Independent Reviewing Officer/safeguarding

6 days ago

Hounslow, Greater London, United Kingdom London Borough of Hounslow Full time
Job description

About us at Hounslow


We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough.

With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs.

Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.

About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion


We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock.

All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix".

It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds.

We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.


We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.


Our Benefits
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.

About The Role


This is rare and exciting opportunity to be part of our well established Safeguarding and Review Team as an Independent Reviewing Officer.


In this role, you'll be passionate about representing the voices of Looked After Children and providing independent scrutiny to their care plans.


In this role you will be expected to:

  • Chair Looked After Reviews and make recommendations for care plans.
  • Quality Assure practice and work of social workers and other professionals.
  • Work with young people, parents and professionals to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Advocate and challenge where necessary in a child or young person's best interests.
  • Have a detailed legal and practice knowledge to make decisions and recommendations.
There are opportunities to develop leadership skills and engage a wide variety of activities in the service.

About The Team You'll Be Working In


The Safeguarding and Review Team are a well established team of autonomous practitioners who are driven by a passion to represent Looked After Children in London Borough of Hounslow.


The team provide independent oversight of care plans and support care experienced children and young people to ensure their voice is heard and their wishes and feelings represented.


There is a requirement for travel as the team is passionate about seeing children and young people face to face.

You will be reporting to the Safeguarding, Review and Quality Assurance Manager.

About You

  • A qualified and registered social worker with Social Work England.
  • You will be passionate about children and young people.
  • You will be an experienced practitioner with management experience and with an in depth knowledge of social work practice and legislation.
  • You will be selfdriven and autonomous in your practice with an ability to selfmanage and meet deadlines.
  • You will be creative and resourceful with an ability to listen to the voices of children and young people and advocate for them to achieve positive outcomes.
  • You will have experience in challenging professionals and quality assuring practice.

Essential for The Role:

Enhanced DBS

Read more about the work you'll be doing in the Role Profile.

When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:

Telephone:

**Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 4th December 2023.

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