Senior Safeguarding Clerk

5 months ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Council Full time

The SCU is responsible for chairing Child Protection Conferences, Looked After Children Reviews, Foster Care Reviews, Secure Reviews, Complex Abuse Meetings and Strategy Meetings which have been convened by the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).

You will be responsible for the provision of an efficient administration and minuting service to ensure the efficient running of SCU.

Key responsibilities of this post include the arranging of meetings by ensuring invitation letters are distributed within procedural timescales. You are required to attend Initial and Review Child Protection Conferences, LADO Strategy Meetings and other statutory meetings to minute (Using a Laptop) and produce accurate records following discussion and to ensure child protection plans and all minutes from meetings are produced and distributed within procedural timescales. You will be required to ensure that accurate performance data is inputted onto Mosaic following all Child Protection Conferences and LADO Strategy Meetings, maintaining appropriate records on the social care database adhering to national and LA guidance on confidentiality and information-sharing.

You would also be responsible for the administrative tasks relating to the arrangement of the Foster Carers Annual Reviews.

You will be required to assist the Business Support Coordinator in the monitoring of Business Support procedures. You will have responsibility for maintaining and updating manual and computerised information systems ensuring information used by the service is accurate and to assist with the auditing of data quality.

It is essential that you have experience in convening, servicing and minuting meetings. You must be able to work on own initiative, organise and prioritise your workloads to ensure timescales are met. You must have comprehensive working knowledge of word processing and spreadsheet systems. You must have effective

written and oral communication skills demonstrating a high standard of accuracy.

You must be able to input, retrieve, collate and present information from computerised and manual systems and have excellent IT and typing skills.

As an employee of Gateshead Council, you will benefit from:

- Great transport links with the use of reliable and frequent public transport and have access to a discounted Annual Pass. You will also have use of Co-wheel pool cars and access to the Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
- A generous annual leave package of 27 days (2 of which are fixed), increasing to 29 days (plus 2 fixed) following 5 years’ service. You will also have the opportunity to purchase up to 10 days extra leave via our Annual Leave Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
- Access to the flexi scheme
- Being a member of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- Eligibility to access a range of other staff offers and discounts such as:

- Reduced rate membership for GO Gateshead Leisure Services
- Health Shield which provides a wide range of innovative products that help to improve long-term health and wellbeing via a health care plan.
- O2 open discount scheme
- Virgin Media partner discount scheme
- Dell Advantage discount programme

5 GCSEs at Grade C or above or grades (1-9) or equivalent qualification and/or experience is essential.

Experience of working in a children’s social care, or health environment would be desirable but is not essential.

If you have and queries or would like further information, please contact Julie Reay, Business Support Coordinator on 0191 4333565.

tor on 0191 4333565.


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