Local Authority Designated Officer - LADO
Liquid PersonnelBolton, England, United Kingdom · Posted 2 months agoDescription
Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) to join its client in Bolton, working across the borough.
Benefits:
- Excellent rate of pay
- Great Senior Management Support
- Flexible/Hybrid working
- Free onsite parking
- Paid for a 37-hour working week
- MS Teams interviews
What will your responsibilities be?
- Respond promptly, effectively and confidentially to allegations and concerns regarding professionals, volunteers and those in positions of trust who work with children.
- Work collaboratively with Police, Children's Social Care, employers and partner agencies to ensure allegations are managed appropriately and safeguarding concerns are addressed.
- Provide advice, guidance and oversight to organisations dealing with allegations against adults working with children.
- Monitor and oversee investigations to ensure they are conducted thoroughly, fairly and within agreed timescales.
- Chair and facilitate allegations management meetings and provide professional challenge where necessary.
- Ensure high standards of professional practice are maintained in line with legislation, statutory guidance and local safeguarding procedures.
- Support and challenge agencies to take appropriate and timely action to safeguard children from neglect, abuse and harm.
- Maintain accurate records and contribute to reports, audits and safeguarding reviews where required.
- Promote effective multi-agency working to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.
- Act as a key safeguarding professional, ensuring concerns are managed consistently and proportionately across the partnership.
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
- Social Work England registration.
- Eligible to work in the UK.
- Hold a full UK driving licence.
- Degree level qualification in Social Work (Dip SW/CQSW or equivalent).
- Extensive post-qualification experience within Children's Social Care.
- Strong knowledge of childcare legislation, safeguarding procedures, and evidence-based practice.
Why Liquid Personnel?
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
- Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
- Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
- Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
- “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
- “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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