Child Protection Advisor - Haringey, United Kingdom - Sanctuary Health

Sanctuary Health

Verified Company

Haringey, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Child Protection Advisor to work full time based in Haringey.

The salary for this permanent Child Protection Advisor job is up to £58,102 per annum.

Main duties:

To chair Child Protection Conferences in accordance with current legislation, regulations, statutory guidance, policies and procedures.
To ensure CP Conferences scrutinise assessments, planning and the provision of services to ensure high quality decisions to promote children's best interests and improved outcomes.
To review protection plans with due regard for: The opportunities and strengths that lie within family/friendship networks. The importance of building safety for children in need of protection so that they can live safely with their birth families. The importance of achieving permanence of children and young people who cannot live with their birth families and the damaging impact of drift and delay.
To monitor and evaluate the quality of practice in relation to care and protection using quality assurance methods and systems, providing feedback to managers within the service and CYPS as a whole.
To contribute to CYPS arrangements for audits, quality assurance exercises, systems maintenance, development and individual performance management to ensure high quality decision making, planning and provision of service to continually improve outcomes for children.
To challenge concerns about care and protection planning and decision making for children and young people and formalise unresolved concerns by escalating as necessary.
To ensure the views, wishes and feelings of children/young people are taken into account in the care planning and child protection process whilst ensuring that all children/young people are supported to make a meaningful contribution to their reviews and conferences.
To ensure a written CP Conferences, with a SMART Plan summarising any decisions o recommendations that have been agreed, is produced in a timely manner and distributed to all relevant parties.
To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements of this Child Protection Advisor job:

A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
Understanding of relevant legislation.
Continual professional development.
Social Work England registered.

Contact:

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.