Quality Assurance Lead Qsw Iro Safeguarding - Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Eden Brown Synergy

Eden Brown Synergy

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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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We are working with Oxfordshire to recruit a Quality Assurance Lead / IRO

The appointed Quality Assurance Lead will be a Qualified Social Worker

Children's services are highly regulated to ensure we offer the best quality practice and provision to children and families in Oxfordshire.

We continually strive to improve, and quality assure our practice to ensure we are achieving the best possible outcomes.

This new post aims to strengthen the quality of Oxfordshires statutory quality assurance functions through integrated alignment with practice improvement and inspection readiness colleagues within the umbrella of our Quality Assurance Framework and acrossthe safeguarding partnership.

This senior management role reports to the Head of Safeguarding, complementing, and linking closely with the Principal Social Worker, Practice Development and Inspection Readiness functions, to create a streamlined approach for achievement of high practicestandards and improved outcomes for children and families in Oxfordshire.

It will play a key role in ensuring excellent practice for the most vulnerable children and young people, in particular child protection and
children in care.

Responsibility for delivery of a modern, high quality, compliant and integrated G15 Independent Reviewing Officers and Child Protection Chairs service.

Ensuring delivery of high quality robust internal challenge and improvement activity in accordance with legal requirements and departmental policies and procedures.
Delivery of a range of proactive and reactive quality assurance activities which help maintain and improve the standards of delivered to children and young people.
Sharing responsibility with other strategic and operational QA teams for support and delivery of CEF Quality Assurance Framework and achievement of its aims.
Working proactively with agency partners to create effective joined up practice and approaches to improve outcomes for children.
Training, auditing, moderating, "closing the loop" activity and ensuring action plans from these are achieved.
Contributing to inspection readiness.
Improving systems working with colleagues across ICT, finance, commissioning, and brokerage to support the ongoing development of quality assurance activity across children's services, ensuring there are sound processes in place, that performance informationis accurate and up to date, and to communicate changes and updates to staff of expected performance and delivery.
Coproduction supporting the development of coproduction activity with children and families in Oxfordshire, while promoting the specific statutory requirements of IROs and CP Chairs in relation to independent advocacy and paramountcy of the child's voice.
Maintaining links, knowledge and understanding of operational teams and how they are working.
Keeping up to date with and work within all relevant children's policies and pr