Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Quality Assurance Manager to work full time based in Uxbridge, for Regional Fostering Service.
The salary for this permanent Quality Assurance Manager job is up to £40,000 per annum.
Main duties:
- Manage the social work assessors, both independent Social Workers and Internal Social Workers delivering the assessments to deadline, through phone, email, fact-to-face and web forum.
- Decision making regarding each assessment and effective communication with families.
- To quality assure each assessment for social work content as well as all statutory checks and references.
- Manage the timing of assessments in line with the panel availability to ensure efficiency, liaising effectively with the Registered Manager and Recruitment and Panel Team, and Panel Chair as required.
- Oversee delivery of each family file coming into the organisation.
- Provide reports/statistics to the Senior Management Team on families in assessment, as required.
- Chair regular meetings within the team regarding families in assessment.
- Chair regular meeting with the team regarding post panel feedback and handover.
- Liaise with panel to gather feedback on assessment to improve quality.
- Produce clear and concise assessor guidelines.
- To recruit suitable qualified assessors.
- Provide an assessor training programme, either individually or in groups to provide clarity over RFS ethos.
- Provide guidance to the organisation on developments in assessments within the UK and any relevant changes in legislation.
- Liaison with a range of staff, including Panel Advisor, Panel Chair, recruitment and assessment team, external assessors, medical officer, referrals managers, trainers and others.
- Responsible for ensuring policies and procedures are up to date based on current legislation and guidance.
- Responsible for ensuring that Annual Foster Carers Review Reports including Reviews Following Concerns are quality assured and ready to be processed for recommendation to the ADM or Panel.
- Responsible for the timetabling of AFCR’S ensuring meetings are held within timescale and that reports are filled within timescale.
- Responsible for ensuring foster carers approval documents are filled appropriately and the agency’s policies and procedures are followed.
Requirements of this Quality Assurance Manager job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Continual professional development.
- Social Work England registered.
Contact:
This Quality Assurance Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; 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, Sanctuary Personnel 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.
Sanctuary 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, Sanctuary 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.
