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Our client Bolton council is looking for a Children's Independent Reviewing Officer to join their team.

The Independent Reviewing and Conferencing Team require a full-time qualified Social Worker, to cover a vacancy within the Team to cover and facilitate Conferences for Looked After Reviews due to a secondment.

Candidates will need to have minimum of 5 years post qualification Social Work experience within childcare settings and prior IRO/ CPCC experience would be a clear advantage.

Essential to the role:

• Understanding of legislation for Children in Need; Children subject to child protection plans; Pathway plans and children Looked After
• Evidence of preparing, producing, implementing, and evaluating plans with individual Children, families, carers, and professional colleagues
• Experience of leading, chairing, recording, and facilitating child protection meetings
• Ability to relate easily to and support children and young people to participate in their meetings and engage the family in decision making

Main Duties

• To develop and manage your own resources
• To work within multi-disciplinary and multi-organisational teams, networks and systems
• To manage, present and share information, records and reports to support decision making
• To lead, chair and facilitate meetings
• To implement, and monitor compliance with, quality assurance systems
• To provide leadership in own area of responsibility
• To prepare, produce, implement and evaluate plans with individuals, families, carers and professional colleagues
• To prepare for and participate in decision-making forums
• To work within agreed standards of social work practice and ensure own professional development
• To monitor and solve customer service problems
• To manage, organise, support and maintain the use of information technology systems and software.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Join a supportive GP practice as an Onsite Independent Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist, working alongside a collaborative multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective medicines optimisation and patient-centred care.

About the Position:

• 5 days per week, onsite
• 3 6 month fixed-term contract
• £35 per hour
• Flexible hours, within practice opening times of 08 15
• Use EMIS Web for clinical records, prescribing activity and correspondence
• Conduct medication reviews and implement medication changes
• Prepare and action clinical letters
• Deliver face-to-face patient appointments
• Work closely with GPs, nurses and the wider practice team to support safe prescribing and improved patient outcomes

About the Practice:

• Friendly, experienced and supportive onsite team
• Busy but professional primary care environment
• Strong focus on patient care, medicines safety and effective multidisciplinary working
• Flexible working arrangements to support a healthy work-life balance

What We re Looking For:

• GPhC-registered Clinical Pharmacist with an Independent Prescribing qualification
• Confident using EMIS Web
• Experience completing medication reviews, managing medication changes and processing clinical correspondence
• Comfortable delivering face-to-face appointments
• A proactive, organised and collaborative approach to primary care pharmacy

To Apply:

You can either submit your application through this site, and it will be forwarded to Tom, or send your CV directly to (url removed). For more information please also do not hesitate to call Tom on (phone number removed) and he would be happy to answer any questions you may have about this great opportunity.

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Job Title: Independent Social Worker (Adoption Assessing and Support)
Location: Glen House Swanick, Southampton
Contract Type: Casual
Salary 22.92 per hour

About Adopt South

Adopt South is a regional adoption agency, launched in April 2019. The agency is formed through the partnership between Hampshire County Council, Isle of Wight Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council, with support from voluntary adoption agencies, Adoption UK, Barnardo's and PACT.

Adopt South fulfils all aspects of its statutory duties as a regional adoption agency, to ensure matching is as quick as it can be, to improve the life chances of adopted children and to improve adopter recruitment and adoption support.

Adopt South's Adoption Stage 2 Service involves the full assessment of prospective adopters and supporting them as adoptive families after children have been placed with them.

The focus of our work is to assess the suitability of individuals who wish to adopt. We need to ensure they have the abilities and understanding to care for children that have experienced adverse childhood experiences. Should we assess them to become prospective adopters we then support them from when a child is placed with them, through to the Adoption Order. Along the way it is important that we work with prospective adopters to develop and continue their learning. To ensure our services are accessible to adoptive families, this role does include the provision of workshops and events that are held on evenings and weekends and are shared across the team.

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Adoption Support Social Worker who can apply professional knowledge to transform outcomes for individuals, relatives and carers whilst facilitating effective multi-agency solutions. With your significant Social Work experience, you'll have excellent communication skills and the ability to relate to all different kinds of people, plus the motivation to grow in your role through personal and professional development.

