About the Role
This role focuses on driving practice excellence across Children’s Social Care through audit, quality assurance, complaints management, workforce development, and service improvement. It involves conducting and quality assuring audits, analysing performance and complaints data, leading learning and improvement activities, supporting practitioner development, coordinating multi-agency assurance work, preparing for inspections, and ensuring learning from audits, reviews and complaints translates into improved outcomes for children, young people and families. It also includes providing strategic advice, delivering training, contributing to governance processes, and supporting continuous service improvement across the organisation.
Responsibilities
- Conducting and quality assuring audits
- Analysing performance and complaints data
- Leading learning and improvement activities
- Supporting practitioner development
- Coordinating multi-agency assurance work
- Preparing for inspections
- Ensuring learning from audits, reviews and complaints translates into improved outcomes for children, young people and families
- Providing strategic advice
- Delivering training
- Contributing to governance processes
- Supporting continuous service improvement across the organisation
Requirements
- CV and supporting statement must clearly evidence how you meet the shortlisting criteria on the personal specification marked “A” for application
- Successful candidates will be asked to apply for an Enhanced/Standard/Basic Certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
Location
- South London
Work Type
- Fixed Term Contract
- Secondment
Salary/Compensations
- Starting salary £54,360 pa. rising in annual increment to maximum salary of £57,495 pa. including LW.
Benefits
- Lambeth Staff Benefits
About the Company
- Located in the heart of South London, Lambeth Borough is a vibrant community of over 317,600 residents. Stretching from the dynamic neighbourhood of Streatham in the South to the iconic landmarks of Waterloo in the North, we are proud to be the 9th largest borough in London. Our diversity is our strength, with more than 130 languages spoken, making Lambeth the home of the Windrush generation, London's largest LGBTQ+ ; community, and a thriving Portuguese-speaking community.
- It is an exciting time to join Lambeth Council, we have bold ambitions for the future of Lambeth’s communities and residents through our Lambeth 2030 Plan ‘Our Future, Our Lambeth.
- With exceptional schools, lush green spaces including Brockwell Park, cultural gems like the Black Cultural Archives, and world-renowned institutions such as St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth offers an enriching and dynamic environment.
- Please have a look at our dedicated One Lambeth Values and Behaviours page.
Equal Opportunity
- We operate an anonymised application process, so be sure to remove personal details when uploading your CV or personal statement.
- At Lambeth, we are dedicated to providing quality services and equal opportunities for all.
- We are committed to safer recruitment and are proud to be a Stonewall diversity champion, a Living Wage Employer, and to guarantee interviews for all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria of the role.
- For a full list of our accreditations, please click here.
