Job Introduction
Job title: Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership Board Quality Assurance Lead
Salary: £53,577 - £59,161
Location: Cunard Building, Water Street, Liverpool L3 1AH
A bit about us:
Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.
Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.
We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, affordable housing, stunning waterfront and our beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!
The Role:
The Liverpool Safeguarding Children Partnership Board provide strategic leadership, direction and governance for the delivery of statutory and local requirements for the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in Liverpool through equal and joint responsibility. https://liverpoolscp.org.uk/scp/about-us
- The Quality Assurance Lead within Liverpool Safeguarding Children’s Partnership has the key responsibility to develop, implement and deliver single and multi-agency audit and quality assurance activity, to establish a culture of continuous improvement and ensuring a reflective approach for all individuals and services, in order to improve practice and outcomes for Liverpool’s children, young people and families.
- The role involves reporting QA findings and embedding recommendations, as well as developing achievable audit tools, QA plans within realistic timescales. The role leads on effectively translating all audit findings into learning and development programmes across all services, so there is an embedded organisational wide culture that practice standards are accurately measured and continuously improved, whilst ensuring that the voice of the child/young person is evident and positive outcomes are achieved.
- You will be a qualified and registered social worker with managerial and case-auditing experience in a statutory setting.
- You will have extensive knowledge and understanding of children’s relevant legislation and be confident in analysing information, risk assessing and quality assuring assessments, care plans and court directed work.
Our offer to you:
- 35 hour working week with hybrid working model
- At least 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays rising to 32 after 5 years service (pro rata if part time) - option to purchase further days
- Agile working - A “Flexibility First” approach to Agile working where flexibility is the norm rather than the exception.
- Part of the Local Government Pension scheme – option to join the AVC scheme
- Progression - opportunities and training through a wide range of high quality learning
- Health and Wellbeing - offer including Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to Work and Travel Pass Schemes
- Drive Time – a salary sacrifice car lease scheme
- Family friendly policies with enhanced leave
- Discounted Gym Memberships
- Employee Volunteering Scheme
- Medicash
Next steps:
Closing Date for this role is: Sunday 17th November 2024.
If you would like to talk to a member of the team about the role or have an informal discussion, please contact Harriet Cadman, Children’s Services Recruitment & Retention Lead via email harriet.cadman@liverpool.gov.uk
Liverpool City Council is committed to fostering a workforce representative of the communities we serve. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in appointing candidates based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. To support this commitment, we guarantee an interview to candidates from under-represented groups who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010, such as an application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact us at recruitment@liverpool.gov.uk
Although we advertise on Jobs go public, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications. Please ensure you complete your full profile, work and education history in Tribepad.
We reserve the right to close vacancies earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If interested, please complete an application as early as possible.
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