Quality Assurance Lead

Reference

HUL/25/0382

**Full Time Equivalent Salary (based on a 37 hour working week)**

£43693 - £46731

Occupational group

Care/Social Work - Children's

Job term

Full Time

Appointment type

Fixed Term

Hours

37

Division

Children and Family Services - Directorate

Closing Date

01 August 2025

Proposed Shortlisting Date

11 August 2025

Proposed Interview Date

20 August 2025

Place of work

79 Lowgate, Hull HU1 2AA

For an informal discussion please contact

Paul Brownlee

Contact telephone

07720 095 747

This is a maternity cover, fixed term role for up to 12 months.

A great opportunity has arisen for an experienced and ambitious Social Worker to join the Improvement, Performance and Quality service in Hull, leading our quality assurance and audit processes to support the delivery of high-quality and impactful practice across the Children Young People and Family Services, including all services across the social care pathway, early help, learning and skills and youth justice offer.

Your role will be to lead and support our audit functions and other quality assurance processes which enhance our understanding and learning and inform the continuous improvement cycle for children and families in Hull.

As the Quality Assurance Lead you will be supporting the improvement of practice, informing service development, influencing commissioning and supporting workforce learning through the development and implementation of effective quality assurance activity and processes.

You will support the Senior Leadership Team and others in ensuring high quality practice standards are developed and maintained across social care, early help, learning and skills and SEND services

You will lead on the audit process across CYPFS, undertake audits and dip sampling, carry out survey activity with practitioners and children and families, analyse practice, support learning and promote the development of effective practice.

You will support and manage the Quality Assurance Improvement Officer to use effective data collection, data collation, and extraction skills to produce timely and accurate reports which will inform and influence management decisions about performance, quality, and improvement activity.

You will use your organisation and communication skills to ensure that quality assurance activity is undertaken in a timely and accurate way.

The role is integral to our Children’s services improvement journey and a commitment to improving the lives and outcomes of children and families in Hull is fundamental to the post.

The role can be undertaken with hybrid home / on site working. The office base is at Lowgate, our newly refurbished building in the centre of Hull.

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We are committed to increasing the diversity, equity, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Hull City Council embraces the principles of WorkSmart and this post has been identified as a suitable role. WorkSmart principles create opportunities facilitating a combination of working in the office, ad hoc homeworking, or working from various locations, therefore being flexible about where/ how you carry out your role, the specific opportunities available will be discussed at interview.