Nottinghamshire County Council
Independent Reviewing Officer
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Independent Reviewing Officer
Permanent Part-Time Role
Position: Independent Reviewing Officer Salary: £44,075 – £49,282 per annum (pro rata) Hours: 18.5 per week Location: Meadow House, Littleworth, NG18 2TB Work Arrangements: Hybrid Closing Date: 5 July 2026, 23:55 Interview Date: 20 July 2026 Post Type: Permanent, Part Time Tier: Tier 6 Number of Posts: 1
About the Department & Organisation
The Children and Families Department adopts a strengths-based approach when working with children, young people, families, and partner agencies. Our approach is known as "Our Nottinghamshire Approach." To learn more, watch their short animation.
About the Role
The Independent Chair Service (ICS) provides independent reviews and coordination of:
- Care plans for looked-after children
- Child protection plans
- Care leaver plans
- Children in need under supervision orders
The ICS operates within the Strategic Safeguarding and Independent Review Group of Nottinghamshire County Council, where duties also include:
- Strategic safeguarding responsibilities
- Local Authority Designated (Child Safeguarding) Officer (LADO) role
- Missing children response
- Safeguarding in education
- Child criminal exploitation (CCE) and child sexual exploitation (CSE)
Reviews are conducted with a strengths-based methodology.
Key Responsibilities
- Chair complex case reviews and provide strategic guidance to ensure child safety and well-being.
- Supervise and challenge the Local Authority’s corporate parenting standards for vulnerable children.
- Always promote the voice of the child, ensuring their views and experiences are central to the process.
- Challenging deliverable for a high-quality, evidence-based reviews and decisions.
- Monitor and provide constructive challenge to the Local Authority’s implementation of safeguarding policies.
- Uphold legal frameworks related to looked-after children, care leavers and child protection plans, ensuring compliance with regulations.
- Decide high-quality outcomes by assessing risks, needs, and planning alternatives.
- Support timely cases and informal reviews for children and young people.
- Engage with professionals, families, and supportive advocates in the best interests of the child.
- Work effectively within prioritised safeguarding and safeguarding review timelines.
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Essential Requirements
Qualification & Experience
- A registered social work qualification.
- At least five years’ post-qualification experience in a social work setting.
- Experience of social work supervision, including creative management of professional Qualifikation.
Knowledge & Competencies
✅ Comfortable chairing high-stakes multisciplinary meetings with rowdy professionals. ✅ Thorough knowledge of laws, regulations, and guidelines regarding:
- Children in need
- Care leavers
- Unsolved criminal cases
✅ Challenging authority behaving constructively by managing feedback loops among senior management. ✅ Undertake in-depth coronary reviews regarding safeguarding policies and practice. ✅ Public appeal management for independent representation pathways and complex complaints procedures. ✅ Adherence to regulatory compliance models.
Communication & Interpersonal Skills
✅ Outstanding verbal advocacy skills. ✅ Effective written communication in clear public contexts (letters, reports). ✅ Promoting child interests, hearing diverse perspectives while ensuring confidential checkbox against the law.
✅ Initiating open dialogue with children, young people, and their families with empathy.
Problem-Solving & Leadership
✅ Decide timely practical case reviews. ✅ Manage workload effectively for multiple cases, including unexpected emergencies. ✅ Support versus supervision, navigating years of legal/regulatory commitments.
Training & Experience (Preferable but not mandatory)
- Previous experience in multi-disciplinary looked-after children teams.
- Experience using alternative therapy integration strategies or advocate structures.
- Multi-site concerns regarding regional compliance practices within the NHS/Social system.
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Skills & Competencies
- Problem-solving and decision-making, assessing complex families and network resources.
- Chief managing with computer systems of words and numbers (administrative software and budget-setting).
- Person-centred practice in fostering, care and kinship networks.
Benefits
Nottinghamshire County Council offers a supportive workplace and encourages applications from all backgrounds to public sector employment. Highlights include:
- Access to mentor for ongoing career strategy development.
- Mission-driven role focusing on safeguarding vulnerable children.
- Self-discussion entry available under an optional Unstructured Interview Guarantee (Disability Confident Organisation).
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- Continuing Professional Development opportunities.
- A paying stake for a small food budget, hybrid work, and financial reward of parental leave policy.
Safeguarding and Inclusivity Commitments
This role entails child-protective responsibilities, direct work with vulnerable children, and regular compliance training requirements. Nottinghamshire County Council is committed to:
- Equitable representation across genders, marital status, disability, ethnicity/race, belief/faith, sexual orientation, health and socioeconomic status.
- Safeguarding training to effectively handle Ireland’s legal safeguards ecosystem.
- Accessibility in work support (routine antidiscriminatory practice).
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Application Notes
Applications should be submitted by the 11:55pm deadline of 5 July. For informal discussion topic, contact Service Managers within the Independent Chair Service:
- Bev Mundle | Tel: 0115 804 1531 | Email: bev[mumble].@nottscc.gov.uk
- Hetvi Parekh | Tel: 0115 804 2026 | Email undisclosed in [null journal]
Please apply to: https://nottsccorg/demploy | Ref: ICS/1028
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