If you are passionate about improving practice, influencing quality and supporting better outcomes for vulnerable adults, this could be the perfect next step in your career. 

• Lead on the annual auditing programme for Adult Social Care and the People Directorate, co-ordinating a monthly programme of audits.
• Liaise with the Performance team to ensure performance information informs the collation and analysis of audit data for service improvement. 
• Co-ordinate the range of functions contributing to quality assurance through regular forums. 
• Offer advice, support and challenge in areas of improvement and development.
• Ensure our understanding of how we are performing is informed by feedback from our service users. 
• Provide regular reports on quality assurance activity to the relevant management teams. 
• Provide an annual report on audit activity, findings, learnings and actions to address them.
•  Support inspection and planning activity and contribute to delivery of identified action plans arising from audits and inspection. 
• Contribute to overall performance improvement in adult social care.

• Registration with Social Work England Social work qualification
•  Experience of working in Adults Social Care Some
•  Experience in quality assurance and audit work
•  Some experience in data analysis and reporting Use of Microsoft Office Applications – Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Understanding of and commitment to the requirements of safeguarding vulnerable adults and promoting their welfare.
•  Ability to understand and analyse quantitative and qualitative information and data. 
• Good understanding of national and local social work standards to drive the audit framework in adults social care 
• Ability to write clear and concise reports, draft responses for senior managers and to present information to a range of audiences. 
• Ability to challenge, negotiate and develop creative solutions to learning from auditing activity 
• Drive workforce improvement through learning from audit findings. 
• Ability to use IT systems. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including report writing. 
• Ability to guide and train others to adhere to standards, procedures and best practices
•  Be accountable for advice given and for own work

Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.