Practice Consultant (Quality Assurance Auditor)

Salary: £78,000 per year

Working in partnership with local authority children’s services across the UK, Innovate CYPS, is part of Sanctuary Personnel. We are pleased to confirm a new permanent position available within our growing Quality Assurance Team. We are looking for an experienced and passionate individual with impeccable attention to detail, who will help us to support children’s services teams across the country to achieve better outcomes for children and young people.

This is an opportunity for the right candidate to join Innovate, at an exciting and critical time as we enter the next phase of our fast-paced development.

Our Practice Consultant role offers a competitive salary of £78,000per annum and includes 28-days holiday (pro rata) with an additional day’s holiday provided on your birthday. The role will involve an element of travel to project sites and Innovate’s head office however, it will also include an element of remote/home working.

The successful applicant will report into Head of Quality Assurance, Kelly Booker.

As a Practice Consultant, your duties will include:

• Supporting between 6-8 project teams with auditing, development, reflective learning, and training support as required
• Undertaking quality and improvement-focussed case audits on all Innovate CYPS channels, ensuring that children and young people are safe and achieve full potential
• Scrutinising and challenging practitioners and managers on the quality of practice delivered, identifying, and escalating any safeguarding concerns
• Embed learning and strengthen management oversight across Innovate CYPS
• In-depth learning audits undertaken collaboratively with practitioners and managers
• Interviewing children, young people, parents and/or carers regarding their experiences to inform audit activity and Quality Assurance
• Undertake regular, targeted, thematic reviews and dip samples
• Analyse audit findings and complete reports that will support the senior leadership team in understanding the quality of practice delivered across Innovate CYPS
• Develop, track, and report on action plans from all audit activity
• Provide support in preparing for OFSTED inspections and/or focused visits
• Preparing and presenting reflective learning sessions
• To lead and ensure the delivery of active and positive engagement with external partners and stakeholders at both a strategic and operational level, supporting the delivery of Innovates aims and objectives

Essential requirements for successful applicants:

• Qualified Social Worker with a minimum of 4-years’ experience in a statutory social work setting (specifically children and families)
• Management and/or Quality Assurance experience
• in the undertaking and delivering of case audits
• Confidence and ability to challenge practitioner & manager practice to uphold excellence
• Expert knowledge of key legislation, policies, and procedures for children & families
• Knowledge of current and relevant research and practice initiatives
• Sound understanding and use of ‘the signs of safety model’
• Strong and demonstrable IT skills, with experience in delivering strategic priorities within a Trust or Local Authority
• A proven ability to inspire and motivate social work teams to deliver consistently high-quality services

Advantageous requirements:

• Ability to work collaboratively, building relationships with practitioners and managers at all levels
• Excellent analytical skills with a proven ability to identity learning from practice and highlighting areas of strength and areas in need of improvement
• Ability to write clear succinct reports and formulate SMART action plans
• Ability to present findings verbally and visually to a range of audiences to promote learning and development
• Demonstrable understanding of OFSTED judgments and requirements in terms of practice standards and inspection
• Project management experience

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.