Quality Assurance Reviewing Officer - Court Tracking Role

Quality Assurance has a fantastic opportunity to further develop some of the QA work within the QARO function to include the tracking and assurance of court work.  This will facilitate tracking timeliness of children subject to PLO, effective support and plans under Supervision Orders, timeliness of proceedings and the work undertaken, Permanence arrangements, C2 applications and quality of work in Adoption cases. To analyse a range of data and intelligence and the translation of this information into reports and plans to improve outcomes for children and families.

This will include but not be limited to QA of the court statements and care plans to help facilitate learning, support progress of our pre proceedings work, QA of CPR’s and readiness for ADMs to deliver improved quality of the work.  Supporting less experienced staff or those who may be new to court work by sharing your skills and experience.

You will need experience of managing staff and demonstrate a good understanding of the court processes and quality needed in this work with good oversight of tracking and monitoring to ensure timescales are met and ability to devise and implement improvement activity. You will need significant understanding of legislation and timeframes.

Please tell us how your experience, skills and attitude could fulfil the role.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them. It will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check. See our policy on the employment of ex-offenders.

See our policy on safeguarding children and young people.

See the children’s social worker framework.

You must:

• have a degree in social work/Occupational Therapy or equivalent
• be able to fulfil the travel requirements of the post

We’re passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success

  You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

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