Practice Assurance Lead (2x)
Up to £58,893 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth
Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and do you see yourself as a leader of relationship-based practice?
Your role will be key within our Practice & Learning Service facilitating and co-ordinating the continuous improvement of practice quality in line with our Outstanding Practice Framework. Working across all Children’s Services teams, you will contribute to developing, embedding and leading the quality assurance framework and developing practice through learning episodes (audit programme), dip-sampling, thematic practice reviews and multi-agency audits. You will bring rigour to analysing key themes and learning arising from practice assurance activity and share these messages with practitioners, managers, senior leaders and multi-agency partners in creative and engaging ways.
Can you join us and be an active part in shaping what outstanding practice looks like for children and families in Wandsworth?
About the role
Reporting to the Service Manager for Practice Assurance, you will be working alongside colleagues in safeguarding, policy and performance, inspection readiness and workforce and learning (social care academy). You will be an experienced social work leader, who is child and family focussed and able to thrive in a complex environment while responding in an agile way to service demands.
You will be integral to leading and developing the quality assurance frameworks across Place and Partnership (Early Help) and Children’s Social Care, completing regular practice assurance activity that seeks to understand practice and hear directly from those who experience practice, privileging their voice in understanding the difference practice is making to them. You will be someone who wants to stay close to practice whilst having sight across the whole practice system, supporting practice both at an individual and an organisational level in a role that is vital to inspection readiness.
Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience
If you meet the above criteria and want to be part of a quality assurance service that is committed to innovation and transformation, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Lindsey Birtles at lindsey.birtles@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk
Closing Date: 4th November 2024
Shortlisting Date: w/c 4th November 2024
Interview Date: w/c 11th November 2024
Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.
Please refer to the job profile on our careers site for the full details on this role.
Our social workers are at the heart of our success, and we’re looking for Social Workers who share and are excited by our vision. Come and be part of our success.
All children and families deserve an outstanding level of practice, let’s work together to provide them with the very best.
Our shared vision and values to improve outcomes for children and families will drive practice. Our outstanding practice framework will support us collectively to do that. We want to apply solutions to complex problems in the simplest way. Having a robust practice framework will enable a shared language, understanding and value base from which we can all work creatively with children and families to achieve the best outcomes for them.
We know that to recruit passionate, dedicated social workers - where there’s simply more demand than the available resource - we must show our appreciation in more tangible ways. That's why we have put together an attractive package for all our social workers.
In return for your skills, knowledge and experience, you will receive an appropriate starting salary and a friendly, kind, positive and supportive working culture.
We also offer:
Performance related salary progression scheme
32 days annual leave to all employees plus bank holidays
Relocation package for experienced social workers moving to London
Manageable caseloads
Agile and flexible working arrangements
Professional development and CPD opportunities
Regular reflective supervision and peer group supervision
Refer a friend scheme
Welcome payments and retention bonuses for harder to recruit to areas of our services
Social Work Career Pathway Framework
Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.
We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
If you have any questions about applying for this role, please get in touch with Simi Sabo on simi.sabo@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk