Practice Assurance Lead

Practice Assurance Lead (2x) Up to £58,893 per annum Permanent Full Time (36 hours) Wandsworth Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and do you see yourself as a leader of relationship-based practice? Your role will be key within our Practice & Learning Service facilitating and co-ordinating the continuous improvement of practice quality in line with our Outstanding Practice Framework. Working across all Children’s Services teams, you will contribute to developing, embedding and leading the quality assurance framework and developing practice through learning episodes (audit programme), dip-sampling, thematic practice reviews and multi-agency audits. You will bring rigour to analysing key themes and learning arising from practice assurance activity and share these messages with practitioners, managers, senior leaders and multi-agency partners in creative and engaging ways. Can you join us and be an active part in shaping what outstanding practice looks like for children and families in Wandsworth? About the role Reporting to the Service Manager for Practice Assurance, you will be working alongside colleagues in safeguarding, policy and performance, inspection readiness and workforce and learning (social care academy). You will be an experienced social work leader, who is child and family focussed and able to thrive in a complex environment while responding in an agile way to service demands. You will be integral to leading and developing the quality assurance frameworks across Place and Partnership (Early Help) and Children’s Social Care, completing regular practice assurance activity that seeks to understand practice and hear directly from those who experience practice, privileging their voice in understanding the difference practice is making to them. You will be someone who wants to stay close to practice whilst having sight across the whole practice system, supporting practice both at an individual and an organisational level in a role that is vital to inspection readiness. Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience * You will be a qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England, with experience of leading and managing social work practice. * You will have experience of leading effective quality assurance of practice and a passion for delivering the very best outcomes for children and families. * You will have strong analytical skills, with an eye for detail; being able to make meaning out of complex information and share this in written form and easy to digest messages about practice. * You will be able to build collaborative and effective relationships with teams, services and senior leaders within Children’s Services and partner agencies. * You will be able to demonstrate an understanding and application of anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice to social work practice. * An understanding of the broad local and national priorities, policies and guidance that shapes social work practice. If you meet the above criteria and want to be part of a quality assurance service that is committed to innovation and transformation, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity