Practice Improvement Lead

**Contract Type**: Fixed Term Contract (12 months)

**Contract Reason**: Secondment Cover

**Salary**:Grade J. SCP 40 - £48,474 to SCP 43 - £51,515 with a professional bar at SCP 41 £49,498**

**Hours Per Week**:36 hours

**Base Location**:Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

**Assessment Date**: To be arranged

**The Role**

We require a highly motivated and experienced social work practitioner to join the Safeguarding, Quality and Practice Service at Tameside Adult Services.

Tameside is a place that is passionate and committed to improving outcomes and creating a positive experience for individuals and families.

Our Corporate plan outlines our aims and aspirations for the area, its people and how we commit to work for everyone, every day.

Tameside adopts a positive working culture, we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We are committed to staff development and provide a wide range of training opportunities in a supportive working environment.

It is an exciting time to join us as we begin our plans to reform and redesign Adult Social Care to implement the plans outlined in the white paper ‘People at the Heart of Care’.

The Practice Improvement Lead is an essential part the quality assurance framework for Adult Social Care. The post is part of a team of professional leads that work across Adult Services.

**About You**

You will be passionate about strength based practice and delivering a high standard of social work practice.

You will work with the Principal Social Worker for Adults to develop and embed a Quality Assurance Framework. This will include:

- Carry out regular themed audits to ensure a good standard of social work practice
- Lead on and support the coordination of learning reviews and subsequent action plans
- Collate and share themes from compliments and complaints to support learning across Adult Social Care
- Share best practice and learning from reviews at staff events
- Develop and standardise policies and procedures
- Lead on how we embed the voice if lived experience within the Q&A Framework

You will work alongside work alongside Adult Social Care Teams to collate and analyse data from audits to recognise trends and support the development of teams in terms of targeted pieces of workforce development or reviews of policies and procedures.

If you are a strong leader and have a good track record of building relationships across a range of stake holders and are committed to contributing to a learning organisation we want to hear from you.

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

1. Relevant professional qualification for the job role at Level 6 or above AND a management qualification, AND

2. Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in the role, AND

3. Maintained membership of a regulated body where this is a requirement to practice in the role where applicable, AND

4. Professional standards practised to the highest expected level.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number**: DPT324