Working Hours : Full time- 36 hours Location : Hybrid working - office based at Unity House and Working From Home (WFH) About us The purpose of the Salford Safeguarding Children Partnership (SSCP) is to ensure that, at a local level, organisations and agencies are clear about how they will work together to safeguard children and promote their welfare. The SSCP works with a wide range of partners to ensure that multi agency arrangements for children in Salford are effective, and lead to improvements in children s lives. The SSCP has a clear vision, that all partners in Salford are committed to working together, so that every child is safe, well and able to reach their full potential. The SSCP promotes high standards of safeguarding practice, and we foster a culture of continuous improvement. We seek to learn from what works and we reflect on where we can strengthen our multi agency safeguarding approaches, with the ultimate aim of improving outcomes for children and young people. Collectively, we seek to evaluate practice and its impact to ensure that professionals and organisations within Salford keep children safe. We undertake a range of multi- agency audits to quality assure practice and ensure that learning from Practice Reviews is shared across the partnership, to make improvements. Performance management information is considered to track progress and we tri-angulate this evidence with feedback from children and young people, to evidence the impact of our partnership activity upon improving outcomes for children. About you We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated person with a proven ability to deliver outcomes and evidence impact for the SSCP. You will be expected to adopt a flexible approach, to manage your own workload and to work as part of a team. You will need to demonstrate a proven track record in co-ordinating quality assurance and audit activity and demonstrating impact. You will need the ability to translate complex ideas into user friendly information to ensure that all audiences understand key messages. You will need to be skilled in developing strong relationships with key partners and working in collaboration with other professionals, to evaluate practice and its impact. About the role The Performance and Quality Assurance Officer has a key role in the implementation of the Safeguarding Effectiveness Framework and will lead on co-ordinating and delivering the performance and quality assurance functions of the SSCP. The role will support the evaluation of practice and its impact, to ensure that professionals and organisations in Salford keep all children safe. The role will support the SSCP in providing assurance that safeguarding practice is as effective as possible, using a range of mechanisms to co-ordinate, monitor, challenge and improve our services, and outcomes for children and young people. The role will support the SSCP to learn from every opportunity and ensure that we have a skilled workforce who have access to up to date, relevant information, to help them to keep children safe. Want to know more about Salford? As an authority we are dedicated to improving the lives of our residents, and as an employer we are passionate about helping individuals to thrive in their work. We are committed to developing a diverse and inclusive culture and are proud of our professional accreditations which champion this. Find out about our city as a place to live, work & grow, and learn more about the amazing work we are doing. You ll also find out about the wealth of benefits we have to offer you here Continuous Service commitment New employees can keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others under this scheme. Find out if this applies to you here. Guaranteed Assessment Schemes We have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel by way of a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme. Our application forms ask you to indicate if you meet any of the criteria within this scheme, and so to find out more and if you qualify please click here. Privacy Statement and Data Protection Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council s primary Recruitment and Employment Privacy Notice which can be found at https://www.salford.gov.uk/gdpr .