Quality Assurance and Practice Manager

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Quality Assurance and Practice Manager
• Job Location:                     Quayside House, Westgate Street, Gloucester 
• Salary:                               £49,498 - £51,515 per annum
• Hours per Week:               37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Fixed Term 
• Closing Date:                     18/05/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:   11461 
• This post is open to job share 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance and Practice Manager to join our renowned Social Work Academy on a 1 year FTC.

Do you have a passion for driving up the quality of practice in Children’s Services, through evaluation of practice and using this to inform improvement and learning priorities?

Do you want to be part of developing outstanding practitioners and leaders who can affect positive changes for children, young people and families in Gloucestershire?  

If so, the Quality Assurance and Advanced Practice Manager, could be the right role for you.

Reward and support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £49,498- £51,515 per annum depending on experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ continuous service
• 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 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
• salary sacrifice green car scheme (T&Cs apply)
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
• paid SWE registration renewal

About the team:

The Academy is responsible for providing a welcoming and meaningful introduction to working in children’s services, optimising the many attractions of working for Gloucestershire County Council. It also ensures that practitioners and leaders receive the highest quality learning and development opportunities to improve the quality of their practice, support their continuing professional development and facilitate their career progression. The Academy also provides a key contribution to the evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of practice, in the lives of children and families, through the oversight of quality assurance and quality improvement. This in turns supports our ambition towards a good and outstanding service where professionals will want to invest longer-term in the lives of children and families in Gloucestershire.

About the role

As a member of this dynamic and driven leadership team, you will be part of delivering the vision of Gloucestershire’s Social Work Academy.

As the Quality Assurance and Advanced Practice Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the operational delivery of our Quality Assurance Framework, comprising a combination of audits, dip samples, observations and practice weeks. This will include the development of practitioners and leaders involved in quality assurance and improvement activity. You will offer leadership in translating learning from the evaluation of practice into the priorities of Quality Improvement and how this can be developed through the Academy and wider service. You will oversee the evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of the Academy learning and development offer, to support its continuous improvement.

 About you

As well as your extensive experience of working and leading within statutory services for children, young people and families you will need:

• a recognised Social Work qualification
• registration with Social Work England
• Post-Qualifying Award in Social Work (or Systemic Supervision) or willingness to undertake this
• Leadership & Management qualification or willingness to work towards
• ability to satisfactorily pass DBS requirements

How to apply

If you would like to discuss the role further, please email Robert.Tyrrell@Gloucestershire.gov.uk (Principal Social Worker)

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

Quality Assurance and Practice Manager Role Profile

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.