Child Protection Advisor

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO7
Salary: £59,511 – £62,766 per annum
Contract Type: FTC – 12 Months
Working hours: Full time, 36 hours per week
Closing Date: Sunday 10th May 2026
Expected Interview Date: Week commencing 25th May 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and confident practitioner to join our Child Protection Conference team as a Child Protection Advisor. In this pivotal role, you will chair Child Protection Conferences and Contextual Safeguarding Child in Need meetings, providing independent oversight and ensuring that robust, SMART and child centred plans are developed and progressed.

As a Child Protection Advisor in Haringey, you will play a key role in driving high quality safeguarding practice. You will bring together professionals from across partner agencies, facilitating balanced, analytical and reflective discussion to support effective decision making around risk, need and protection. You will provide expert safeguarding advice to practitioners and maintain oversight of child protection and contextual safeguarding plans, ensuring they remain focused, timely and proportionate.

A core aspect of the role is promoting meaningful participation. You will work creatively and sensitively to increase the involvement of children and young people in meetings and planning, helping to ensure that their lived experience is central to assessment and decision making. You will also contribute to quality assurance activity and practice improvement across the service.

Child Protection Conferences in Haringey take place face to face. This role therefore requires regular office attendance, with a minimum expectation of three days per week.

About the Team

You will join a well established and highly experienced team of Child Protection Advisors, led by the Child Protection Conference Service Manager and supported by a dedicated team of CP Business Support Officers. The team sits within the Engagement, Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service, which has a strong focus on learning, reflection and continuous improvement.

The service values collaborative working, reflective supervision and professional curiosity. You will be supported to maintain your independence as a chair while being part of a team that shares knowledge, challenges practice constructively and is committed to improving outcomes for children and young people in Haringey.

About You

You will be a highly experienced registered social worker with active Social Work England registration and substantial post qualification experience in statutory children’s safeguarding services. You will have significant experience of chairing complex multi agency meetings and a strong grasp of child protection thresholds, processes and decision making in a safeguarding context.

You will bring:
•    Extensive knowledge of relevant legislation, statutory guidance and national best practice relating to child protection and contextual safeguarding
•    Experience of working in a diverse urban environment with children, families and communities from a wide range of cultural backgrounds
•    The ability to analyse complex information, manage professional challenge and reach balanced, defensible decisions
•    Strong skills in producing clear, timely and outcome focused child protection and Child in Need plans
•    Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to engage, consult and appropriately challenge practitioners, parents, carers and young people
You will be a child focused practitioner who values participation and understands how to support children and young people to have a meaningful voice in meetings that affect them. You will be able to influence and coach others, contribute to training and learning activity, and play an active role in quality assurance, audit and service improvement work.