Local Authority Designated Officer

4 weeks ago


Plymouth, United Kingdom Cleantech People Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Job Ref: Plymouth RQ1196840**

**_Enhanced DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role_**

The team requires a Local Authority Designated Officer - Social & Healthcare Qualified

Previous management/LADO experience in a statutory setting is essential along with proven chairing experience in multi-agency safeguarding.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To fulfil the role of the LADO as set out in Working Together 2018, Keeping Children Safe in Education, 2018 and the Children Act 2004.
- To chair Managing Allegations Strategy Meetings (ASM) in relation to allegations against staff and volunteers ensuring representation by appropriate agencies and professionals.
- Provide advice on safeguarding issues relating to the management of allegations, and wider safeguarding issues, including policy development and meeting OFSTED requirements, both internally and to a range of partner and community /voluntary sector agencies.
- Manage allegations against adults who work with children and young people in a professional or voluntary capacity, including liaising with senior staff internally and in partner agencies, Crown Prosecution Service and Ofsted when appropriate.
- Chair complex strategy meetings within safeguarding service and making determination where they meet section 47 criteria.
- Undertake and support quality assurance work across the safeguarding service to include auditing work.
- Provide cover to the Independent Chairs with Child Protection Conference and Looked After
- Children Reviews when required.
- Make threshold decisions on whether LADO criteria is met, chair meetings and provide advice to professionals regards to this process.
- Support DBS queries where there are safeguarding issues.

**To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.**

**_If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity._**

**Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items**:
**Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.**

**Qualifications**:

- Social Work Qualified.
- Registered with Social Work England.
- Proven management/LADO experience in a statutory setting.
- Proven chairing experience in multi-agency safeguarding

**Skills & experience**:

- Experience of effective partnership working.
- You must be an experienced practitioner with management/LADO experience.
- Experience of using IT and software packages such as Microsoft Office etc.
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding best practice.
- Understanding of child development.
- Up to date knowledge of research into key safeguarding themes eg CE, perpetrator behaviours.
- Knowledge of employment (including DBS) and childcare legislation and any other relevant legislation eg: criminal law.
- Sound understanding of anti-discriminatory practice.
- Relevant demonstrable experience in statutory social work with children and families.
- Experience of multi-agency child protection and children in care services.
- Experience of supervising and supporting social workers in their day to day practice in planning for children in care and children in need of protection - desirable

Am **Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please



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