Quality Assurance Lead
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £55,797.41 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 June 2024 |
| Location: | West Yorkshire, LS1 2RP |
| Company: | Skills For Care |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1882-PS1059893LeeQAL |
Summary
Job Title: Quality Assurance Lead
Department: National Workforce Development, Capability and Skills
Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week (part-time or job share arrangements will be considered)
Job Status: Permanent
Location: Homebased with national travel as required
Salary: £55,797.41 per annum
Closing Date: 14 June 2024
Interview Date: w/c 1 July 2024 (Remote)
Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. We respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.
Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our National Workforce Development, Capability and Skills team working across a major contract to deliver a quality assurance programme for learning provision as part of the DHSC Reform agenda.
The quality assurance function is vitally important in ensuring that employers in adult social care can access high quality training provision and qualifications and learning programmes which meet the needs of the workforce now and for the future.
Learning and development and the provision of suitable standards, qualifications and learning programmes in the adult social care sector is a significant priority, and this role provides the opportunity to make a real difference at a national level.
The post holder will work with colleagues in the National Workforce Development Capability & Skills team as well as colleagues across the organisation to design and deliver programmes of activity to support the skills and knowledge acquisition of the adult social care sector.
The successful applicant will have experience and expertise across strategic, policy and operational areas within either a quality assurance or qualifications and training delivery field. They will be a flexible and dynamic thinker, and be responsible for contributing towards and delivering across all aspects of this area of work. Within Skills for Care this will involve liaison with dedicated staff in the Strategy, Impact and Performance Directorate, Marketing/Communications, Digital and Finance to ensure effective working. Outside of Skills for Care, the postholder will be expected to work with government, sector bodies, workforce intermediaries and employers to promote quality assurance and compliance.
If you are interested in this role, please visit our website for the full job description. If you would like an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact recruitment @skillsforcare.org.uk.
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.
Department: National Workforce Development, Capability and Skills
Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week (part-time or job share arrangements will be considered)
Job Status: Permanent
Location: Homebased with national travel as required
Salary: £55,797.41 per annum
Closing Date: 14 June 2024
Interview Date: w/c 1 July 2024 (Remote)
Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. We respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.
Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance Lead to join our National Workforce Development, Capability and Skills team working across a major contract to deliver a quality assurance programme for learning provision as part of the DHSC Reform agenda.
The quality assurance function is vitally important in ensuring that employers in adult social care can access high quality training provision and qualifications and learning programmes which meet the needs of the workforce now and for the future.
Learning and development and the provision of suitable standards, qualifications and learning programmes in the adult social care sector is a significant priority, and this role provides the opportunity to make a real difference at a national level.
The post holder will work with colleagues in the National Workforce Development Capability & Skills team as well as colleagues across the organisation to design and deliver programmes of activity to support the skills and knowledge acquisition of the adult social care sector.
The successful applicant will have experience and expertise across strategic, policy and operational areas within either a quality assurance or qualifications and training delivery field. They will be a flexible and dynamic thinker, and be responsible for contributing towards and delivering across all aspects of this area of work. Within Skills for Care this will involve liaison with dedicated staff in the Strategy, Impact and Performance Directorate, Marketing/Communications, Digital and Finance to ensure effective working. Outside of Skills for Care, the postholder will be expected to work with government, sector bodies, workforce intermediaries and employers to promote quality assurance and compliance.
If you are interested in this role, please visit our website for the full job description. If you would like an informal conversation about this opportunity, please contact recruitment @skillsforcare.org.uk.
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.