IRO, Independent Reviewing Officer

Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO)

The candidate must have the social work qualification and experienced as a statutory independent reviewing officer with children in care to Local Authorities.

Hybrid working

Role required urgently so candidates available within a month please.

Requirements:

• To assure the quality of work with Looked After Children in Children’s Social Care, and to ensure performance is maintained

• To chair statutory reviews of Children Looked After in accordance with legislation, and to ensure plans for children progress appropriately

• To contribute to the development of practice in relation to Looked after Children

• To provide advice and consultation to social workers and team managers on specific issues of complexity.

• To be accountable for decision making in looked after reviews and other multi agency outlets.

• To convene and record review outcomes within timescales.

• To provide a key role in problem resolution. To work with complaints officers, and advocates, where necessary, for the resolution of a problem.

• To promote practice that acknowledges that becoming looked after is a final option for children and that the majority of children do best supported within their family of origin.

• To promote and model practice that is respectful of children and of parents, and takes full account of their views, rights and responsibilities.

• To identify, record and escalate any concerns in relation to planning and achieving outcomes for children looked after.

• To make recommendations regarding the safety of children looked after placed with parents.

• To represent the department at local practice based fora.

• To contribute, at the request of the IRO team manager or the QIS service manager to internal and inter agency planning groups and meetings with regard to planning and development of services for children.

• To be responsible for monitoring, developing, maintaining and improving local quality assurance systems.

• To liaise with operational staff and managers to ensure proactive implementation of decisions from looked after children’s reviews.

• To undertake audits and evaluation of looked after children work, contributing to cross cutting audits as appropriate.

• To closely monitor the integrity of LCS and Performance related data within the responsibility of the postholder

• To undertake all related administrative tasks involved in providing and monitoring the decisions and practices related to looked after children’s planning to ensure that targets are met.

• To report to the Quality Improvement IRO Manager any shortfalls in performance or service delivery, and to actively seek to rectify such shortfalls.

• To actively seek out opportunities for collaborative working with other agencies in the interests of improved planning and service delivery for children

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-

• A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to

• An easy registration process (all done online)

• Referral schemes and incentives

• Ongoing compliance managed for you

• Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.

For more information please contact me on Taylor.johnson@pprsocialcare.co.uk or 07813 347 703