Practice Development Lead
Location
Rochester, Kent | United Kingdom
Job description
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Practice Development Lead to work full time based in Medway.
The salary for this permanent Practice Development Lead job is up to £61,676per annum.
Main duties:
- Support the implementation and sustaining of Medway’s Signs of Safety Practice model and Learning & Accountability framework across Children’s Services.
- Participate in the preparation for statutory inspections by ensuring the visibility of the practice framework and contributing to the design and development of quality assurance systems. This will promote capturing the voice of the child, family and practitioners to inform practice and assure the council that consistently high-quality safe care is afforded to all children and young people.
- Lead on the thematic audit of key themes of social work practice and the implementation of any resulting recommendations. The delivering regular surgeries/workshops and 1:1 sessions on identified lead areas to drive and champion best practice within the specialism.
- Drive improvements in the quality of supervision to promote the implementation of the Learning and Accountability Framework, addressing professional development, and developing a string learning culture which will provide high quality practice and good outcomes for children and families.
- Identify any areas of learning which may result from serious incidents and deliver practice learning events in partnership with the Safeguarding Partnership, and where relevant, multiagency stakeholders. This may include holding an author role for local Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.
- Motivate and inspire teams to provide the highest possible customer service and act as a ‘role model’ to influence cultural change through the service to promote a string ethos and drive to deliver high standards of professional social care practice.
- Maintain and disseminate an excellent understanding of current research, evidence based practice, policy, guidance, legislation and case law relating to children and families.
- Facilitate the learning of others enabling them to develop their knowledge, skills, values and practice.
- To be an advocate for children, young people and families and ensure their voice is heard throughout case files.
- Support the development and career progression of students, practitioners, and managers whilst improving Medway’s recruitment and retention.
- To ensure that working practices and processes are developed that maximise the use of new technology to ensure efficient and effective delivery of service to resident.
- At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time may be agreed consistent with nature of the job described above.
Requirements of a Practice Development Lead:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Practice Development Lead job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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