Quality Assurance Officer – Children’s Services

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to join Bolton Council, supporting the development and improvement of social work practice across Children's Services.

What will your responsibilities be? 

• Undertake a range of quality assurance activities to evaluate the effectiveness of services being delivered to children and families.
• Complete and support others to undertake audits, dip sampling, and quality assurance reviews across Children's Services.
• Support the embedding of practice standards, expectations, and continuous improvement across the workforce.
• Provide high support and high challenge to practitioners and managers to promote consistently good outcomes for children and families.
• Track and monitor audit recommendations, ensuring actions are completed and improvements are embedded into practice.
• Undertake follow-up dip sampling activity to evidence learning and improvement from quality assurance cycles.
• Carry out specific audits, thematic reviews, and service evaluations as required.
• Collect, analyse, and collate feedback from children, young people, and families to inform service development and quality improvement.
• Work collaboratively with managers and practitioners to ensure quality assurance findings influence frontline practice.
• Provide coaching and support to practitioners and audit participants, promoting a shared understanding of audit processes and quality standards.
• Contribute to inspection preparation activities across Children's Services, supporting readiness and continuous improvement.
• Promote and support relational and restorative approaches to practice.• Contribute to workforce development initiatives, learning events, and practice improvement activities where required.
• Support the development of a culture of reflective practice, learning, and professional accountability.

Benefits: 

• Excellent rate of pay
  
• Developmental Opportunities
  
• Great for progression
  
• Flexible/Hybrid working
  
• Free onsite parking
  
• Paid for a 37-hour working week
  
• MS Teams interviews

Qualifications and Experience: 

To be successful in this role you must have;  

• Social Work England registration.
  
• Eligible to work in the UK.
  
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
  
• Degree level qualification in Social Work (DipSW/CQSW or equivalent).
  
• Extensive post-qualification experience within Children's Social Care.
  
• Experience of supporting professional staff to deliver high-quality social work practice.
  
• Strong knowledge of childcare legislation, safeguarding procedures, and evidence-based practice. 

Why Liquid Personnel? 

• Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies 
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal 
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge 
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK 
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place* 
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us * 

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes. 

Reasonable Adjustments: 

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. 
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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