Quality Assurance Coordinator

The Methodist Church in Britain; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 38.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

34 days leave

Extra leave days

Hybrid or remote working

Salary sacrifice for green cars

Pension scheme

Cycle to work

Employee assistance

Gym membership

Zusammenfassung

Cheshire East Council is seeking an experienced quality assurance professional for the Children's Commissioning and Placements Team. The role focuses on planning audits and monitoring visits, flagging safeguarding risks, and reporting findings to senior leaders across residential, fostering and SEND provisions.

You will travel across the borough to assess provision, analyse evidence, and support provider improvement while contributing to strategic commissioning and quality systems development.

Qualifikationen

• Experience of quality assurance frameworks in children's services, care or education settings.

Aufgaben

• Lead delivery of the operational quality assurance framework for commissioned children's services.
• Plan and coordinate audits, quality assurance visits and monitoring based on risk and priorities.
• Identify safeguarding concerns, poor practice, non-compliance and emerging provider risks.
• Analyse evidence and performance information to support provider improvement and decisions.
• Produce reports, recommendations and assurance information for managers and senior leaders.
• Support providers' improvement activity and track progress against agreed actions.
• Work with commissioning, placements, safeguarding and operational colleagues.
• Contribute to strategic commissioning, sufficiency planning and provider intervention decisions.
• Support development of quality assurance systems, processes and continuous improvement.

Kenntnisse

Safeguarding

Quality assurance

Information governance

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Professional curiosity

Communication

Stakeholder relations

Jobbeschreibung

This post sits in the Children's Commissioning and Placements Team at Cheshire East Council. The job is to plan audits and monitoring visits of commissioned children's provision, flag safeguarding and provider risks, and report findings to senior leaders. Focus areas are residential homes, fostering agencies, 16+ supported accommodation, SEND and alternative provision, with travel across the borough. What decides fit is prior experience of quality assurance frameworks in children's, care or education settings.

What the job involves

• Lead delivery of the operational quality assurance framework for commissioned children's services
• Plan and coordinate audits, quality assurance visits and monitoring based on risk and priorities
• Identify safeguarding concerns, poor practice, non-compliance and emerging provider risks
• Analyse evidence and performance information to support provider improvement and decisions
• Produce reports, recommendations and assurance information for managers and senior leaders
• Support providers' improvement activity and track progress against agreed actions
• Work with commissioning, placements, safeguarding and operational colleagues
• Contribute to strategic commissioning, sufficiency planning and provider intervention decisions
• Support development of quality assurance systems, processes and continuous improvement

Experience

• Experience of quality assurance frameworks in children's services, care or education settings

Skills & knowledge

• Knowledge of safeguarding, quality assurance, information governance and confidentiality
• Strong analytical skills, interpreting evidence and reaching clear conclusions
• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Professional curiosity and confidence to challenge where standards fall short
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Building constructive relationships while keeping appropriate professional challenge

Other

• Flexible approach and willingness to travel across the borough

What’s offered

• Enhanced annual leave of 34 days rising to 39 after five years
• Option to purchase up to 10 extra days of annual leave each year
• 37-hour full-time week with flexi-time and hybrid or remote working where possible
• Salary sacrifice schemes for green cars and white goods
• Career average pension, accruing at 1/49th of pensionable pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free employee assistance programme
• Discounted Everybody Leisure gym and swim membership