Quality & Safeguarding Assurance Officer

6 months ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Compass Fostering Full time

**About The Role**:
**Are you passionate about making a positive, lasting difference to **children** and young people’s lives?**

Do you want to work for a leading and progressive national childcare provider? Or perhaps you’re a social worker looking for their next challenge. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you

We have an exciting opportunity for a knowledgeable and experienced Safeguarding Practitioner to join our organisation as a ‘Quality and Safeguarding Assurance Officer’. You will share our commitment to delivering high quality by carrying out monitoring and reviewing activity across our residential children’s homes.

**Quality and Safeguarding Assurance Officer Role Requirements and Responsibilities**
- Undertake rigorous, thorough and impartial visits to children’s residential homes in accordance with Regulation 44 of The Children’s Home (England) Regulation 2015
- Work in collaboration with the operational colleagues to ensure that safeguarding practice and quality standards are adhered to and underpinned by continuous improvement
- Mentor, support and challenge where safeguarding requires improvements
- Ensure that Regulation 44 reports are produced in a timely manner preferably ability to write report at the time of the visit.
- Ensure that all paperwork produced in each service is to a high standard and evidences that children and young people in our care are being looked after safely.
- Drive a safeguarding culture and help create an environment of continuous improvement where safety is demonstrated through robust quality assurance and compliance processes which includes the recruitment, induction, supervision and appraisal process in line with organisational policy.
- Ensure that recording and documentation demonstrates social work theory and practice, underpinned by analysis of information, inquisitive questioning and on-going reflective practice.
- Ensure that communication and decision making in relation to quality and practice is effectively cascaded, monitored and reviewed in order to drive business and practice growth.
- Demonstrate commitment to group learning and a feedback loop to respond to “lessons learnt” within the Compass Community.
- Continually support the development of management information systems to ensure that safeguarding is managed effectively.
- Advise and recommend strategies and policy developments to support and develop safeguarding across the group.

Travelling for the role is required. Travelling times will vary, and you will be expected to travel within the area applied for up to 2-3 hours. Flexible working will be part of this role but visits to children’s homes will also be required along with attending meetings at other Compass offices._ _

The benefits of joining Compass Fostering
- **Career Development** - We offer many career paths, recognising hard work & supporting you into senior roles.
- **Competitive Salary** - using structured pay grades based on your training and experience.
- **Wellbeing** - Access to therapeutic wellbeing sessions with our Therapeutic Services team.
- **Bonuses** - receive £200 service award on your two-year anniversary, plus up to £500 special recognition service for outstanding practice.
- **Awards** - The chance to win up to £150 in vouchers every month from our REACH Awards.
- **MediCash** - Cashback for various medical appointments & treatments with MediCash.
- **Life Assurance Scheme** - 3 x annual salary after successful completion of your probation review.
- **Increased Holiday** - 27 days increasing gradually to 30 days after 4 years’ service.

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**About Us**:
Compass Fostering is a part of our wider community, providing fostering, residential, educational, and therapeutic services for the young people in our care.

We are a progressive, child-centred service, putting the wellbeing of our children and young people at the front and centre of everything we do.

We are proud to offer good and outstanding services in all of our regions across England and Wales, championing our staff teams who help us towards these outcomes.

Compass are a values-based children’s service, meaning that everything we do is underpinned by our REACH approach. It stands for Resilience, Education, Acceptance, Child-centred and Holistic; it’s a framework based on resilience theory, attachment theory and aspects of social pedagogy. We believe that this helps us to provide bespoke, consistent therapeutic care for each child, whilst supporting our staff and foster carers to ensure every young person has the best possible future.



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