Independent Reviewing Officer

6 months ago

Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Council Full time

**IRO/ Conference Chair**

**12 month fixed term. (Maternity cover)**

**Grade L**

We are currently looking for an experienced Independent Reviewing Officer/Conference Chair. This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday. Whilst there can be some flexible working arrangements, the expectation will be that you can be office based, chairing meetings face to face.

A qualified social worker, registered with Social Work England. Able to operate at a management level with significant experience of social work in Child Protection and with Children in our Care.

**As an IRO**: working in adherence to the IRO Handbook Care Planning and Review Regulations, Children Act and all other legislation impacting upon Children in our Care, Fostering and Adoption and, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children.
- Overseeing and scrutinising care planning for Children in Our Care from the commencement of their journey in our care.
- Forming relationships with those children for whom you have oversight and ensuring that their views underpin and inform assessments and plans.
- Chairing Children in Our Care Reviews
- Ensuring close communication with colleagues in the wider service and partner agencies.
- Holding agencies to account for their role in corporate parenting for a child and ensuring the very best outcomes are achieved.
- Raising challenges where required and demonstrating the impact of these challenges.
- Ensuring records of your activity are thorough, up to date and accessible, forming part of an account for a child of their journey in our care.
- Contribute to development and high standards of social work practice across the wider service.
- To have and to use an up to date understanding of relationship based and trauma informed practice.

As a Conference Chair:

- Act in accordance with Working Together and the policies and procedures set out by Gateshead Safeguarding Partnership.
- To chair Child Protection conferences with authority, skill, knowledge, compassion and collaboration with partner agencies and with children and families.
- To ensure that the plans made to protect children are robust, timely, realistic and clear.
- To oversee and scrutinise the progress of child protection planning between child protection conferences.
- To hold all agencies to account in their role of safeguarding children and escalate issues when this is required.
- To produce clear records of your activity within the IT systems we us in Gateshead.
- To have and to use up to date understanding of issues such as domestic abuse, in your practice.

By pursuing your career with Gateshead Council, we can guarantee you will have:

- A senior leadership team that listens and care about you and your work
- Your base in the same building as all social work teams, allowing support not just from your allocated team but all services.
- Hybrid working - both working from the office base and home working
- A culture which takes pride in and actively celebrates social work.
- Excellent opportunities for career progression, whether you are a newly qualified social worker completing your assessment and supported year in employment with the support of our Social Work Academy, or a more experiences social worker looking to broaden your experience in order to step into management.
- A protected time employee induction scheme.

As an employee of Gateshead Council you also 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

For further information regarding what Gateshead can offer you please log onto Careers in children's social work - Gateshead Council

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