QUALITY ASSURANCE AND PRACTICE MANAGER

Date: 29 Apr 2025
Job Location:Gloucester

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Quality Assurance and Practice Manager
• Job Location: Quayside House, Westgate Street, Gloucester
• Salary: £50,788- £52,805 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.

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.