What's involved with this role:
Interim Children’s Services Quality Auditor x 2
Job Ref: Staffordshire 5256446
Pay Rate: Up to £333.00 per day PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Stafford, Staffordshire
Please note the pay rate is provisional only and the ad will be amended with the confirmed rate, once received.
The Children’s Quality Assurance Auditor will play a vital role in evaluating the quality and impact of our practice so that leaders understand how well we are doing and are able to target improvement activity on those areas where it is most needed. You will also have an important role in monitoring and ensuring compliance with statutory and local policy and guidance. You will produce a range of lucid, evidence-based reports on audit activity for senior leaders. You will undertake audits across the range of Children’s Trust activities.
Key Responsibilities:
Undertake in-depth case audits, working alongside Children’s services staff and team managers to evaluate the quality and impact of practice in improving children’s lives.
Obtain and evaluate the views of children, families and professional partners about the quality and impact of practice.
Undertake extensive thematic case sampling to understand and report on the quality specified elements of practice.
Go beyond auditing by using the audit process to coach social workers and managers in good practice, helping them to build on existing strengths and eliminate weaknesses.
Train and coach managers in effective auditing.
Undertake audits of supervision at child level and practitioner level.
Moderate case and case sampling completed by others so we can be confident that evaluations and judgments are evidenced based with a consent understanding of what good looks like.
Analyse and collate audit findings across the Children’s Service so they can be reported routinely to senior leaders to inform full range of practice improvement and workforce development activities.
Present audit findings and lessons from audit to groups of practitioners, managers and senior leaders as required.
To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
To ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself, others and to comply with the policies and procedures relating to health and safety with the Trust.
Qualifications:
Professional qualification in social work (degree, DipSW, CQSW or accredited equivalent).
Social Work England Registration.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Must have previously worked at head of service level.
In-depth knowledge of social work practice and the legal and policy frameworks that govern it.
Understand audit methodology including how to capture and report on learning, understanding operational and strategic requirements
Must be able to triangulate evidence in evaluating practice and to set out logically the reasons for their judgements about children’s cases.
Must be able to draw out themes and trends from different audits and other QA information, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
Be able to use audit processes as a development tool for social workers and managers, giving clear feedback and helping them to identify ways of improving.
Must be able to report verbally and in writing on their analysis, presenting them to staff and managers at all levels individually and in groups.
Significant experience of social work practice involving child safeguarding and looked after children.
Experience of overseeing, directing and evaluating social work practice, either as a manager or through another role that requires scrutiny and challenge such as practice educator.
Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and well-being of children and young people/vulnerable adults.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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Job Ref: Staffordshire 5256446
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