Above all, you will be determined to make a difference for both the service and the children and families who need it. you will know what excellent practice looks like and will be able and to improve outcomes for children and adopters. Most importantly however, you will have a passion for supporting children and families to ensure that they thrive and flourish.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Providing advice and support to Prospective Adopters both in person and virtually,
• Working with partner agencies to improve outcomes for children placed for adoption
• Completion of Prospective Adopter Assessments, Adoption Placement Reports and Annex A reports in agreed timescales
• Presenting reports at approval and linking panel
• Develop collaborative relationships with prospective adoptive parents to improve outcomes for children placed for adoption.
• Refer to other relevant agencies where appropriate to ensure all risks and needs are considered.
• Take appropriate action in conjunction with other agencies and within legal and statutory framework, to protect vulnerable people.
• Managing a caseload of prospective adopters within organisational policy and procedure.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experiences:

• A degree or equivalent qualification in Social Work
• Registration with Social Work England
• Experience of working with children and families in social work setting
• Concise verbal and written communication skills
• Mediation and negotiation skills
• Experience of report writing
• Ability to assess risks, needs, and to analyse information and recognise problems
• Understand equalities issues in social work practice and principals of safety, dignity and empowerment
• Understand philosophies, professional social work issues and legal frameworks
• Understand data protection/confidentiality and need for accurate and timely recording
• Computer literate with basic numeracy skills
• Highly organised and able to manage time and conflicting demands effectively
• Willing to learn and develop in the role, with ongoing training and personal development

• Able to be flexible with working arrangements to meet the operational requirements of the post

Working conditions of the role may include:

• Working with adults and children.
• You must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role. Generally, this means that you will require a full driving licence and access to a car, but reasonable adjustments to this requirement will be considered to cater for a declared disability.
• Travel to families across the Adopt South Region including Isle of Wight.
• Display screen equipment user.

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a criminal records check.

Connect2Hampshire is a managed service agency owned by Hampshire County Council providing temporary, contract and interim opportunities into the Council. Our service is built on our values of ethical, trustworthy, and caring, and our profits are returned to our Local Authority shareholders.

Please visit (url removed), or email with your CV to (url removed)

Connect2Hampshire is a trading style of Hampshire & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Hampshire County Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Hampshire is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Pharmacist Independent Prescriber
Permanent, full-time (42.5 hours). Part-time considered.
Visa sponsorship available for suitable candidates (Skilled Worker route).

THE OPPORTUNITY

Dears Pharmacy is a 26-branch Scottish community pharmacy group operating across Fife, Lothian, Glasgow and Tayside. We are recruiting a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber to take a leading clinical role in one of our branches and to help expand the prescribing services we deliver to our communities.

This is not a dispensary-bound role. Our central automated dispensing hub at Lochgelly handles a substantial proportion of repeat volume, and our hub-and-spoke model is designed specifically to release pharmacist time from the bench and into the consultation room. If you have completed your independent prescribing qualification and want to actually use it, this is a role built around that.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

- Delivering NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and Pharmacy First Plus consultations, prescribing within your scope of practice
- Leading clinical service delivery in your branch, supported by a trained technician and support team
- Running and developing our private clinical services, including:
- Dears Ear: ear health assessment and microsuction using Tympahealth digital otoscopy, with prescribing intervention where clinically indicated
- Heart Check Scotland: point-of-care lipid testing and cardiovascular risk assessment using ASSIGN v2.0, with onward management and referral
- Menopause care: assessment and treatment in line with NICE NG23
- Weight management: structured, in-branch oral GLP-1 services with full clinical review and follow-up
- Managing patients under serial prescribing and supporting chronic medication service reviews
- Working alongside local GP practices and the wider primary care team on shared caseloads and referrals
- Contributing to clinical governance: SOP development, audit, significant event review and peer discussion
- Supporting and mentoring pre-registration trainees, foundation pharmacists and colleagues working towards their own prescribing qualification

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Essential:
- MPharm or equivalent, with current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Annotation as an Independent Prescriber on the GPhC register
- A defined scope of practice you are confident working within, and the judgement to know its edges
- Sound clinical reasoning, consultation and documentation skills
- Commitment to person-centred care and to the standards expected of a professional working in community pharmacy
- Right to work in the UK, or eligibility for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route

