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The Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) provides a critical quality assurance role in safeguarding children in care and those at risk of significant harm. Operating within a statutory framework, the IRO ensures that each child's care plan is effective, focused on the child's best interests, and fully implemented. IROs work closely with social workers, families, and a wide range of agencies to oversee and review care plans, ensuring they are purposeful, comply with statutory requirements, and ultimately safeguard the child.
Responsibilities include:
- Care Act assessments
- Report writing
- Chairing Looked After Children (LAC) reviews to ensure care plans are designed to meet the child's current and future needs.
- Having an informed understanding of mental health factors impacting child development
- Work on cases with increased complexity
- Determine an appropriate level of intervention and service provision
Requirements:
- Previous management experience working within child safeguarding services
- Skills of multi-agency working, developing child focused CP plans, understanding of dispute resolution and escalation process and challenging professional agencies.
Benefits:
- Competitive pay
- Tailored personal support delivered by a committed and market expert consultant
- Unlock a plethora of training opportunities to elevate your professional abilities
- Enjoy 100s of high street discounts and vouchers
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
