Independent Reviewing Officer

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom London Borough of Hillingdon Full time

Job number

**SC00759**

Location

**Civic Centre, High Street Uxbridge, Middlesex, London, UB8 1UW**

Directorate

**Social Care**

Job Type

**Childrens Social Care**

Contract Type

**Permanent**

Working Hours

**28**

Closing date

**17 December 2023**

Salary range

**£52,929.00 - £57,102.00 per year**

About us

At Hillingdon we’re proud of our commitment of ‘Putting our residents first’, ensuring they’re at the heart of everything we do We want to attract talented individuals like yourself who share our aspirations for the borough and can support us to deliver exceptional services for Hillingdon.

With an ambitious strategy we pride ourselves on delivering services that improve the lives of all our residents, businesses, and partners. Embarking on a journey of continuous improvement, we’ve set an agenda to ensure the provision of; safer communities, a thriving local economy, a greener more sustainable environment, whilst increasing our digital capabilities.

Working at London’s second largest borough can be tough, particularly with government reforms, budget restrictions, and political attention - but it’s enough to keep us busy and ensures no two days are the same

What does an Independent Reviewing Officer do at Hillingdon?
- To comply with statutory guidance, current legislation and the IRO Handbook by providing independent chairing of reviews of looked after children, and to attend and participate in meetings relevant to the care and decision making for children and young people.
- To be responsible for chairing Child Protection Conferences.
- To ensure that the views of children, young people and parents are heard and given due attention and to ensure that children, parents and young people actively participate in these processes.
- To assist the Safeguarding Manager in the quality assurance of Child Protection work and Children Looked After work through monitoring and auditing.
- To produce accurate records of these reviews and conferences. Following the review to monitor and audit cases, ensuring the regular review and monitoring of individual care plans and child protection plans and the achievement of appropriate and timely outcomes for children and young people.
- To act as consultant to managers, social work staff and other agencies about policy, procedure and practice relating to safeguarding and Children Looked After with the aim of providing direction and guidance to ensure standards are maintained and procedures adhered to.
- To ensure the implementation of care plans and child protection plans thorough monitoring and liaison with social workers and managers and to use the escalation procedure as and when required.

We want you to be a real part of the change we’re making here in Hillingdon for our children and families. We understand the need to nurture and support colleagues and from the day one you will be welcomed into our team. You will not receive just induction; you will be welcomed to your team and will have around you colleagues who will help and support at the beginning of your journey with us and continue to provide on the job support at all times. You will have access to a wide range of training, learning and development but you will also be able to share your knowledge and expertise with others, to practice in an innovative way knowing you have behind you a whole service that understands that social work is not static, that we are always adapting, learning and responding to the context in which we operate.

We recognise potential and talent and thus, your career ambitions and aspirations will always be supported and promoted and we will be walking alongside you in your development and achieving your ambitions. There are many ways to develop which may include leadership development programmes or more informal way of learning and growing professionally. We have track record of achieving this for our colleagues and many of our managers and leaders who started in the Team grew and promoted to their current positions, some of them achieving national recognition for their skills, talent and vision.

About you

You will join a team where your voice will always be heard and listened to. Here we are all working together to achieve our ambitions and goals for our children, families and colleagues by promoting inclusiveness and encouraging direct communications across levels of leadership and management and by acknowledging that we all have an important contribution to make in transforming the way we work, transforming the service offer and most important, transforming the lives of children and families who always come first.

You will be Degree level qualified with relevant professional qualification or equivalents eg Diploma in Social Work and registered with SW England. You will have at least 5 years’ management experience, ideally with a management qualification or with the willingness to undertake such qualifications to enhance your knowledge of the role.

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