Practice Development Officer - KSI - Safeguarding Unit - Quality Assurance
Practice Development Officer
The Safeguarding Unit has an exciting opportunity to deliver a Quality Assurance Framework and Practice Framework that trains and develops CYPE staff whilst understanding and influencing KCC’s journey to continue to be Outstanding. We have an opportunity in our Practice Development Team for a Practice Development Officer. You will be educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification in Social Care, Health, Youth Work or Teaching and/or extensive experience. You will have a strong safeguarding knowledge and be passionate about theories and improving practice across CYPE in Kent. Although this role will cover many practice areas we are particularly interested in applicants with knowledge and practice experience of working with adolescents.
The successful candidate will:
* Lead and model and promote high quality frontline practice.
* Drive the development of effective practice with adolescents and their families in response to extra familial harm.
* Guide frontline managers and practitioners to support the implementation of KCC’s practice framework.
* Deliver training to frontline practitioners to drive outstanding practice and new initiatives.
* Develop accessible Policy and Guidance.
* Facilitate and undertake ongoing audits and research of integrated practice.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
About the Company
KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
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