Quality Assurance Officer - Children's Services

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Quality Assurance Officer to join Bolton Council's Children's Services on a locum basis. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in improving practice standards and driving positive outcomes for children and families across the service. You'll work closely with operational teams and managers to ensure high-quality social work practice and continuous service improvement. What will your responsibilities be? Undertake audits of children's social care casework. Identify strengths, areas for development and themes across the service. Support quality assurance and performance improvement activity. Contribute to practice development and learning initiatives. Produce detailed audit reports and recommendations. Work closely with managers and practitioners to promote best practice and compliance with statutory requirements. Benefits: £40.00 per hour Umbrella Hybrid working arrangements Supportive leadership team Opportunity to influence service-wide practice improvements Immediate interview availability Long-term contract opportunity Qualifications and Experience: To be successful in this role you must have; Social Work England Registration. Qualified Social Worker status. Significant experience within Children's Social Care. Strong understanding of safeguarding legislation and statutory guidance. Experience of auditing, quality assurance or practice improvement work is desirable. Excellent analytical and report-writing skills. Why Liquid Personnel? Free DBS and compliance service Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place* “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us * Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. BH - 201145 GH - 35730