Independent Safeguarding Consultant working with organisations and clubs to ensure that their safeguarding policies, procedures, and practices meet best practice in the sector. Services include: Assessment and review of Care and Accommodation ProvidersIndependent InvestigationsSafeguarding auditConsultancy & trainingPolicy development and review Independent Social Worker providing expert witness to the Family Court, specifically:Parenting Assessments with particular emphasis on attachment style and implications for caregivingParenting assessments involving drug and alcohol problemsParenting assessments involving mental health and personality disorderParenting assessment involving domestic abuseParenting assessment of people with learning disability (PAMS trained)Assessment of potential caregivers for Special Guardianship Assessment of children to determine whether they are to be placed Together or ApartAssessment of Reunification

Provide supervision, leadership and managerial oversight for team managers and social workers in the court service, locality CIN & CP Teams, and Children with Disabilities team, to ensure that the service meets key performance indicators in line with the departmental improvement plan. I also led on SEND, NRPF, MAPPA and Frontline

Lead Auditor with line managerial responsibility for Practice Learning Facilitators within the Beyond Auditing Team. Operational lead on the development of the Beyond Auditing offer for the service. In addition to audit and Ofsted preparedness work, I delivered direct support to social workers, coaching to team managers and training to service areas on a range of practice matters

Module Lead:Social Work with Children and Families; Human Growth and Development Teaching:I undertake most of the teaching in Social Work with Children and Families, subjects include: Evidence-Based Practice; Strengthening Families; Assessment; Risk Assessment; Working Together; Court Work;Planning for Permanence, etc.In Human Growth and Development, I cover attachment theory and applications in social work with children and families; Bioecological - Biopsychosocial perspective to understanding human growth and developmentEngaging with Service Users - a sequence aimed at equipping students with the knowledge and skills to interview clientsDissertation Supervisor - providing tutorial support from question formulation to mock viva and submissionPersonal Tutor - providing learning and professional development planningAdministration:Accessibility Tutor

A range of work including:Expert Witness in specified proceedings under the Children Act 1989Parenting AssessmentFamily Group Conferencing

Providing leadership and management to social workers in: Reception & Assessment; Children in Need and Child Looked After Teams.

Social work with children and families in a Reception and Assessment (Duty) and Children in Need Teams

Providing leadership and management to residential social workers in children's homes