The role
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
About 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 disseminating 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 within a wider Team of professional development staff. There is dedicated excellent administrative support with access to regular, high quality reflective supervision.
Additional details
About You:
We are looking for candidates with Social Work England registration and 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 informed by evidence, apply 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.
Part Time – 22 hours per week for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract
We will only consider applications from internal candidates, that are current employees or agency workers on an active assignment. We encourage any internal staff to to gain agreement from their substantive line manager if considering this is as a secondment opportunity.
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) DBS check at enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
SWCINT
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 to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. 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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