Independent Reviewing Officer/CP Chair

Sanctuary Personnel; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 54,000; Part time

Job summary

An innovative recruitment agency is seeking a part-time Independent Reviewing Officer/CP Chair to provide leadership and support in complex situations. This role involves critical reasoning, professional decision-making, and risk management, ensuring high-quality practice and adherence to legislation. The position offers the opportunity to work collaboratively with diverse teams and contribute to organizational change. Join a forward-thinking agency that values equality, diversity, and inclusion, and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of social work in your community.

Qualifications

• Registered with Social Work England and knowledgeable in relevant legislation.
• Extensive leadership experience in complex situations.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and support in complex situations.
• Manage a defined team and monitor performance development.
• Promote positive working relationships across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Critical reasoning

Professional decision-making

Risk management

Collaboration

Education

Social work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for an Independent Reviewing Officer/CP Chair to work part-time based in Windsor & Maidenhead.

The salary for this permanent IRO/CP Chair job is up to £53,355 per annum.

Responsibilities:

1. Provide leadership and professional support to colleagues and other professionals in situations of high complexity.
2. Apply extensive knowledge of practice, theory, and legislation to enhance practice, procedures, and policies, promote innovation, and introduce new ways of working from recognised sites of excellence.
3. Make use of sophisticated, critical reasoning and both model and facilitate reflective and evidence-informed practice.
4. Support and encourage professional decision-making in others, to enable assessment procedures to be used discerningly in response to the presenting needs.
5. Maintain and provide expertise in specialist assessment and intervention and support others to develop these skills.
6. Model the effective assessment and management of risk in complex situations, across a range of situations, including positive risk-taking situations.
7. Provide professional leadership on safeguarding issues in collaboration with other senior members of the team.
8. Provide support to resolve concerns about practice.
9. Manage a defined team or area providing clear organisation, direction and development.
10. Provide professional support, advice and/or supervision.
11. Monitor and support the performance management and development of team members using a coaching approach, to support individual development and ensure that individual contributions are maximised.
12. Manage complaints where required, and verify assessments and authorise when appropriate.
13. Promote positive working relationships in and across teams and with partners in statutory, voluntary, and third sector organisations, using strategies for collaboration and arbitration.
14. Contribute to and provide professional leadership of organisational change and development and address performance management issues that arise.
15. Ensure that all staff in the team are adhering to the requirements of data quality legislation.
16. When required, monitor, analyse and manage delegated budgets, funding and resources in accordance with council policies and procedures, or have indirect influence on wider service budget.

Requirements:

1. A social work qualification or equivalent.
2. Understanding of relevant legislation.
3. Social Work England registered.

Contact:

This IRO/CP Chair job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.