Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) / Conference Chair
If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Pay: £38 per hour Umbrella (in line with MOU rates)
Are you an experienced social work professional with a passion for safeguarding children, championing their voices, and driving high standards of practice? We are seeking an experienced Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) / Conference Chair to play a pivotal role in ensuring children and young people receive the highest quality care, protection, and support.
This is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact by providing independent oversight, quality assurance, and challenge across children's services while ensuring that care planning and safeguarding arrangements deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
About the Role
As an IRO / Conference Chair, you will be responsible for promoting the welfare, safety, and rights of children and young people through the statutory review and child protection processes. You will provide independent scrutiny of care planning, safeguard the voice of the child, and monitor the Local Authority's effectiveness as a corporate parent.
Working collaboratively with social workers, managers, and partner agencies, you will ensure that care plans and child protection plans are robust, outcome-focused, and responsive to the individual needs, wishes, and feelings of children and young people.
Key Responsibilities
- Chair statutory reviews for children and young people in care in line with relevant legislation, regulations, and guidance.
- Chair Child Protection Conferences and review meetings, ensuring plans are robust, effective, and focused on positive outcomes.
- Promote and champion the voice of the child throughout all review and safeguarding processes.
- Monitor the quality and effectiveness of care planning and decision-making across children's services.
- Provide independent oversight and challenge where practice falls below expected standards.
- Identify patterns, themes, and areas of concern relating to the experiences of children and young people.
- Ensure statutory requirements for children in care reviews and pathway planning reviews are met.
- Chair reviews relating to respite care, fostering placements, and residential placements.
- Undertake quality assurance activity and review case files to support continuous improvement.
- Work closely with multi-agency partners to ensure children are effectively safeguarded.
- Contribute to service development, policy improvement, and performance management initiatives. xgikmsk
- Support organisational learning by sharing best practice, emerging research, and legislative developments.
- Participate in auditing, training, professional development, and wider...
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