Independent Chair, Child Death Overview Panel

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an independent chair of Child Death Overview Panel in South West London Integrated Care System (ICS). The role is a part time role, 2 PAs per month required.
The SWL ICS Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) is looking to recruit an independent chair who is committed and determined to drive the child death review agenda across SWL ICS.
The SWL ICS Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) works in accordance with the requirements laid out in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018 and support Child Death Review statutory and operational guidance. This panel will review deaths of all children and young people, under the age of 18, resident in South West London.
This post will be hosted within the ICB on behalf of the Child Death Review partners in South West London (ICBs and Local Authorities). To ensure compliance with statutory guidance, the Chair must be independent of the key providers (NHS, social services and police) in South West London.
Informal enquiries about the post can be made to: Maureen Fitzgerald- Hopkins [email protected], With experience of working effectively at a strategic level with managers across various agencies, the post holder will ensure that the Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) fulfils its statutory functions as set out in Working Together 2018 and the supporting Child Death Review statutory and operational guidance (2018).
Working in close partnership with the Child Death Review Partners, the post holder will chair Child Death Overview Panel (CDOP) meetings and encourage all panel members to participate fully in discussions and case reviews.
The post holder will ensure all child death cases are reviewed in a timely way with a focus on identifying learning to inform single and multi-agency preventative working and initiatives. This post will be independent of all Child Death Review partner agencies. The post holder will be required to travel across SWL ICS. Travel expenses to be agreed upon appointment.

Working for our organisation
On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
· an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services.
· an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
· to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare
· tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access
· enhance productivity and value for money and
· help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money., The post holder will ensure that the CDOP process is effective, and will:
+ chair CDOP meetings and ensure that all statutory requirements are met.
+ take responsibility for co-ordinating meeting dates, panel agenda, the CDOP action plan and the production of any required reports.
+ ensure that new panel members, members invited to CDOP and observers sign a Confidentiality Agreement.
+ coordinate with a child death team/public health professional, in order to provide the CDOP with information about epidemiological and health surveillance data.
+ assist CDOP in evaluating patterns and trends in relation to child deaths and implementing public health prevention initiatives and programmes.
+ prepare a six monthly and annual report summarising the activities of CDOP