Service Improvement Adviser - Wales

 The Practice Development Consultant role is a pivotal role in delivering SCIE’s consultancy support. The post holder will transform care by providing consultancy support on a range of projects with leaders and practitioners to develop strengths-based practice which delivers impact, transform how services are commissioned, support the development of high performing leaders and teams, work with people who draw on support to coproduce care and support, support local authorities to prepare for assurance and develop place-based arrangements to support the integration of health and care.

The post holder will work to engage key stakeholders, working alongside local authorities, social care providers and people with lived experience to transform social care.

About the Social Care Institute for Excellence

The Social Care Institute for Excellence is a national charity with a clear vision of a society where care and support maximises people's choices, removes social inequality, and enables people to live fulfilling, safe and healthy lives

At SCIE, we are driven by our values:

• Progressive – always learning and developing.
• Inclusive – working together for equality, diversity, and fairness.
• Credible – evidence-based, robust, and reliable.
• Transparent – open and honest.
• Committed – focused on making a difference to people’s lives.

Main Duties

1.      Work with colleagues to deliver complex improvement and consultancy projects for clients in adults.

2.    Work collaboratively and flexibly, to design and undertake consultancy and improvement projects, including diagnostics, change management projects, organisational and practice reviews.

3.    Manage and deliver multiple complex projects to time, budget and quality through the development, communication and management of clear project plans, stakeholder liaison and risk management utilising SCIE’s project Management approach.

4.    Grow SCIE’s commercial income by supporting business development activities such as developing and testing new offers, proposal writing and bid development.

5.      Bring together, analyse and interpret multiple and complex qualitative and quantitative data to make around recommendations about policy and practice.

6.      Design and facilitate workshops and events, including coproduction events with people with lived experience.

7.    Work collaboratively across SCIE and with external stakeholders to make efficient use of resources and budgets allocated to ensure value for money and timeliness of delivery.

8.      Write high quality presentations and reports that can be delivered to senior audiences, including policy and practice briefings for SCIE staff, leadership and Board.

9.      Communicate clearly and to a high standard to multiple audiences including senior leaders, practitioners, people who use services and members of the public 

10.   Represent SCIE in public and professional arenas.

11. Maintain professional expertise and knowledge on legislation, policies and practice up to date

12.   Maintain the effectiveness and credibility of SCIE’s work by keeping approaches to organisational improvement aligned with the latest legislation, practice guidance and research evidence and effective quality improvement methodologies.