Quality Assurance Officers

Ready to help shape transformational change that will improve the lives of children, young people and families now and for generations to come?, This unique role will play a pivotal part in supporting the implementation of the national Families First Programme, helping to shape the future of children's services across Cambridgeshire., You will be working at the heart of a significant programme of reform, you will provide quality assurance, evaluation and oversight of new models of practice, including Family Help, Family Group Decision Making and Multi-Agency Child Protection Teams. You will gather and analyse evidence, evaluate pilot programmes, support the development of new service structures and help ensure that emerging systems and processes are effective, child-focused and deliver lasting improvements. Through your work, you will directly influence how services are designed and delivered, helping create meaningful and sustainable change for children and families across Cambridgeshire., Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We have an exciting opportunity for three experienced and motivated children's social care practitioners to join our Quality Assurance Service on a fixed-term basis or secondment until March 2028, as Quality Assurance Officers., Ideally, you are a Social Worker who is registered with Social Work England. But if you have a degree (or equivalent) in a related field and extensive experience working in children's social care, we'd love to hear from you too! You are professionally curious and want to understand why something has happened, what the impact might be and how we could improve it. You can be flexible with changing demands and are creative in your approaches to meeting work challenges.

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 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