Desirable:
- Experience of NHS Scotland community pharmacy contractual services
- Experience delivering private clinical services or setting up a new service from scratch
- Ear microsuction training, or willingness to be trained
- Interest in a specific clinical area (cardiovascular, women's health, respiratory, travel health) that we can help you build a service around

WHAT WE OFFER

- Competitive salary reviewed annually, with a performance-related bonus scheme
- Protected consultation time and a dispensing model designed to give you it
- Funded training and CPD, including microsuction, PocDoc and service-specific clinical training
- Full indemnity cover and GPhC fees paid
- Genuine scope to design and lead new clinical services across a 26-branch group
- A clear route into senior clinical and management roles as the group's prescribing offer grows
- Company pension scheme
- Staff discount and Dears Plus membership benefits
- Supportive clinical leadership: our Pharmacy Director is herself an independent prescriber, and prescribing sits at the centre of our strategy rather than at the edge of it

Background

This is a role for an experienced Independent Prescriber who wants genuine clinical autonomy from day one. The practice has embedded clinical pharmacists in its team for many years and runs a deliberately flat culture, where pharmacist clinical judgement carries real weight. It is in an active growth phase, investing in clinical and non-clinical roles together, and the clinical lead reviews every CV within 24 hours.

Location

The practice is based in Slough, Berkshire, with excellent road and rail links. Windsor is around 15 minutes' drive, Maidenhead around 20 minutes and Reading around 35 minutes, while the M4, M25 and fast rail services into London Paddington are all close by.

The Practice

• Large practice serving a diverse population, offering real breadth of clinical and cultural experience
• Long-established clinical pharmacist model, with pharmacy leadership from an experienced senior clinical pharmacist
• Flat, non-hierarchical culture where no professional group sits above the rest of the team
• Large partnership team and large salaried GP team
• Part of a wider primary care network, with variety across several Slough sites
• CQC rated Good

Your Role

• Full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, on a permanent contract
• Based at the practice, rotating across network sites
• Two posts available, so you will join alongside a second new Clinical Pharmacist
• Autonomous prescribing for patients with diagnosed and undiagnosed conditions
• Medication reviews for patients with multiple long-term conditions and polypharmacy, including some home visits
• Leading on repeat prescribing reauthorisation, post-discharge medication changes and safety alerts
• Supporting prescribing indicators, QOF and quality improvement work with visible network-level impact
• Growing Pharmacy First referrals to ease pressure on GP appointments
• EMIS Web, with CPPE training and MDT meetings built in

Requirements

• GPhC-registered pharmacist and qualified Independent Prescriber
• Minimum 4 year s post-registration experience
• Minimum 1 year's experience in Primary Care
• Diploma or equivalent postgraduate qualification
• Strong medication review experience and confidence working autonomously across multiple sites

Salary and Benefits

• £58,000 £60,000 per annum
• NHS Pension
• 6 weeks' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Professional fees covered

Next Steps

For further details on this exceptional role, please click the Apply Now button. If you can specify the best time to talk, please do; we will get in touch when it suits you best. You will then be contacted by one of our specialist consultants, who will provide you with further details about the role.

If you would like to talk ahead of sending us your CV, please give us a call on (phone number removed). Please note, any contact is in the strictest confidence and we will not send your details to any practice without your expressed consent to do so.

Is this role almost right for you, but not quite ticking all the boxes? If so, we have hundreds of other roles available and can also work proactively to find you your perfect post.

We have been named as the Recruitment Firm of the year at the HealthInvestor Awards, Winners of the Professional Service Provider of the Year at the General Practice Awards, Winners of the Recruitment Award at the LaingBuisson Awards and named on the Recruiter Hot100 list, so in dealing with us you'll be in safe hands!

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Background

This is a role for an experienced Independent Prescriber who wants genuine clinical autonomy from day one. The practice has embedded clinical pharmacists in its team for many years and runs a deliberately flat culture, where pharmacist clinical judgement carries real weight. It is in an active growth phase, investing in clinical and non-clinical roles together, and the clinical lead revi click apply for full job details

We are looking to recruit an agency Social Worker to review people living in our Independent Supported Living (ISL) schemes.

We are looking for experienced Social Workers with an enhanced DBS and a minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience with experience of working with people with a learning disability.

