Children’s Social Worker, Lead Child Protection Planner, Dorset

Children’s Social Worker, Lead Child Protection Planner, Dorset
Pay rate to £47.50 per hour
Contract role, Lead Child Protection Planner, Dorchester area

Pertemps are recruiting for an experienced Children’s Social Workers in Dorset.
This is to work as a Lead Child Protection Planner in the Dorchester area
Key responsibilities
Lead Child Protection Practitioners will:

1. Be a key member of the Multi-Agency Child Protection Team.
2. Chair all strategy meetings.
3. Chair child protection conferences.
4. Oversee and be the decision maker regarding section 47 enquiries.
5. Lead the oversight of multi-agency and single agency investigations (as required).
6. Attend as part of the MACPT the daily S47 outcome meeting.
7. Chair MACE meetings for children who are at significant risk of extra familiar risk and harm.
8. Attend relevant Extra Familiar Risk and Harm Panels.
9. Work in collaboration with the Family Help Service to ensure robust child protection responses.
10. Gather information about whether a child is suffering significant harm, to support decision making.
11. Ensure that families have been offered a family group conference for children subject to child protection plans.
12. Visit families to prepare them for child protection conferences and support them to prepare a draft plan for the conference.
13. Oversee and quality assure the development, review and closure of child protection plans, including formal mid-way reviews.
14. Input into onward planning for children and families (including continued support from Family Help and the voluntary sector).
15. Provide advice and consultation for practitioners who need multi-agency child protection expertise.
16. Oversight of all children allocated to LCPP who are the subject of section 47 enquiries or on a child protection plan. Providing support and challenge of operational practice to ensure that intended outcomes for children are being achieved in the child's timeframe.
17. Attend the weekly multi-agency child protection line of sight meetings to contribute to the multi-agency discussions and decision making. Decisions from line of sight will be the responsibility of the locality service manager.
18. Attend the weekly leadership meeting to contribute to information being shared and discussion about decisions being made. Decisions from the weekly leadership meetings will remain with the head of locality.
19. Write or contribute to high quality reports and briefings on practice improvement, policy developments and legislation changes as required.

There is plenty of hybrid working available.
Please get in touch for more information.

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.

Please contact Graham Leatham on or email for more information.
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