Practice Development Lead - LAC / Care Leavers

Leaders in Care; Luton; On-site; GBP 107,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in social work seeks a Practice Improvement Lead for a full-time role in Luton. This position involves leading quality assurance initiatives for the Children in Care/Care Leavers service, ensuring superior practices are upheld. Ideal candidates will have a social work qualification and prior QA experience, enabling them to work collaboratively with teams to enhance service delivery. The role offers a competitive hourly rate of £51.50 and is supported by a management team committed to best practices.

Benefits

Market leading timesheet & payroll system

Weekly check-ins and support on placement

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar QA role.
• Ability to lead quality initiatives and communicate improvement strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead on setting up Quality Assurance Frameworks.
• Provide in-depth analysis on improving outcomes for families and children.
• Support social workers through Learning & Development initiatives.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Practice Improvement

Communication

Education

Social Work Qualification

Job description

Service development opportunity | Outside IR35 | 6-month rolling contract | Practice Improvement | Supportive senior management

Practice Improvement / Quality Assurance - £51.50/h

If you’re reading this you’re probably a social worker who thrives off good practice, as well as helping others achieve it. This role will mean you taking the lead, as the title Practice Improvement Lead would suggest, on quality assurance on the island – you will be the lead on setting up their Quality Assurance Frameworks, and providing in depth analysis on how outcomes for families and children can be improved, you will be specifically in their Children in Care / Care Leavers service.

Due to the responsibilities of the role, you will ideally have worked in a similar QA role before, giving you experience in taking the lead on Quality, liaising with operational leads, as well as managers/social workers to communicate the vision of improvement, and how it will be achieved.

Of course the role will also be heavily intertwined with Learning & Development, setting up support and advice for the social workers on the island to continue to provide the best service to service users.

This is a full time role, which is not currently offering hybrid work

Leaders in Care can offer a rate of £51.50/h, along with a service that has received over 580 5* Google reviews – this means weekly check ins, support on your placement, and a market leading timesheet & payroll system that means Fridays are no longer a stress of refreshing your bank to see if your money is coming!

As this is a statutory role, you do require a social work qualification & registration to Social Work England.

If you want to know more, please apply, or email Chris on [e-mail] or more details (or call on 07897 024978).