Senior Practitioner - Review & Quality - ANG05463
| Posting date: | 12 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | £49,690.00 to £53,508.00 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 March 2025 |
| Location: | Arbroath, DD11 3TP |
| Company: | Angus Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ANG05463 |
Summary
Job Description
Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.
This job is workstyle 5.
You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.
An exciting opportunity has become available for a full time permanent Quality and Review Officer within the Children, Families and Justice Directorate.
As a senior practitioner responsible for child protection and looked after children’s reviews you will:
Be responsible for quality assurance and providing support to all professionally qualified social workers and managers. You will ensure the delivery of robust scrutiny of practice relating to child protection and looked after children across the service and local multi-agency arrangements to promote the achievement of positive outcomes for children and their families. Actively demonstrate, promote and uphold social work values and deliver fair and evidence-based decision making including promotion of the child’s voice.
In addition to the above you will contribute to the quality improvement agenda across children, families and justice. You will be part of an innovative service which strives to role model and promote a learning culture in order to support learning leading to improvement's in service delivery.
For further information or an informal discussion, contact Rebecca McNeil, Acting Service Leader (McneilR1@ngus.gov.uk) or Siobhan McHardy, Acting Manager (McHardyS@angus.gov.uk)
Please note interviews will be held Wednesday, 12 March 2025.
Requirements
You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.
Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.
Responsibilities
In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.
The Individual
We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.
We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:
Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.
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