Job Description
MAIN DUTIES
Practice
To:
1. Effectively chair multi-agency Looked After Children Reviews, Child Protection Conferences and complex strategy meetings as required.
2. Ensure a multi-agency approach to decision making and be responsible for the decision making process at conferences and reviews. Ensure that there is a framework for reviewing compliance of plans.
3. Ensure that dates for meetings fit within the statutory timescales for conferences and reviews and that they are conducted in line with procedures. Make decisions to defer when there is insufficient information on which to base a decision.
4. Ensure that minutes and records of meetings are accurate, meet statutory and legal requirements and are distributed within the required timescale. Develop, maintain and comply with efficient and effective systems to ensure compliance with procedures and recording systems.
5. Enable the child to have a voice in proceedings and care planning meetings as appropriate and ensure that the rights of children and parents are adequately addressed. Consistently promote participation and ensure advocacy services are utilised where appropriate.
6. Challenge service decisions where necessary to fulfil an agreed plan of care and ensure any drift is dealt with promptly, use statutory powers to escalate to senior management and external bodies where appropriate.
7. Liaise and neg...