Practice Development & Quality Assurance Coordinator

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Practice Development & Quality Assurance Coordinator Team to work full time based in Guernsey.

The salary for this permanent Practice Development & Quality Assurance Coordinator job is up to £63,481 per annum.

Main duties:

• Develop and participate in the delivery of an in-service training and development program within Children & Family Community Services, to include support for adult safeguarding social workers within Adult Community Services as may be directed by the Service Manager for Safeguarding & Quality Assurance.
• Take on the role of lead coordinator for delivering a variety of Quality Assurance (QA) activities, including a monthly collaborative audit and moderation programme, deep dive and thematic audits.
• Advise and support colleagues at all levels on how to undertake audits and other QA activities to a high standard and on a regular basis.
• Support the Service Manager for Safeguarding & QA in ensuring learning from audit and QA activities are used to inform development and changes in policy and procedures.
• Participate in the overall development of operational staff within Children and Family Community Services as directed by the Service Manager, Safeguarding and Quality Assurance and other members of the Senior Leadership team.
• Lead, develop and facilitate a program of training for all grades of health and social care staff working within Children and Family Community Services. This should include the provision of regular training workshops, and reflective supervision sessions for health and social care staff, ensuring the workforce is kept up to date with evidence-based practice and learning.
• Contribute to the promotion of high standards of safety in practice and procedure and share and disseminate good practice and innovations in practice for example learning from appreciative inquiries, case reviews and rapid reviews held locally, pan-island and in the UK.
• Co-ordinate and support the in-house social work training program within Children and Family Community Services by acting as the link for social work students during placement and for prospective students seeking advice on accessing the HSC social work training pathway.
• Work in partnership with the teams to develop, implement, monitor and evaluate social care protocols, guidelines, standards and policies.
• Respond effectively to unpredictable problems and issues that may arise with the service and from time to time.
• Represent or deputise for the Service Manager Safeguarding & QA in Governance or other meetings and represent the service to external partners when requested or required.
• Other activities commensurate with this Job Description may from time to time be undertaken by the post holder.

Requirements of this Practice Development & Quality Assurance Coordinator job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.
• Experience within Adult Social Work.

Contact:
This Practice Development & Quality Assurance Coordinator  job is advertised by Keir Turnbull; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.