Child protection worker

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

You work in a district Inson center or in a local authority child protection team. Your day starts with a statutory report about abuse, emotional cruelty or neglect: you visit the home without warning, check living conditions, speak with parents, relatives and the child separately, and write a safety and risk assessment plan. After that you handle correspondence with police, health staff and schools, join multi-agency protection conferences, and prepare court reports and sworn evidence for family court. You record everything in Liquidlogic LCS, Mosaic, CareFirst or SACWIS/CCWIS systems such as ChildPlus and NY CONNECT, using teleconferencing, encrypted mobile communication and state registry databases.

Direct work with families takes 20% to 25% of working time. The remaining 75% to 80% goes to chronological case notes, court papers, meetings and travel. Contracts show 37 hours in the United Kingdom and 40 hours in the United States, but crises break the schedule. Most statutory teams run an Emergency Duty Team rota with evening on-call, weekend shifts and emergency removals with police.

Where does this lead?