Quality Improvement Lead - Knowsley, United Kingdom - Knowsley Borough Council

Knowsley Borough Council

Verified Company

Knowsley, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

We wish to recruit a suitably qualified, registered health or social care professional (registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC, Social Work England) to fill the post of Quality Improvement Lead.

You will be responsible for monitoring and supporting performance improvement of the Council's in-house and independent sector providers of adult social care and children's services and supporting to improve the effectiveness and quality of practice across Adult Social Care.

You will manage a portfolio of services comprising of independent sector providers and the council's in-house provider services. The work will include offering support and challenge.

Knowledge of children's services is desirable for this role, though not essential. Additionally, you will have excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills to enable meaningful dialogue with internal and external colleagues.

Experience of and an ability to investigate concerns or complaints, prepare reports and develop improvement plans is essential for the role.

The role will require you to carry out site visits to a variety of service providers, undertake risk assessments, prepare reports and, where appropriate, support the development of improvement plans in response to the findings of inspections, monitoring visits and/or other intelligence.

You will contribute to the development of policy and practice guidance in relation to safeguarding and quality and to the design and delivery of training programmes across a range of services and social work teams with the aim of improving the quality of practice and service delivery.

We will consider requests for flexible working.

For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible:
flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applicants.

At Knowsley we value our applicants and want them to feel well-informed and welcomed. If you have any questions about this specific job role or what it is like to work at Knowsley, please contact;

How to apply:

Your CV should be tailored to reflect the competencies within the person specification. Please note if a CV does not reflect the person specification it is unlikely to be shortlisted.

To upload your CV you will need to click on the link below and create an account with Jobs Go Public if you have not already done so.