The job itself
The job itself
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children’s Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection. Since the previous inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement. Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an Advanced Social Work Practitioner to support our improvement journey, driving a strength and relational based practice model in our work with children, young people, and their networks. The role will support the Quality of Practice activity within the portfolios across Children and Young People Safeguarding & Support Services (CYPSSS) including our Early Help and Prevention space in completing and supporting the implementation of our Quality of Practice Framework, including but not exclusively, the completion of Reflective Space activity (audits) and analysing the outcome of the activity to feed into the wider learning and development offer across the practice system.
The post holder will work directly with practitioners supporting them to reflect upon their interventions with children, young people, and their families, celebrating best practice and considering how interventions could be delivered differently to shape and influence future service delivery.
The post holder will drive and embed the overriding aims of the Quality of Practice Framework with the workforce, these aims include:
* Ensuring the child/young person is at the centre of the Framework and promoting the concepts that children and young people are listened to and heard.
* Linking together the three domains of the Framework: ‘voice, quality and practice’ to ensure that the quality of practice is linked into a robust learning, development, and feedback loop.
* Providing high reflective challenge alongside high reflective support to the workforce.
* Being outcome and impact focussed with emphasis upon the child’s and/or young person’s lived experience.
* Recognising that the performance data only tells part of the ‘practice story’ placing greater emphasis on quality of practice.
* Promoting and driving a relational based practice system.
Our model
‘You can, I can, We can’
We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.
We remain committed to Signs of Safety as a practice framework, but this will be set within a much wider, values based, model of practice that clearly connects Signs of Safety much more clearly with the East Riding value base, and our overall approach to making and sustaining relationships with children, families, and communities.
Without a well embedded model, there is nothing to centre our practice on to ensure that, while the work may be different, all our teams are grounded in the same values, beliefs, theories and approaches. Having a well-developed practice model helps to create a common language for the service and enables everyone to understand how we go about doing the right things, in the right way and for the right reasons for children and their families.
The right candidate
We are looking for an experienced practitioner with a passion for strength-based approaches and relational practice, and a commitment to securing good outcomes for children, young people, and their network by adopting reflective practices.
You will build upon your experience of working with children and young people in an exciting role that is central to the development of a culture of improving the lived experience for those children and young people we work with. This is a specialist role in a large and ambitious service, working across multiple portfolios, with multiple complexities and users and partners.
Working alongside the Quality of Practice Manager and other Quality of Practice Practitioners, you will support the implementation and embedding of a robust reflective quality assurance system. You will work one to one with practitioners, and with teams and larger groups to develop reflective practice skills and build a clearer understanding of our areas of best practice and development. You will be responsible for ensuring that practice is in keeping with the local authority practice standards.
You will seek out information from multiple sources, including electronic systems, child, young people and their networks to understand the impact of practice. You will be responsible for undertaking Quality of Practice activities to meet service demands and as part of a planned monthly cycle of activity, extracting themes and patterns to demonstrate what needs to happen to drive up performance, reporting to the Quality of Practice Manager. Your findings will contribute to the East Riding of Yorkshire’s commitment to a cycle of continuous learning and improvement.
You will need to be social work qualified and have strong experience of social work practice and experience of developing others and demonstrable commitment to your own professional development. It would be advantageous if you have experience of quality improvement activity, but not essential.
If you meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative leader, then what are you waiting for? Apply now and make a difference.
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