Job Introduction
The Business Unit for The Bradford District Safeguarding Children Partnership (BDSCP) and Safeguarding Adults Board (BSAB) is a combined Unit which supports both partnerships and enables a collaborative / multi agency approach to safeguarding within Bradford.
We are seeking to recruit a temporary Partnership Safeguarding Reviews Coordinator on a 12 month contract. This person will lead coordinate the process of gathering multi agency chronologies, convening and taking the notes for multi-agency meetings to review evidence, and ensuring that the requirements of Serious Adult Reviews and the National Panel for Child Practice Reviews is met.
The main responsibilities of this role:
- Coordinate the Child Death Overview Process (CDOP) for Bradford. This includes seeking and collating information from multi-agencies to prepare statutory documentation, liaising with the Chair and other participants as necessary, producing accurate representations with an unbiased view and recording all information on national databases.
- Coordinate Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews (CSPR) and Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) on behalf of the multi-agency partnerships. This includes corresponding with and supporting Independent Reviewers, being proactive in the gathering of information, pursuing partners from statutory,
- voluntary and community sector organisations for a variety of operations and tracking the development of safeguarding practices and procedures.
- Work with the Community Safety Team to assist in the production of Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR). Support the identification of lessons to be learned through coordinating the system under which DHRs are conducted.
- Liaise with the Home Office, the National Child Mortality Database, the National Panel for CSPRs and any other national bodies as required by the reviews and panels as necessary.
- To assist in the preparation for inspections from external bodies and any peer review type of activity.
- Respond appropriately with members of the public and professionals about topics which are very sensitive, confidential and at times difficult.
- Understand and work with different systems, both in terms of software and operational, across the multi-agency partnership and troubleshoot across these systems in order to produce coherent results.
- Support professionals from different sectors to produce detailed reports for the CDOP, CSPR, SAR and DHR functions. Coordinate, track and chase information within the timescales set, this will involve skilful planning and effective organisation processes.
- Support the Safeguarding Business Unit Manager to undertake these functions, and any other associated duties on behalf of the Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Safeguarding Adult Board.
An enhanced disclosure check with theDisclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining our team and would like some further information, please contact Lawrence Bone or Maryam Bano by email to BDSCP@bradford.gov.uk
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Equal Opportunities
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