Head Of Quality Assurance
Gloucester
This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
- Job Title: Head Of Quality Assurance
- Job Location: Shire Hall
- Salary: £73,233 - £81,015 per annum
- Hours per Week: 37.00
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Closing Date: 08/12/2024
- Job Requisition Number: 10337
- This post is open to job share
We are looking for an exceptional, confident leader, with extensive experience of working in Children’s Services. The Head of Quality for Gloucestershire’s Children’s Services is a key role which will support our ongoing journey to Good and Outstanding.
Reward and Support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
- between £73,233 - £81,015 per annum subject to experience
- flexible and agile working opportunities
- 30 days' annual leave
- option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
- family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
- supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
- Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
- access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- an in-house Occupational Health service
- employee discount scheme
- cycle to work scheme
- links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
- career development and qualification opportunities
- access to our Social Work Academy
Our vision:
Right child, right support, right time, every time
Working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.
Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:
“Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.
In June 2023, our JTAI outcome evidenced further progress:
“Most children living in Gloucestershire who are initially identified to be in need of help and protection receive a swift and appropriate multi-agency response from the ‘front door’. Senior leaders’ strategic partnership is strong, and this mature relationship is supported by effective governance in the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children’s Partnership (GSCP). Senior leaders on the executive board have appropriate oversight and knowledge of the effectiveness of multi-agency safeguarding arrangements. Their commitment to a continuous learning culture results in proactive intervention to improve services for children.”
About the role
This is a critical strategic post that focuses on continuously improving social care practice. The successful candidate will oversee our child protection chairs and independent reviewing service, our impressive social work academy, a comprehensive and developing quality assurance approach, our outstanding participation team, and the GSCP business unit.
You will be a part of a highly supportive and collaborative senior leadership team, and a fantastic team of well-established service managers within the Quality Assurance remit.
You will report directly to the Service Director and support with delivering a culture of high-quality practice that achieves the best outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
Accountable for the rigorous implementation of the children’s services quality assurance framework to monitor and review performance, you will play a key part in our ambition to provide consistently good and outstanding services to children and families using relational practice, and systemic approaches.
For a conversation about the role, please email cswrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk.
Additional Information
Interviews will be held in person at Shire Hall, Gloucester on Friday 20th December.
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This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.