Children Protection Advisor

We have an exciting opportunity in the Child Protection Conference team as a Child Protection Advisor.

As an Ealing Child Protection Advisor, you will chair Child Protection Conferences, and you will have a unique oversight role for the child protection developed at the meetings you chair. You will provide safeguarding advice to practitioners. You will have a responsibility to monitor, support and to improve practice and be a child-focused practitioner, who is keen to develop young people’s involvement in their own meetings, and to support them to take part in planning. You will be working with agency partners, bringing them together to contribute to analysis and decision making around risk, and managing the different perspectives brought by different disciplines and individuals to multi-partner meetings. Your experience and sound knowledge of safeguarding, thresholds, and safeguarding processes will make you a safe pair of hands to develop and oversee safeguarding plans in Ealing. Initial Child Protection Conferences in Ealing take place face to face. This means you will be in the office in order to facilitate them.

The Ealing borough is a diverse multicultural borough and thus there is a strong ethos within the team to imbed cultural awareness and diversity within our daily work and interactions with children and their families. The candidate must be passionate about delivering a family centred service which is child focused, whilst carrying out supportive and safeguarding statutory duties in line with current legation and PAN London guidance.

The candidate will report directly to the Safeguarding Manager. You can expect to receive support from your manager to help you to grow and develop in the role.

If you believe you have the required experience, skills, and abilities to exceed in either of these roles, we would like to hear from you.

How to apply
If you are interested, complete the online application form and set out how you meet the criteria set out in the person specification on the role profile attached. Please remember to provide concrete examples on how you meet these points when writing your supporting statement.

As a disability confident employer, we are committed to supporting equitable opportunities for all applicants. We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job. This approach ensures that disabled candidates are given a fair chance to demonstrate their abilities in an interview setting, which can provide them with the necessary time and space to fully convey their qualifications. Please inform the hiring manager if you have a disability and if you require any specific adjustments or assistance during the application or interview process.

Ealing council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Ealing council follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults. The post holder will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
This post is subject to Ealing council’s enhanced vetting process.

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