Senior His Majesty's Inspector, Social Care

2 months ago

South East, United Kingdom Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 289322**Salary**:

- £82,567 - £87,567- £87,567 (post probation) + home-based working and vehicle user allowance + performance related rewards**Job grade**:

- Grade 6- SHMI**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- OFSTED - Inspection and Improvement**Type of role**:

- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- South East England, West Midlands (England)About the job

**Job summary**:
Covering both local authority and regulatory social care services, you will lead teams of HMI and regulatory inspectors to deliver high quality inspections and regulatory activity which contributes to improved outcomes for vulnerable children. Modelling excellent inspection practice, you will make complex judgements and communicate them so that providers and local authorities can maximise their learning from inspection.

As part of the region’s leadership team, you will also have a unique contribution to work across our remits, ensuring that our insights are shared, and that children and young people are at the heart of everything that we do.

You will be an effective, experienced leader at a very senior level in children’s social care with a strong track record in quality assurance and constructively challenging others to improve their practice. Your ability to see the big picture, yet deliver on detail, will prove crucial to your success in the role.

**Job description**:
Reporting to a Regional Director, Senior HMI, Social Care are responsible for the performance management, development and deployment of a team of HMI and Regulatory Inspection Managers (and, through whom, for teams of regulatory inspectors), including some with national specialisms that will be shared across the country. Senior HMI will work alongside their direct reports and will coach, train and hold them to account.

Senior HMI are responsible for the quality of inspections, local authority improvement work, inspectors and inspection reports within their team(s). They are responsible for supporting improvement in provision and outcomes for children, young people and families through inspection, monitoring, challenge and sharing what we know works.

Each Senior HMI** **will form part of their senior management team and, as directed by the Regional Director, act as the named Ofsted link to one or more regional groupings of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services/Children’s Improvement Board on social care issues. They will develop a sophisticated understanding of what is happening in their region, informed by high quality data analysis and will drive improvement by working with the grain of what is happening on the ground.

**Person specification**:

- For more information, please refer to the job specification.**Benefits**:
Ofsted is committed to maintaining employee health and wellbeing, whether it is physically, emotionally, financially, or socially, and offers a range of benefits to support employees in this. Such benefits include the option to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme, professional and personal development opportunities, 32.5 annual leave days per annum (plus eight days public holiday) and access to counselling and advisory services.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.- This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- Ofsted ResourcingTelephone:
- 03000 131 487Recruitment team

**Further information**:

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