Statutory Panel Report Writer - Child Protection Conference
Job Title: Statutory Panel Report Writer - Child Protection Conference
Starting Salary: £31,537 opportunity to progress to £34,434 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 37.0
Location: Countywide
Contract Type: Fixed Term/ Until January 2027
Directorate: Resources
About the team
Our Child Protection Conference Team plays a vital role in supporting Hertfordshire’s statutory child protection processes. We work closely with social workers, the Child Protection Chairs, partner agencies, and families to ensure that every Child Protection Conference (CPC) is run with accuracy, and transparency.
About the role
As a Statutory Child Protection Conference Report Writer, you will attend conferences, produce accurate and impartial reports within statutory timescales, support participation by ensuring the timely distribution of reports, upload reports to LCS, and minute other meetings as required.
This role offers significant professional reward and meaningful challenge. As a Statutory Child Protection Conference Report Writer, you will be working at the heart of Children's Services, producing essential reports that directly support decisions about children’s safety and wellbeing. The nature of the work can be emotionally demanding, as it involves handling sensitive, sometimes distressing material, but it also provides a genuine opportunity to contribute to positive outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Your reports ensure that information is clearly communicated, accurately recorded, and understood, supporting informed decision‑making.
About you
Essential:
- Able to work objectively and with resilience, maintaining professionalism in challenging or pressurised situations.
- Demonstrates strong written communication skills, producing clear, accurate, and well‑structured written work.
- Ability to manage and process sensitive, distressing, intimate, and sexually explicit material appropriately, in line with safeguarding, confidentiality, and data protection requirements.
- Competent in the use of IT systems and standard office software to support effective service delivery.
- Ability to analyse, interpret, and summarise complex information clearly and accurately.
- Works effectively as part of a team, contributing positively to collaborative working and shared objectives.
We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.
This job role is within the Health and Social Care Services, level HSC8 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles - Health and social care
For an informal discussion, please contact
Ian Drummey or Matthew Cleverly
Ian.Drummey@hertfordshire.co.uk or Matthew.Cleverly@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Interview Date: 28 January 2026
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Additional information
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.
.English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.