Independent Reviewing Officer

Our Client, a Merseyside council is seeking a Children's Independent Reviewing Officer to join their Team.

Fantastic payrate of £40 per hour!

Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

• Chair statutory reviews for looked-after children, ensuring care plans are robust, child-centred, and aligned with legislative requirements.
• Provide independent oversight and challenge to social work practice, escalating concerns where statutory duties, timescales, or quality standards are not met.
• Monitor the progress of care plans between reviews, ensuring actions are completed and children's outcomes remain the primary focus.
• Build meaningful relationships with children and young people, ensuring their voices, wishes, and feelings are central to decision-making.
• Lead on the processing of Subject Access Requests (SARs), ensuring compliance with GDPR and data protection legislation.
• Coordinate information gathering for SARs across children's services, working with teams to produce accurate, timely, and appropriately redacted records.
• Provide expert advice to staff on confidentiality, information-sharing, and data protection principles.
• Maintain high-quality records and reporting, contributing to service performance, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.

Requirements of this role:

• Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England
• Must have minimum of 3 years post qualifying social work experience

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

• Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
• Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
• Free CV building and Interview support.
• Free DBS checks.
• Weekly payroll.
• PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
• CPD contributions.
• Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
• Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!