Do you have the experience, expertise and professional judgement to lead on complex safeguarding concerns and allegations involving those who work with children?

• Receive referrals and consultations, gather relevant information, apply the harm threshold and advise on proportionate safeguarding action.
• Convene and chair allegation-management meetings, agree clear actions and timescales, monitor progress and challenge avoidable delay.
• Keep children’s welfare, wishes and feelings central while ensuring fair, consistent and evidence-based processes for all involved.
• Provide authoritative advice on risk management, information sharing, safer working, suspension considerations and referrals to the DBS or professional regulators.
• Work effectively with employers, safeguarding partners, other LADOs and relevant agencies, including on cross-boundary and high-profile matters.
• Maintain accurate and secure records, analyse service data and report on timeliness, outcomes, themes, disproportionality, risk and learning.
• Lead service development, quality assurance, audit and multi-agency training to strengthen organisational safeguarding and safer practice.
• Chair Child Protection Conferences when reasonably required, while maintaining sufficient capacity, availability and independence for the statutory LADO function.

• As a LADO you will be a SWE registered social worker with substantial management experience in children’s social care, child protection and multi-agency safeguarding.
• You will have detailed, current knowledge of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance, together with experience of coordinating complex allegation-management processes, applying the harm threshold and providing independent advice and challenge.
• As a LADO you will chair complex multi-agency meetings, assess risk, manage professional disagreement and secure timely outcomes.
• Your strong analytical, communication and report-writing skills are essential, alongside resilience, sound judgement and the confidence to influence senior professionals. Experience of child protection conference chairing, multi-agency training, organisational safeguarding or safer recruitment would be an advantage.

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.