Job details
Job reference: REQ00000019082
Date posted: 17/10/2025
Application closing date: 11/11/2025
Location: Carlisle
Salary: £51,356 – £52,413 per annum
Contractual hours: 37 hours per week
Basis: Full time
Job title: Independent Reviewing Officer – CMB2100e
Independent Reviewing Officer
Salary: £51,356 – £52,413 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Carlisle
This role is central to ensuring effective safeguarding and care planning for children in need of protection or those looked after by the local authority. You will chair statutory reviews, child protection conferences, and complex strategy meetings, ensuring that every child has a robust plan that reflects their needs, wishes, and feelings. Through close liaison with professionals and interrogation of data systems, you will monitor and challenge care arrangements, ensuring they meet high standards. The role also involves providing expert advice, contributing to training and service quality assurance, and promoting the resolution of concerns through the review process, in line with Independent Reviewing Officer guidance.
Qualifications: Must hold a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.
Core values: Ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, innovative.
DBS Check: Enhanced DBS Check with a Children’s Barred List check.
Guaranteed Interviews
* Disabled applicants under the Equality Act 2010
* Care leavers aged 24 and under
* Armed forces veterans whose last substantive employer was the armed forces
Application and Interview Information
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Interview date: 18th November 2025
Please note this role may close early subject to demand. If you’re interested in applying, you should apply well before the advised closing date. We cannot accept applications once the role has closed.
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