Head of Quality Assurance - Children's Services

What's involved with this role: Gloucestershire Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this roleKey Requirements:

• Relevant professional qualification in service to children and young people.
• Social Work England Registration Number.
• Proven track record in the leadership, management and development of services which have led to a positive outcome for children, young people and their families.
• Experience of effective working across organisational boundaries which has led to improved outcomes for CYP and their families.
• Experience of implementing strategies for service development which has led to quality improvement.
• Experience of working in a political environment.

The successful candidate will oversee the 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. Key Responsibilities:

• Take the strategic lead on designing implementing and monitoring quality assurance systems and processes to ensure quality of practice across the council's children and young people's services and across multi agency services.
• Ensure that practice and process is effectively challenged and where it is identified that they need improvement, that this is identified to Heads of Service, Lead Commissioners and Directors so that appropriate action can be taken. Monitor the impact of the subsequent actions to ensure necessary improvements are then made.
• Ensure that complaints are dealt with in accordance with County Council policy and statutory requirements.
• Analyse feedback from complaints and compliments, reviews of children in care, child protection conferences and allegations management in order to identify areas of good practice and those requiring improvement. Take the necessary action to ensure that identified improvements are made.
• Take strategic lead of the design, implementation and monitoring of children's and young people's participation.
• Support the Safeguarding Children's Partnership and to manage the Safeguarding Board Business Manager.
• To take the strategic lead on safeguarding across the Children and Young People's Partnership and to design and deliver a quality assurance framework for safeguarding.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please