Practice Learning And Review Service Manager

About Us
Bexley is an outer London Borough with the best of both worlds, located between the hustle and bustle of London and the Garden of England, Kent. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites.
Bexley is pleased to have been graded by Ofsted as OUTSTANDING for the second time in a row during the 2023 ILACS inspection. In Bexley Children Social Care we are passionate about achieving good outcomes for our children and families. This is woven through our ethos in what we do. We are also passionate about our relationships with our children and families, each other and partner agencies. These principles are woven through in the way that we work and are key to the role.
The role sits within Bexley Children Social Care’s Professional Standards & Quality Assurance department. The service provides extensive Learning and development offer to the workforce which includes wellbeing, training, career development and staff engagement events. The service also leads in driving forward the quality assurance framework through the variety of roles in our department. Our service consists of highly experienced consultant social workers, chairs, independent reviewing officers and the LADO. Your role will be to lead specifically on Quality Assurance and to oversee the LADO function.
About the Role
Are you an experienced Team Manager or manager with transferable skills with a strong safeguarding lens? Are you looking to develop your career to the next stage? There is an exciting opportunity to be a Service Manager within Professional Standards & Quality Assurance.
Working closely with the Principal Social Worker and Service Manager for IRO & CP Chairs you will lead on driving forward good standards of practice through our quality assurance framework. You will lead on monthly auditing, thematic audit panels and report directly to senior leadership on your findings. This is a real opportunity to strengthen practice and help us identify areas for development. Importantly you will be supporting feedback from families and children and ensuring this informs practice and service provision.
You would be facilitating and embedding learning across services, and you will also oversee the LADO functionality and supervise the LADO. You will work closely with the Head of Service for Professional Standards & SHIELD and this will provide opportunity for multi-agency working and working strategically.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Amanda Gillard via email on Amanda.Gillard@bexley.gov.uk.
Please refer to the Job Description for more information.
We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the We will offer you in return a package that includes a competitive salary, an excellent pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays. For more information on the benefits package on offer please refer to the Candidate Information document.
Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate will need to have had prior management experience within Social Work and experience of audit activity.
For the full list of essential and desirable criteria for this role then please refer to the Person Specification within the Job Description.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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