Pay rate – £31.93 per hour Contract – Temporary Barnsley Council are currently recruiting an experienced Quality Assurance & Governance Officer within their children’s services. This role will be based within our quality assurance and improvement team within children's services, Barnsley MBC. The role will be to support children's social care and safeguarding services 4 days per week, specifically within our children in care and fostering services, acting as the key link officer for those services. The role will lead and support delivery of our quality assurance framework, working as part of a small team of quality assurance and governance officers. The role will also support policy and procedure development and maintenance and act as the key point of contact for our TriX repository. The remaining 1 day per week will be to support our quality assurance programme for services for children with special educational needs and disabilities, working alongside our quality assurance and governance officer for SEND - SEND knowledge and experience is desirable but not essential to undertake the duties of this part of the role. Key aspects of the role are co-ordinating full case file audits and dip sampling, working alongside colleagues in the QA team and our Practice Development Hub, as well as with Heads of Service, Service and Team Managers. The role will involve undertaking audits of social care practice, analysing the results of audits and formulating management reports and presentations as part of our closing the learning loop cycles. The role will involve working with our case management system and developing and maintaining excel spreadsheets of quality data and information. The role will involve presenting findings and learning from audits to service forums including team meetings and performance clinics. The role is hybrid, 3 day's minimum working in our offices at Westgate Plaza and 2 days working flexibly. The role will be responsible to the Team Manager - Quality Assurance. Children’s Social Workers will need at least 3 years’ permanent experience with an English local authority and to be registered with Social Work England, as per DfE rules. This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you: - A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to An easy registration process (all done online) Referral schemes and incentives Ongoing compliance managed for you. Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more. Please contact Emma Brennan on 07384 834872 or email emma.brennan@pprsocialcare.co.uk for more information. We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.