Child Protection Manager (Senior Interim)

Child Protection Manager (Senior Interim) - Children's Services -Derbyshire County Council - County Hall, DE4 3AG

3 - 6 Months Contract

37 Hours Per Week

Hybrid

We are looking for Child Protection Manager (Senior Interim)based at : County Hall, DE4 3AG

Hybrid working with full expectation for successful candidate to travel across the county for face to face meetings and attend County Hall in Matlock as required

Key Accountabilities:

• To chair child protection case conferences and complex strategy meetings effectively.
• To contribute to the goal of significantly improving outcomes for children and young people and the delivery of our vision and strategic priorities set out in the Children and Young People's Plan.
• To promote the participation of children, young people and their families. To play a key role in quality assurance, training and policy development.
• To support operational staff and managers to deliver quality services through providing advice, guidance and appropriate authoritative challenge.
• To chair complex child protection conferences in accordance with current legislation, guidance and departmental policies and procedures ensuring all children and young people are able to make a meaningful and age appropriate contribution to the conference.
• To ensure that the voice of the child/ren is actively promoted and that their wishes and feelings given due consideration, whilst working in partnership with parents, carers and other professionals.
• To ensure that plans of protection for children and young people are based on detailed and informed assessment, are up-to-date, effective and appropriately meet the child's needs.
• To provide a written record of the decisions, action, and plan made at the CP Conference and ensure that a record of the conference is completed and distributed within agreed timescales, and statutory guidance.
• To ensure the development and delivery of high quality practice and quality standards.
• To further improve the local authority's practice in the review of child protection plans for children, young people and their families, using research and evidence of innovative practice initiatives.
• To identify any gaps in the assessment process or in the services being provided. To monitor and evaluate the quality of practice for child protection by way of scrutinising child protection plans and to challenge practice that does not meet the required local and national standards.
• To resolve issues of practice and planning in respect of children subject to child protection procedures with staff and managers, if unsuccessful to make representation to senior management.
• To actively contribute to the arrangements for case work audit, quality assurance and performance management. Use influence, knowledge and experience to contribute to the development of social work practice and positive outcomes for children.
• To continually maintain professional competence and knowledge of relevant legislation, research, national developments and good practice initiatives.
• To organise allocate workload to ensure that work is progressed in a timely manner and priorities are met.
• To make effective and accurate use of IT packages such as Word, Excel and
• Outlook and recoding systems.
• To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade of the post, as may be required form time to time.

Requirements:

• Experienced in Child Protection Work
• Experience in communicating effectively with children, young people and their families and other professionals.
• Experienced in chairing meetings with professionalism and sensitivity, whilst able to deal with, and diffuse any potential disruptive behaviour and difficult situations.
• Experience of applying in practice, the principles of child care legislation relating to child protection.
• Strong analytical and planning skills for assessing children and young people.
• Experience of applying critical reflection and analysis to the most complex/high risk cases, with experience of supporting others to develop these skills.
• Experience in the use of ICT, including MS Word, Outlook and case record management systems.
• Evidence of management level experience e.g. supervision of staff or students.
• Experience in undertaking audits and QA activities and communicate findings (desirable)
• HCPC registered