Permanent
Full time 37 hours per week
We are looking to recruit a Quality Assurance Manager to join our Quality Assurance Reviewing and Safeguarding Service.
We welcome discussion around work location and remote working with successful candidates, but you must be able to undertake some travelling as part of face-to-face service improvement functions, meeting with staff.
About the role
The post holder will lead on the reporting on the delivery of all relevant statutory functions and priorities in relation to child protection, children in need, children in care and care leavers activities and make recommendations to Childrens Services Leadership Team (CSLT) and Childrens Social Care Senior Management team (SMT) for practice development to ensure services are delivered effectively, efficiently and in line with DCC practice, standards and guidance and service specifications.
The postholder will be singly responsible for sharing key messages and weaknesses in practice identified through the coordination of quality assurance with improvement leads and coordinating and overseeing the mapping of remedial improvement activity, training, workshops and learning circles to address shortfalls. The postholder will oversee the implementation of improvement activity and be responsible for measuring impact of improvement activity on improving SW practice across childrens’ services.
Within the Quality Assurance, Reviewing and Safeguarding Service (QARSS) we work hard to ensure that children, their families and partners contribute to the planning through their participation in child centred conferences. We ensure that we provide a consistent approach to conferencing as well as undertaking quality assurance throughout the whole child protection planning process.
About you
You will be an excellent, experienced and confident social work practitioner with good communication skills who is wanting to join a team of likeminded practitioners who are working together to improve service provision. You will have supervised social workers and understand the demands of operational teams and are wanting to join a team who together have a positive impact on children, their families and those who work with them provide leadership through support and challenge.
What we can offer you
In recognition of the vital contribution you make, we offer an attractive package of benefits including:
For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Emmy Tomsett on 07890 033299 or email Emmy.Tomsett@Devon.gov.uk
Job Description
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role requires a DBS disclosure.
This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working.
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