* Lead Child Protection Practitioner

Lead Child Protection Practitioners will

• Be a key member of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team.
• Chair all strategy meetings.
• Chair child protection conferences.
• Oversee and be the decision maker regarding section 47 enquiries.
• Lead the oversight of multi-agency and single agency investigations (as required).
• Attend as part of the MACPT the daily S47 outcome meeting.
• Chair MACE meetings for children who are at significant risk of extra familiar risk and harm.
• Attend relevant Extra Familiar Risk and Harm Panels.
• Work in collaboration with the Family Help Service to ensure robust child protection responses.
• Gather information about whether a child is suffering significant harm, to support decision making.
• Ensure that families have been offered a family group conference for children subject to child protection plans.
• Visit families to prepare them for child protection conferences and support them to prepare a draft plan for the conference.
• Oversee and quality assure the development, review and closure of child protection plans, including formal mid-way reviews.
• Input into onward planning for children and families (including continued support from Family Help and the voluntary sector).
• Provide advice and consultation for practitioners who need multi-agency child protection expertise.

Requirements as a Social Worker include:

• SWE Registration
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Drive and have access to a car
• Post-qualified experience
• Degree level or equivalent in Social Work

Benefits of working for Connect2SocialWork:

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Access to a wide range of roles nationwide, as well as exclusive roles to C2SW
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive knowledge
• Work for an agency owned by Kent County Council
• Prompt and reliable payroll system
• "Refer a Friend" bonus - get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place

Interested? Contact me today for more information! chloe.boakes@csltd.org.uk / 07725 902 996

Connect2Socialwork is a trading style of Commercial Services Trading LTD - A company wholly owned by Kent County Council. Connect2Socialwork is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.