Overview
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits. Benefits include:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements, including agile working
- Generous annual leave entitlement and flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
As a Public Sector organisation, we are all about providing continuity and stability for both our employees and residents, especially in these challenging times when it is needed most.
About the role
Cambridgeshire County Council are recruiting permanent Independent Chairs.
Independent Chairs work within Safeguarding and Quality Assurance and are responsible for chairing statutory Child Protection Conferences and Child in Care Reviews.
This post-holder will need therefore to have the skills and expertise to manage a caseload of children subject to a child protection plan and children in care depending on the need of the service.
The role requires a social work qualification with at least 5 years post qualifying experience in the field of social work with children. As an Independent Chair, you will be asked to chair multi-agency Conferences and Reviews and will take the lead in ensuring the plans for children are SMART.
Your work will involve developing relationships with children and their families ensuring that the childs voice is central to the planning You will also need to have the skills to communicate effectively with the multi-agency network, and the confidence to escalate any issues of drift or delay directly to senior managers where necessary.
This post requires an agile worker who is flexible, adaptable, and able to travel to meetings both in and out of county. The child protection caseload will be predominantly for the South Cambridgeshire and Cambridge City district.
You will be supported in your role through regular 1:1 supervision and monthly team meetings.
If you would like to have an informal conversation about this post, please contact:
Olly Grant Service Manager on 07787837944.
Marie Saunders Service Manager on 07949529627.
About you
We’re looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
