Quality Assurance Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - The Refugee and Migrant Centre Ltd

The Refugee and Migrant Centre Ltd

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to join the Refugee Migrant Centre (RMC) as its Quality Assurance Officer.

RMC is an established, award winning, regional charity, renowned for its work with refugees and migrants.

You will help shape its quality of advice strategy and make a positive impact on the lives of both staff and the refugees and migrants that we help.

For over 24 years, RMC has assisted thousands of refugees and migrants from 162 countries.

It has helped to remove the barriers to integration, helping its clients become equal citizens, using a whole-person approach to the delivery of services from specialist legal advice through to education and employment programmes.

The post holder will join RMC in the advice department and will work closely with key managers.

This is an exciting time to be joining the team, as RMC are strengthening and expanding its infrastructure following a period of growth in staff, activities and turnover (from £776k to £2.8 million in the last 5 years).

The aim of this role will be to provide a quality assurance and audit preparation support, helping the Refugee and Migrant Centre (RMC) to maintain its quality standards set out in its membership with the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) and the Office of Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC).

Purpose of the role
This role requires;
- regular quality of advice assessment of cases, uploaded on our own internal case recording management system, to OISC and AQS case recording standards
- implementation of a robust case checking system, independent file reviews and peer-to-peer assessment
- administrative support to the Immigration Department Manager (IDM) in operation of their quality responsibilities
- preparation of regular internal audit reports making recommendations regarding compliance or non-compliance to the IDM; and
- provision of practical support where necessary to the casework and advice teams across all three sites

Main duties and responsibilities
This role's key responsibilities include;

Carrying out regular quality of advice assessment of cases, uploaded on our own internal case recording management system, to OISC and AQS case recording standards. These assessments must be in line with agreed guidelines with the IDM and ROM to maintain high standards of advice provision
When required, to carry out regular analysis of quality of advice assessments to OISC and AQS standards, in order to identify specific issues that need to be addressed
Supporting the IDM to implement a robust case checking system, independent file reviews and peertopeer assessment among the casework management teams
Supporting the IDM and ROM in preparing for organisational quality of advice audits conducted by OISC and AQS
Providing administrative support to the IDM in operation of their quality responsibilities and/or any suitable task
Regularly attending appropriate meetings and providing support in the capacity of the role, including administration, note taking, etc
Preparation of regular internal audit reports making recommendations regarding compliance or noncompliance of quality and/or process requirements by the team to the IDM
Provision of practical support where necessary to the casework and advice teams across all three sites; and
Ensuring that this work is carried out in accordance with RMC's values, principles, policies and procedures, specifically those around equal opportunity, confidentiality, impartiality and nondirective advice

Accountability and Decision Making

To be accountable/responsible for undertaking the quality of advice audit process in line with the OISC and AQS regulatory standards, but overall responsibility sits with the IDM and ROM respectively
Expected to exercise professional judgement in raising any issues that arise during the audit process
Expected to make decisions within known parameters and make recommendations to the IDM/ROM for consideration in more complex and unprecedented circumstances

Problem solving and Complexity

Required to interpret information from a variety of sources to ensure successful audit process and assessment the majority of cases will be straightforward but, in some circumstances, there may be complex issues to resolve
Expected to analyse and identify appropriate audit requirements, in line with the membership standard requirements set out by OISC and AQS to allow resulting recommendations
Problem solving and analysis skills required for audit assessments in terms of contributing to recommendations and improvements that are being advised the majority of these should be straightforward in nature and handled by the postholder, with more complex or difficult instances being escalated to the IDM/ROM

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