Job Description
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Our Client, a Greater Manchester council is seeking a Children’s Independent Reviewing Officer to join their Team.
Fantastic payrate of £40 per hour!
Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
Responsibilities of this role:
* Chair statutory reviews for looked-after children, ensuring care plans are robust, child-centred, and aligned with legislative requirements.
* Provide independent oversight and challenge to social work practice, escalating concerns where statutory duties, timescales, or quality standards are not met.
* Monitor the progress of care plans between reviews, ensuring actions are completed and children’s outcomes remain the primary focus.
* Build meaningful relationships with children and young people, ensuring their voices, wishes, and feelings are central to decision-making.
* Lead on the processing of Subject Access Requests (SARs), ensuring compliance with GDPR and data protection legislation.
* Coordinate information gathering for SARs across children’s services, working with teams to produce accurate, timely, and appropriately redacted records.
* Provide expert advice to staff on confidentiality, information-sharing, and data protection principles.
* Maintain high-quality records and reporting, contributing to service performance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.
Requirements of this role:
* Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England
* Must have minimum of 3 years post qualifying social work experience
Benefits of working through Reed, include:
* Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
* Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
* Free CV building and Interview support.
* Free DBS checks.
* Weekly payroll.
* PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
* CPD contributions.
* Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients. xsngvjr
* Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.
Does this role interest you? Apply today!