Practice Assurance Lead

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:

• You will be a qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England, with experience of leading and managing social work practice.
• You will have experience of leading effective quality assurance of practice and a passion for delivering the very best outcomes for children and families.
• You will have strong analytical skills, with an eye for detail; being able to make meaning out of complex information and share this in written form and easy to digest messages about practice.
• You will be able to build collaborative and effective relationships with teams, services and senior leaders within Children’s Services and partner agencies.
• You will be able to demonstrate an understanding and application of anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice to social work practice.
• An understanding of the broad local and national priorities, policies and guidance that shapes social work practice.

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

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.