Quality Assurance Officer - Children's Services

Liquid Personnel Limited.; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Free DBS

Faster Pay

Refer a Friend bonus

Find your own job bonus

Exclusive roles access

Training & CPD portal

Dedicated consultant

Competitive pay

Job summary

Liquid Personnel Limited in Bolton is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to join the Children's Services team on a full-time, hybrid basis. You will drive high-quality practice, support staff development and improve outcomes for children and families.

You will conduct audits, dip sampling, practice reviews and learning initiatives, promoting best practice and embedding learning across services. SWEngland registered Social Worker with 3+ years in Children's Services required.

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker
• Social Work England Registration
• Minimum 3 years' post-qualified experience within Children's Services
• Knowledge of quality assurance processes and audit frameworks
• Understanding of the ILACS framework and inspection requirements
• Experience supporting, coaching, mentoring, or developing practitioners
• Strong communication, analytical, and report-writing skills

Responsibilities

• Undertake quality assurance activities including audits, dip sampling, practice reviews, and learning initiatives
• Promote best practice, embed learning from audits, and support continuous service improvement across Children's Services

Skills

Quality assurance processes

Audit frameworks

Monitoring & evaluation

Communication skills

Report writing

Coaching/mentoring

Job description

Quality Assurance Officer - Children's Services

Liquid Personnel is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to join their Children's Services team on a full-time, hybrid basis in Bolton.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Qualified Social Worker who is passionate about driving high-quality practice, supporting staff development, and improving outcomes for children and families.

In this role, you will undertake a range of quality assurance activities including audits, dip sampling, practice reviews, and learning initiatives. You will work closely with managers and practitioners to promote best practice, embed learning from audits, and support continuous service improvement across Children's Services.

Requirements

• Qualified Social Worker
• Social Work England Registration
• Minimum 3 years' post-qualified experience within Children's Services
• Knowledge of quality assurance processes and audit frameworks
• Understanding of the ILACS framework and inspection requirements
• Experience supporting, coaching, mentoring, or developing practitioners
• Strong communication, analytical, and report-writing skills

What's on Offer?

• £40 per hour
• 37 hours per week
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Opportunity to influence practice and service improvement across Children's Services
• 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.