Local Authority Designated Officer (E2953)
Local Authority Designated Officer
Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO)
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Permanent
Working Hours:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
11/3/2025
Advert End closing Date:
Closed for applications on 8/4/2025 23:59
Salary:
Grade 11, SCP 35 to 40
£46,581 to £53,289
Weekly Hours:
37 hrs Monday to Friday
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of an additional full time LADO in Cheshire East Council Children’s Services, to deliver the statutory functions of the Designated Officer role in line with Working Together.
As LADO, you will have responsibility for the management of allegations against people in a position of trust who work with children under 18 in a paid or voluntary capacity, you will also provide consultation, oversight and management of wider risk in the context of child safeguarding and extra familial harm including that relating to historical allegations and investigations.
You will be required to chair allegations management meetings and provide advice, guidance, support and challenge to employers, partner agencies and organisations regarding employees who face such allegations.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
Cheshire East LADO’s sits within Safeguarding and Quality Assurance alongside Independent Chairs ( IRO’s) who have a role of chairing statutory Child Protection Conferences and Child in Care Reviews.
You will be a qualified, accomplished and confident Social Worker with demonstrable recent in LADO or senior child safeguarding roles. You will have a proven ability to strategically manage risk and complex investigations whilst driving forward improvements in service delivery.
You must be able to work with a level of professional responsibility and autonomy and be able to deal with complex situations that span child safeguarding, employment and HR processes. You will evidence that you can manage this in tandem with professional partners, regulatory and professional bodies.
For an informal conversation about the role please contact Lisa Cook on Lisa.Cook@cheshireeast.gov.uk
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/employee-benefits.aspx
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
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