The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise, which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The Role:
This is an exciting and influential opportunity based within Southwark’s Quality Assurance Unit.
The Audit and Practice Development service focuses on practice evaluation, practice development and pathways in to the social work profession.
The Audit and Learning Lead will play a key role in coordinating the learning and development offer and the dissemination of learning from our practice evaluation activities.
The Audit and Practice Development team offers high challenge and high support with our aspirations and every child and family within children’s social care receives outstanding social work support.
The Audit and Learning Lead is supported by a wider Team of professional development staff. There is dedicated administrative support and access regular, high quality reflective supervision.
About you:
We are looking for candidates with Social Work England registration and significant experience of management and leadership within children and families social work.
You will be a passionate, skilful and experienced social work practitioner who is keen to develop outstanding social work practice and outstanding social work practitioners.
We need a person who is child centred, has strong practice values that focus on strengths based approaches, genuinely values collaboration with families and communities and is relationship based in their approach to all that we do.
The successful candidate will be a champion for social work practice whichinformed by evidence, applies deep and critical analysis of issues drawing on evidence based frameworks and support and influence best practice at every level with the organisation.
You will also be highly organised and able to demonstrated skills in connecting and influencing across complex multi-faceted organisations.
You will also be fair,kind and compassionate.
In Southwark audits and practice development activities will be done alongside children, families and practitioners.
Additional salary details
Benefits and More Information:
https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/
https://jobs.theguardian.com/minisites/southwark-council/life-at-southwark-benefits-and-more/
Recruitment timetable
Application closing date: 11:59 PM on 3rd March 2023
Interview date: 16th March 2023
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment totackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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