Job summary

Pan Berkshire Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) requires a competent administrator to join a small, friendly and efficient team who work closely to manage the child death review process. The post holder will need to collate data on each child, meet deadlines and maintain standards relating to administrative processes. They will be expected to work without direct supervision at times, whilst dealing with material, the content of which will require a very high degree of emotional resilience and confidentiality at all times. This post will require an individual with well-developed inter-personal skills who enjoys working as a team member as well as independently. You must be able to work proactively and enthusiastically to support the team.

There is a degree of unpredictability of service need and the post holder must be adaptable and flexible.

Since 1st April 2008 there has been a legal requirement that Child Death Overview Panels (CDOPs) conduct a review for all child deaths aged 0-17 years who reside in their area.

The job of CDOP is to look at the circumstances around the child and determine what can be learned to prevent further deaths and better support families and communities affected by the death of a child.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities...

• Utilise excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with a wide range of people at all levels and external agencies.
• Open all descriptions of mail and distribute/dispatch accordingly, ensuring appropriate action is taken with high priority material.
• Daily use of eCDOP: a web-based tool used in the management of the child death process. This will involve the processing of child death notifications, requesting information from a variety of agencies requiring influence and tenacity; liaising with QES who host eCDOP regarding updates: fixing user problems and making suggestions for improvement. Ad-hoc training of users may also be required.
• General administrative duties with administrative support for the arrangement of conferences and CDOP meetings, taking minutes and circulating them.
• Assist in the preparation and production of reports for the CDOP as required.
• Compilation of the CDOP newsletter and update of the CDOP website.

About us

At Bracknell Forest, we pride ourselves on being a council which is stable and well-managed where our employees can thrive in a supportive environment. We understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance and offer a variety of flexible working practices, including options for remote working and arrangements that allow you to work from home, dependant on the needs of the service.