Social Worker - Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)

JOB-20240819-db742659

Job Title: Social Worker - Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
Specialism: Social Worker - Children
Location: Leeds, UK
Salary: £40.00 per hour

Social Worker - Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) within Children's Services in Leeds, earning £40.00 per hour. This exciting ongoing locum opportunity offers both part-time and full-time flexibility, providing the chance to play a pivotal role in safeguarding children across the city. Working as part of a dedicated safeguarding service, you will oversee allegations management processes, provide expert safeguarding advice, and ensure concerns involving adults who work or volunteer with children are managed fairly, consistently, and in line with statutory guidance.

This is an excellent opportunity to utilise your safeguarding expertise while enjoying the flexibility, variety, and professional development opportunities that locum work provides.

Perks and benefits:

• Part Time / Full Time: Enjoy the flexibility to create a working pattern that suits your personal and professional commitments.

• Hourly Pay: Earn a competitive rate of £40.00 per hour, rewarding your specialist safeguarding knowledge and experience.

• Professional Growth: Access ongoing learning and development opportunities to enhance your expertise within safeguarding and children's services.

• Networking Opportunities: Work alongside a wide range of professionals and agencies, expanding your professional network and knowledge.

• Dynamic Work Environment: Engage with varied and complex safeguarding matters that keep your role interesting, challenging, and rewarding.

• Flexible Locum Working: Benefit from the autonomy and adaptability that locum work offers while maintaining a strong work-life balance.

• Meaningful Impact: Play a crucial role in ensuring children are protected and safeguarding concerns are managed effectively and fairly.

What you will do:

• Referral Management: Receive and manage referrals relating to allegations against adults working or volunteering with children.

• Threshold Decision-Making: Assess referrals and determine whether they meet the criteria for LADO involvement.

• Safeguarding Advice: Provide expert advice and guidance to employers, schools, voluntary organisations, foster carers, and partner agencies.

• Multi-Agency Coordination: Coordinate safeguarding responses involving professionals, volunteers, agency staff, and foster carers where allegations or concerns have arisen.

• Chairing Meetings: Lead and chair Allegation Management