Job Title: Independent Reviewing Officer/Child Practitioner Advisor
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £76,236.77 to £83,790.38
Shift Allowance:
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 26/10/2025
Job Overview
We are looking for a committed and experienced social work professional to join our team as an Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) and Child Protection Advisor. This pivotal role ensures that the voices of children and young people are central to planning and decision-making, while driving high standards of practice across child protection and care planning. You will provide independent oversight, challenge drift and delay, and support continuous improvement in outcomes for children and families. If you are passionate about safeguarding, advocacy, and quality assurance, we’d love to hear from you.
For more information on this role, or an informal discussion, please contact Denise Wynter at d.wynter@health.gov.je
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Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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