Job Introduction
Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April 2023 to enhance the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear, to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination, and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition – and you, yours.
So, if you’re up for the Challenge we’d love to hear from you!
About The Role
Within this role, you will drive and influence practice improvement by managing and leading all quality-assurance activity across Early Help, Parenting and Family Support, Fostering, Social Work, Residential and Youth Justice Service.
Within the role, you will prepare and present reports to share with senior managers and respective boards that oversee the improvement work for children’s services.
Within the role, you will also be ensuring that learning outcomes from audits are highlighted and embedded in practice and that outcomes for children improve.
You will also work closely with the Learning and Development team to ensure that the findings from auditing is feeding into the learning and development activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive improvements in service delivery to meet the needs of our children in care in line with the vision of the Trust. You will be responsible for delivering training, coaching and support residential childcare staff, equipping them with the essential knowledge and skills needed to provide a nurturing and therapeutic environment for our children.
- To be accountable for the quality of practice, setting standards and creating the conditions required for learning by motivating, nurturing, mentoring staff and contributing to practice development, including undertaking activity that links to the Childrens Services performance framework.
- Monitor and review the feedback and effectiveness of the training with the manager to ensure that the training needs of the service are met.
- You need to be able to collate, analyse and present complex data from a range of sources, and use this to prepare reports to understand the service that is being provided to the children and families of Bradford, and the areas that need to be strengthened.
About You
- Experience of quality assuring the services delivered to children and families.
- Professional social work qualification and registration with Social Work England.
- Experience and understanding of children services and the role that they play in improving the lives of children and families in Bradford.
- Experience of promoting good practice
- Comprehensive knowledge of social work practice and legislation, including safeguarding and subject knowledge that reflects best practice.
- Experience of building effective relationships and communicating with partners.
- Advanced IT skills – Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel are required as well as excellent time management and multi-tasking skills.
Benefits:
- Generous Employer Contributions in a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary and pay progression structure.
- Real living wage as the minimum rate of pay
- Supportive carer and parental policies
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to Occupational Health and confidential counselling services
- Supportive staff networks
- Access to Blue Light Card Discounts
- Professional development/support
- Career Progression
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Social Worker Registration Fees paid
- Flexible Working/Hybrid options subject to service need
Location: Sir Mitchell House
Next Steps
Please contact Anna Culver on 07483970750 for an informal discussion about the role. You can also email on anna.culver@bradfordcft.org.uk
Closing date: 19 January 2025.
Interview date: 27 January 2025
Interview Location: Sir Henry Mitchell House
Recruiter Contact Details: Anna Culver
Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.
If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check including a check against the Children’s barred list, will be carried out on preferred candidates.
