🧑🤝🧑 We’re Hiring – Children’s Safeguarding Review Lead
📍 Location: Shropshire
🔖 Reference – SCS2062
🕒 Job Type: Full-time – 37 hours per week
💷 Pay: £41.42 per hour Umbrella
💼 Start Date: ASAP
🚗 Driver: Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle required
🏢 Working Pattern: Hybrid – maximum 1 to 2 days per week in the office, remaining days working from home
About the Role
Supply Care Solutions is a market-leading Medical and Social Care recruitment consultancy, providing accredited services across the public sector and supporting professionals with short-term, long-term and permanent placements.
We are currently recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Safeguarding Review Lead to join Shropshire Council on a full-time basis.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional with a strong background in children’s safeguarding, quality assurance, case reviews, safeguarding reviews or practice improvement to further develop their experience within a local authority environment.
The successful candidate will support the Principal Social Worker (PSW) / Service Manager for Quality Assurance in matters relating to the Shropshire Safeguarding Community Partnership (SSCP) .
The role will involve leading and supporting safeguarding reviews, quality assurance activity, learning processes and partnership arrangements, with a strong focus on identifying learning, improving practice and ensuring actions arising from reviews are effectively implemented and monitored.
Key Responsibilities
As a Children’s Safeguarding Review Lead , you will be responsible for:
Assisting with the timely arrangement and completion of Safeguarding Incident Notification meetings between Statutory Partners.
Ensuring safeguarding meetings are accurately recorded and, where appropriate, referrals to the SSCP for Rapid Reviews are completed.
Taking a lead role in reviewing records for Rapid Reviews, Domestic Homicide Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Anti-Social Behaviour Case Reviews .
Drafting Scoping Forms, Information Management Reports (IMRs) and similar reports.
Compiling detailed Impact Chronologies to support internal reviews and Local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.
Representing the PSW/Service Manager for Quality Assurance at relevant meetings.
Presenting information and contributing meaningfully to discussions concerning risk, safeguarding and learning .
Attending and contributing to Case Review Panels and Practitioner Learning Events .
Deputising for the Service Manager for Quality Assurance at the SSCP Children’s and Adults Statutory Case Review Groups and the SSCP Quality Assurance and Performance Group .
Disseminating learning from local and national Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews across the workforce.
Developing mechanisms to evaluate and report on the impact of learning on frontline practice.
Deputising, as directed, for the PSW/Service Manager for Quality Assurance as the Children’s Social Care representative at the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) .
Providing relevant information and attending to represent Shropshire Children’s Social Care at Joint Agency Reviews, CDOP meetings and Child Death Review Meetings .
Securing appropriate responses to identified actions and ensuring learning is effectively disseminated across the workforce.
Deputising for and representing the Service Manager for Quality Assurance at relevant internal and external meetings, panels and committees.
Leading the coordination and tracking of actions arising from reviews, panels, learning events, SSCP groups and CDOP-related activity .
Ensuring actions are completed, evidence of impact is captured and progress is reported through appropriate governance routes.
Supporting the development and delivery of practice improvement activity , including briefings, learning sessions, workshops and resources.
Using learning from audits, reviews, complaints, inspections and national safeguarding…