CP Chair

Connect2Kent is a trading style of Commercial Services Kent Ltd; Ashford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The position of Child Protection Chair in Kent requires an authoritative professional to act as Independent Chair at statutory review meetings for Child Protection Conferences, ensuring decisions and recommendations are sound. The post may require stepping in as an Independent Reviewing Officer when needed, and will champion safeguarding and multi-agency collaboration.

Responsibilities include challenging the effectiveness of service decisions, escalate to senior management or external bodies

Qualifications

• Act as Independent Chair at statutory review meetings for Child Protection Conferences.
• Challenge the effectiveness and quality of service decisions where necessary.
• Escalate to senior management or external judicial arenas when appropriate.
• Champion social work values and safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Act as Independent Chair at statutory review meetings for Child Protection Conferences and ensure decisions are sound.
• Escalate to senior management or external bodies when necessary to fulfil an agreed plan.
• Champion safeguarding and multi-agency collaboration to improve outcomes for children in need.
• May step in as Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) if service need dictates.

Job description

As an authoritative professional, the Child protection Chair is required to act as Independent Chair at statutory review meetings for Child Protection Conferences with the accountability for ensuring that the correct decisions and recommendations are made when planning, regulating and providing guidance in the formulation and review of individual plans

To challenge the effectiveness and quality of service decisions where necessary to fulfil an agreed plan and to use statutory powers to escalate to senior management and an external judicial arena where appropriate.

The role is required to champion social work values by contributing to the continuous development and improvement of standards and outcomes for Child protection cases, ensuring high quality social work intervention for those in need of protection. This will be achieved through applying the agreed model of intervention, multi-agency collaboration, and focusing on the wider safeguarding agenda for Kent. Thus ensuring that legislative and statutory obligations, directorate procedures and quality assurance are met and provided and that Kent fulfils its responsibilities as the Corporate Parent. There could also be a requirement in line with service need that the role act as Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) as and when required. Likewise if service need dictates the IRO may be required to step into the role of CP Chair.