This is a maternity cover, fixed term role for up to 12 months.
A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious Social Worker to join the Improvement, Performance and Quality service in Hull, leading our quality assurance and audit processes to support the delivery of high-quality and impactful practice across the Children Young People and Family Services, including all services across the social care pathway, early help, learning and skills and youth justice offer.
Your role will be to lead and support our audit functions and other quality assurance processes which enhance our understanding and learning and inform the continuous improvement cycle for children and families in Hull.
As the Quality Assurance Lead you will be supporting the improvement of practice, informing service development, influencing commissioning and supporting workforce learning through the development and implementation of effective quality assurance activity and processes.
You will support the Senior Leadership Team and others in ensuring high quality practice standards are developed and maintained across social care, early help, learning and skills and SEND services
You will lead on the audit process across CYPFS, undertake audits and dip sampling, carry out survey activity with practitioners and children and families, analyse practice, support learning and promote the development of effective practice.
You will support and manage the Quality Assurance Improvement Officer to use effective data collection, data collation, and extraction skills to produce timely and accurate reports which will inform and influence management decisions about performance, quality, and improvement activity.
You will use your organisation and communication skills to ensure that quality assurance activity is undertaken in a timely and accurate way.
The role is integral to our Children’s services improvement journey and a commitment to improving the lives and outcomes of children and families in Hull is fundamental to the post.
The role can be undertaken with hybrid home / on site working. The office base is at Lowgate, our newly refurbished building in the centre of Hull.
For further information or an informal discussion please contact Paul Brownlee, Head of Performance and Quality on 07720 095 747 or via e-mail Paul.brownlee@hullcc.gov.uk
Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria against the person specification as listed in the job description.