Child Protection Advisor job at United Kingdom , London Full Time

We are seeking an experienced and confident practitioner to join our Child Protection Conference team as a Child Protection Advisor. In this pivotal role, you will chair Child Protection Conferences and Contextual Safeguarding Child in Need meetings, providing independent oversight and ensuring that robust, SMART and child centred plans are developed and progressed. As a Child Protection Advisor in Haringey, you will play a key role in driving high quality safeguarding practice. You will bring together professionals from across partner agencies, facilitating balanced, analytical and reflective discussion to support effective decision making around risk, need and protection. You will provide expert safeguarding advice to practitioners and maintain oversight of child protection and contextual safeguarding plans, ensuring they remain focused, timely and proportionate. A core aspect of the role is promoting meaningful participation. You will work creatively and sensitively to increase the involvement of children and young people in meetings and planning, helping to ensure that their lived experience is central to assessment and decision making. You will also contribute to quality assurance activity and practice improvement across the service. Child Protection Conferences in Haringey take place face to face. This role therefore requires regular office attendance, with a minimum expectation of three days per week.

• Chair Child Protection Conferences and Contextual Safeguarding Child in Need meetings
• Provide independent oversight and ensure robust, SMART and child centred plans are developed and progressed
• Drive high quality safeguarding practice
• Bring together professionals from across partner agencies
• Facilitate balanced, analytical and reflective discussion to support effective decision making around risk, need and protection
• Provide expert safeguarding advice to practitioners
• Maintain oversight of child protection and contextual safeguarding plans
• Promote meaningful participation
• Work creatively and sensitively to increase involvement of children and young people in meetings and planning
• Contribute to quality assurance activity and practice improvement across the service

• Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance and national best practice relating to child protection and contextual safeguarding
• Experience of working in a diverse urban environment with children, families and communities from a wide range of cultural backgrounds
• The ability to analyse complex information, manage professional challenge and reach balanced, defensible decisions
• Strong skills in producing clear, timely and outcome focused child protection and Child in Need plans
• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage, consult and appropriately challenge practitioners, parents, carers and young people
• You will be a highly experienced registered social worker with active Social Work England registration and substantial post qualification experience in statutory children’s safeguarding services
• Significant experience of chairing complex multi agency meetings and a strong grasp of child protection thresholds, processes and decision making in a safeguarding context