What's involved with this role: Interim Co-ordinator Review & Child Protection – Social Care Job Ref: Walsall (HQ) 17879 Pay Rate: £29.23 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months City: Walsall Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role The purpose of the role is to take responsibility for ensuring the Local Authority discharges its duty to provide a quality social work and reviewing service to children who may have or may need a child protection plan and looked after children. Key responsibilities: Chair child protection conferences and looked after children’s reviews in accordance with the Children Act 1989, Children & Adoption Act 2002, Children Leaving Care Act 2000 and Children Act 2004, Working Together 2018, Care Planning and Placement regulations 2011, the IRO handbook and the Family Justice Review 2011. Ensure that child protection plans and care plans are developed and reviewed to ensure good outcomes for children and young people. Provide consultation to the wider service and partner agencies about child protection and care planning. Ensure that children, young people and family members are appropriately informed of procedures and processes and are supported and encouraged to make a full and active contribution to meetings. Promote fair access to services by challenging discrimination and oppression in accordance with the Council’s Equal Opportunities policy, and ensure services take account of the cultural, religious and linguistic background of children and their family and meet the relevant Equality Standard. Promote a child focused service, which includes ensuring that children, families and professionals are aware of and have access to the Complaints and Representation Process and advocacy as appropriate. Ensure delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers, is in line with legislation, guidance and local policy and procedures. Promote and enforce the Council’s Health and Safety Policy and maintain safe working practices for self and others. Promote a positive public image of Walsall Borough Council children’s services. Operate at all times within the professional ethics and disciplines of social work as described in the professional code of conduct and HCPC requirements. Ensure the requirements of appropriate child-care legislation and guidance are understood by all members of CSC by; leading by example attendance at team meetings, provision of induction, information sharing, and providing appropriate direction and communication. Work restoratively with, children, parents, family members, internal and external colleagues. Influence and negotiate with partner agencies to ensure that best quality services are provided to children and young people. Work collaboratively with partner agencies, within children’s services and in the voluntary sector to ensure multi-agency assessment, planning, interventions and review. NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items: Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector. Strong ICT skills across all Microsoft products particularly Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please