Job Description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Independent Reviewing Officer within the Standards & Quality Team to work full time based in Jersey.

The salary for this permanent Independent Reviewing Officer job is up to \xc2\xa379,599 per annum.

Main duties:

• To be the independent chairs of multi-agency Child Protection Conferences and Looked After Reviews for children at risk of harm or in the care of the Minister in accordance with statutory guidance, IRO regulations and safeguarding procedures. This includes a responsibility for co-ordinating and scrutinising the plans for the most vulnerable children in Jersey and ensuring that appropriate and accurate records of meetings are produced and distributed within statutory timescales.
• To promote the involvement and participation of children and young people, parents and carers in planning and decision making, including monitoring the performance of the Government\xe2\x80\x99s function as a corporate parent.
• To provide advice and consultation for staff in Children\xe2\x80\x99s Service, including the provision of independent scrutiny and oversight, proposing where necessary improvements to planning and practice in order to ensure that all aspects of Children\xe2\x80\x99s needs are regularly reviewed and provision made to meet those needs, including for safety and protection.
• To provide safeguarding advice and consultation to staff in complex child protection cases.
• To act as the Jersey Designated Officer as required, chairing strategy meetings and following up as necessary where there are concerns that a child may be harmed or at risk of harm, in line with Jersey Managing Allegations policy.
• To assist in the development of quality assurance and performance management arrangements within the Children\xe2\x80\x99s Services Directorate, including completing audits and contributing to service development.
• To carry out reviews of children and young people who are the responsibility of Jersey and are held in Secure Accommodation.
• To address directly and decisively (including independently challenging) any safeguarding or planning/performance issues that raise concern in accordance with the organisations policies and procedures, and legislative requirements.

Requirements of this role:

• Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
• Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
• Experience of community and/or group work.
• Knowledge of children\xe2\x80\x99s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Independent Reviewing Officer job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients\' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning \xe2\x80\x98Best Candidate Care\xe2\x80\x99 at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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