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in the UK is offering an exciting opportunity for a Child Protection Advisor to chair Child Protection Conferences and provide expert safeguarding advice. The role involves working closely with agency partners to manage risk and improve practices within a diverse community. The ideal candidate will have sound safeguarding knowledge and experience, and will be expected to facilitate face-to-face meetings in the office.

Qualifications

• Experience in child protection and safeguarding.
• Ability to work with multi-agency partners.
• Competence in chairing meetings and providing advice.

Responsibilities

• Chair Child Protection Conferences and provide oversight.
• Deliver safeguarding advice to practitioners.
• Support the involvement of young people in meetings.
• Contribute to risk analysis and decisions in multi-partner meetings.
• Develop and oversee safeguarding plans.
• Facilitate face-to-face Initial Child Protection Conferences.
• Enhance a family-centred, child-focused approach.

Skills

Knowledge of safeguarding

Facilitation skills

Analysis and decision making

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity in the Child Protection Conference team as a Child Protection Advisor.

As an Ealing Child Protection Advisor, you will chair Child Protection Conferences, and you will have a unique oversight role for the child protection developed at the meetings you chair. You will provide safeguarding advice to practitioners. You will have a responsibility to monitor, support and to improve practice and be a child-focused practitioner, who is keen to develop young people's involvement in their own meetings, and to support them to take part in planning.

You will be working with agency partners, bringing them together to contribute to analysis and decision making around risk, and managing the different perspectives brought by different disciplines and individuals to multi-partner meetings. Your experience and sound knowledge of safeguarding, thresholds, and safeguarding processes will make you a safe pair of hands to develop and oversee safeguarding plans in Ealing. Initial Child Protection Conferences in Ealing take place face to face. This means you will be in the office in order to facilitate them.

The Ealing borough is a diverse multicultural borough and thus there is a strong ethos within the team to imbed cultural awareness and diversity within our daily work and interactions with children and their families. The candidate must be passionate about delivering a family centred service which is child focused, whilst carrying out supportive and safeguarding statutory duties in line with current legation and PAN London guidance.

The candidate will report directly to the Safeguarding Manager. You can expect to receive support from your manager to help you to grow and develop in the role.

If you believe you have the required experience, skills, and abilities to exceed in either of these roles, we would like to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Chair Child Protection Conferences and oversee the child protection developed at the meetings you chair.
• Provide safeguarding advice to practitioners.
• Monitor, support and improve practice; develop young people’s involvement in their own meetings and support them to take part in planning.
• Work with agency partners to contribute to analysis and decision making around risk; manage perspectives from different disciplines and individuals in multi-partner meetings.
• Use experience and knowledge of safeguarding, thresholds, and safeguarding processes to develop and oversee safeguarding plans in Ealing.
• Facilitate Initial Child Protection Conferences (face to face) in Ealing by being in the office.
• Support a family centred, child focused approach while carrying out safeguarding statutory duties in line with current legation and PAN London guidance.
• Report directly to the Safeguarding Manager and engage with managerial support for growth and development in the role.

Qualifications and requirements

• Experience and sound knowledge of safeguarding, thresholds, and safeguarding processes.