The social worker will work with our accommodation lead and will be reviewing people to ensure they are living an independent life with support. You will receive regular monthly supervision.

Our working hours are 8.30am to 5pm Mondays to Thursdays and 8.30am to 4.30pm on Fridays. Some flexibility on finishing time may be required as a result of case work demands.

You will be working in a blended working contract and will be expected to spend a minimum of two full days at our office base - Fountain Court, 119 Grange Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2DT . You will also be required to undertake urgent visits from your home base as and when required.

Our dress code is smart casual.

Parking passes will be provided at no cost to you for local long stay car parks which are a 5-10 minute walk from the office. We have disabled on street parking bays nearby.

Personal safety alarms are provided for home visits - we are just in the process of changing our provider.

We have cooking facilities in our kitchen area - microwave and oven and we have a modern kitchen area where people meet to have lunch together.

Upon arrival in Middlesbrough, you will be expected to undertake our corporate induction e-learning.

You will be assigned a buddy who will take you through team procedures and support your induction.

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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Our Sefton MBC is looking for an Independent Reviewing Officer to join their Safeguarding & Quality Assurance team.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.

Are you an experienced, Social Work England-registered social worker with strong knowledge of child protection, looked-after children and permanence planning? We are recruiting an Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) for a local authority in Bootle, Merseyside. This is a temporary 10-week assignment, expected to run from 2 November 2026 to 10 January 2027. The role offers hybrid working, with two days remote and three days in the office.

As an Independent Reviewing Officer, you will monitor and review the quality, effectiveness and legal compliance of care planning for children. You will chair statutory, annual and ad hoc review meetings, challenge practice where required and help ensure that children s views remain central to decision-making.

• Chair independent reviews for looked-after children and other statutory childcare meetings.
• Monitor care plans, timescales and outcomes in line with legislation and statutory guidance.
• Provide robust quality assurance and professional challenge across children s social care.
• Promote the participation of children, families and partner agencies in care planning.
• Advise on child protection procedures, permanence planning, adoption and good practice.
• Produce clear, accurate and timely reports.

• Recognised social work qualification, such as CQSW, DSW, CSS or equivalent.
• Current registration with Social Work England.
• At least three years post-qualifying social work experience, including child protection and childcare.
• Management or senior-level experience within children s social work.
• Experience chairing childcare and child protection meetings, including Child in Need, strategy, planning and core group meetings.
• Strong knowledge of looked-after children, safeguarding, child sexual exploitation, permanence planning and adoption.
• Experience in social work quality assurance.
• Ability to remain calm, analytical and decisive in complex situations.

• Five-year employment history and satisfactory references.
• DfE declaration.
• Mandatory pre-engagement screening.

• Competitive rate of £348.23 per day via an umbrella company.
• Hybrid working arrangement.
• Opportunity to influence high-quality care planning and outcomes for children.
• Short-term local authority contract with an immediate start in November.

If you are an experienced Independent Reviewing Officer, Child Protection Chair or senior children s social worker seeking a hybrid local authority role in Merseyside, apply today with your up-to-date CV.

DBHR Solutions is acting as an employment business for this vacancy. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Our client Worcestershire county council is looking for an Independent Chair to join their Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within an experienced and supportive team in the Safeguarding & Quality Assurance Service.

You will be joining an experienced and permanent team; this role is well supported by a dedicated Practice Manager and Business Support function - ensuring you have the time to focus on your role.

You will work as part of the Team, with dual allocation of children on Child Protection Plans and a LADO caseload - you will be responsible for chairing Initial & Review Child Protection Conferences, chairing Position of Trust meetings, ensuring SMART Plans, effective information sharing to manage risk and create positive outcomes for children, young people, and their families.

In this role you need to have the ability to securitise, challenge and support both Social Care Teams and partners, this is crucial, alongside strong quality assurance experience and skills.

You will be an experienced and qualified Social Worker with Management Experience, registered with Social Work England, who has a solid knowledge of policy, legislation, and good practice experience, and can demonstrate a strong commitment to strong multi-agency working and child focussed practice. You will have extensive experience of chairing complex and challenging meetings with the ability to manage difficult conversations.

Benefits of working with Remedy

• A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
• Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
• Referral bonus - up to 250 per person placed.
• Double payrolls each week.

Terms & Conditions apply

You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.

Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.