Policy Manager
Location: Sheffield/Hybrid working
Salary: £44,866 per year, rising to £47,293 per year after successful completion of a 6-month probationary period.
Vacancy Type: Permanent, Full Time
Closing date: 12/04/2026
The Role
The organisation is the specialist regulator, focused on enabling positive change in social work. Every day, social workers support millions of people to improve their chances in life. They believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those they regulate – to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives.
Working to the senior policy manager for regulation, you will support the policy priorities around their regulatory functions. In collaboration with colleagues from other teams, you will engage with key sector stakeholders to gather intelligence to make evidence-based recommendations. You will also liaise with relevant internal colleagues to arrive at reasoned and well-evidenced regulatory positions and provide specialist advice and guidance to senior members of the organisation, and often the executive leadership, and policy committee.
What you will do
1. Play a leading role in the organisation’s approach to regulatory policy, working across directorates to improve their coll...