Overview
Practice Lead Audit Officer – Scott House, Huntingdon, United Kingdom
Our Benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About the role
Do you hold a professional qualification in Social Work or another relevant profession?
Do you enjoy working with colleagues across different service areas?
Are you passionate about supporting the development of social care practice and making positive and sustainable changes?
The Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Team need you!
We have a rare and exciting opportunity available for the right person to join us as Practice Audit Lead within the Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Team, which works across Adult Social Care within Cambridgeshire County Council.
The team’s work is evidence based using information obtained through audits, case reviews and working with front line social care teams. Aspects of the team’s activities include delivering audit programmes, running social care practice workshops across the council, developing practice guidance, newsletters and working with other areas of the council to provide a joined-up approach to social care. We also support the facilitation of huddles and work with others to develop best social care practice in the council’s Adults Social Care Service.
The focus of this role is leading our Practice Auditors working with the Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Manager to oversee our audit programmes, support the ongoing development of audit tools and the implementation of gathering feedback from adults with care and support needs and unpaid carers.
The team is small but effective with a strong emphasis on social care values and good social care practice standards.
Interviews will be held on Monday 10 August at New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Ali Keclik, Head of Quality Assurance and Practice Standards, on 07500 856547.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
We need someone who is either an experienced Social Worker registered with Social Work England or alternatively qualified in a relevant profession. You must have experience of social care with adults and be skilled with working with others.
We are looking for an individual who is passionate about developing social care practice in Cambridgeshire. The right person for this role will be someone who has an understanding of what good practice looks like and ideally, experience of quality assurance in a social care setting.
We are a team which works across service areas, and we work hard to form and maintain positive working relationships with our colleagues. A track record of positive partnership working is essential as well as excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
It is important that you are able to demonstrate excellent planning, prioritisation, time management and leadership skills.
As the role involves quality assurance of practice through the use of case audits and tracking you must have an eye for detail and the ability to apply professional analysis and scrutiny to information. It is essential that you are skilled in using Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, One Drive) and social care case recording systems.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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