As a team, we operate within the framework of the Family Safeguarding model and use Motivational Interviewing techniques, strengths-based and relationship-based approaches, with a trauma informed understanding of families to ensure they feel heard and are in the driving seat for making and sustaining change.
* You will chair multi-agency Child Protection Conferences in accordance with national Guidance and local procedures.
* You will be responsible for decision making on thresholds for Child Protection at the conferences, ensuring the decisions are well considered, balanced and evidence based.
* You will develop and record SMART plans focusing on the harm reduction and the unmet needs of a child and their family.
* You will provide specialist consultation and quality assurance functions across the service which includes completing escalations and resolutions with operational teams and other agencies where necessary.
* You will complete regular quality assurance checks on children's files and record these within specific timescales.
* You will ensure the footprint of the CP Chair is visible on electronic files by recording all consultations, meetings and communications with parents and children.
* You will complete audits and moderations of audits on a variety of themes.
* You will offer consultations to social workers and managers for children on CIN plans or in the assessment stage where there is uncertainty around thresholds or CIN plans that are ...