Social Work Standards Officer

Kent County Council; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Kent County Council in Maidstone is seeking a Social Work Standards Officer to support the research, design and delivery of high-quality integrated children's practice across Children's Services and the wider partnership.

Key responsibilities include developing service standards and policies, driving quality assurance, and actively engaging with Social Work, Children and Families to improve outcomes. Driving a culture of high support and high challenge is essential.

Qualifications

• Registered Social Worker with Social Work England.
• Experience in safeguarding and child protection.
• Full UK driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide practitioners and managers with expert advice on practice for children and families.
• Support development of standards, policies and procedures for service delivery.
• Engage with Senior Management to ensure the child-focused approach across services.

Skills

Policy advice

Team collaboration

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen with in the Safeguarding , Professional Standards and Quality Assurance unit for a Social Work Standards Officer. You will support the research, design and delivery of high-quality integrated children's practice across all of Children's Services and the wider partnership, including new service standards, practices, policies and procedures. Be an active change agent in driving the standards of quality assurance within the children's workforce practice across the County ensuring the effective delivery of services which safeguard children. This will involve actively engaging the voice of Social Work, Children and Families.

Provide practitioners and managers with expert advice on all aspects of practice for children and families. To provide support to practitioners and managers to develop a culture of optimum conditions for high quality practice. Main emphasis will be on driving a high support, high challenge culture. Support and engage with the Senior Management Team to ensure practice remains focused on the child.

The applicant would benefit from relevant experience across social work practice including but not limited to adolescents, child protection, children in care and district social work.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This pay scale falls within our KSJ pay scale. For candidates moving internally within the pay same grade, the HR policy will be applied. For all new candidates to KCC, the starting salary is expected unless exceptional circumstances are proved.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence - The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.