Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Sanctuary Personnel; Ilford; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Ilford is seeking a full-time Lead Child Protection Practitioner. This role involves ensuring child safety through comprehensive assessments and collaboration with multiple agencies. A Social Work Qualification is required. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £59,646 per annum, promoting equality and diversity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• Applied understanding of child safety and abuse types.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multi-agency settings.
• Experience in overseeing child protection plans.

Responsibilities

• Make decisions following child protection investigations.
• Oversee the delivery of the child protection plan.
• Ensure accurate records of child protection discussions.

Skills

Understanding of child protection

Collaboration with agencies

Analytical skills

Decision-making ability

Education

Social Work Qualification or equivalent

Job description

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Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Lead Child Protection Practitioner to work Full Time based in Redbridge.

The salary for this Lead Child Protection Practitioner job is up to £59,646 per annum.

* Have an applied understanding of what constitutes a child suffering actual or likely significant harm. To consider the severity, duration and frequency of any abuse, degree of threat, coercion, or cruelty, the significance of others in the child's world, including all adults and children in contact with the child.

* Know the limits and strengths of their personal expertise and agency remit. They will work collaboratively and proactively with multi-agency practitioners to build an accurate and comprehensive understanding of a child's daily life and family.

* Responsible for deciding what action to take and how to proceed following the child protection investigation, ensuring decisions are made based on the multi-agency discussions and informed by the voice of the child.

* Consider the evidence presented to a conference, make judgements about the likelihood of a child suffering significant harm in future and decide whether the child is at continuing risk of significant harm.

* Share and analyse in an inter-agency conference the information which has been obtained about the child's developmental needs, and the parents capacity to respond to these needs to ensure the child's safety and promote the child's health and development within the context of the wider family and environment.

* The decision on whether the child will be considered for a child protection conference will be made subject to a child protection plan, giving independent consideration to the professional's views at the meetings.

* Ensure a complete and correct of the discussion and decisions of the child protection conference, including any dissent. The conference chair is accountable for this record's content and its timely distribution.

* Remain the allocated Lead Child Protection Practitioner for the child. Oversee the delivery of the child protection plan by Family Help, ensuring child protection review conference are held promptly.

Requirements of this Lead Child Protection Practitioner job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Lead Child Protection Practitioner job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

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.

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