ERSCP Multi-agency Quality Assurance Practice Lead

The job itself

The East Riding Safeguarding Children Partnership (ERSCP) currently has a new and exciting opportunity for a highly experienced lead practitioner to join the ERSCP Business Unit as the ERSCP Multi-agency Quality Assurance Practice Lead. The post has a key role in helping to evaluate the effectiveness of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding arrangements to protect and promote the wellbeing of children and young people in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The post holder will report to the ERSCP Business Unit Manager. The ERSCP Business Unit is hosted within the Children Young People Support & Safeguarding Services (CYPSSS). This is a permanent post.

The Job itself:

The post holder will support the ERSCP Business Unit Manager and Partners to ensure that there are effective multi-agency safeguarding arrangements in place within the East Riding as determined by legislation, and national and local guidance including the Children Acts (1989, 2004) and Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023). The post holder must be committed to safeguarding and promote the welfare of children, young people, and adults, raising concerns as appropriate.

Day-to-day duties:

• Develop and embed the audit and quality assurance framework across the ERSCP.
• Lead and undertake quality assurance and audit activity across the ERSCP to quality assure and monitor the effectiveness and impact of the multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for children in the East Riding.
• Support partner agencies to undertake single agency self-assessment and benchmarking exercises to evaluate their agencies' progress, embed good practice and evidence impact and outcome aimed at enhancing multi-agency safeguarding practice.
• Co-ordinate and evaluate Safeguarding Partners and Relevant Agency adherence in discharging their duties under s11 of the Children Act 2004 or s175 and s157 of the Education Act 2002.
• Collate and analyse findings from ERSCP quality assurance and audit activity to identify learning including themes, trends, practice gaps and challenges within the multi-agency practice system. Triangulate findings with local and national performance data and formulate potential solutions which Partners can consider in mitigation.
• Prepare and present regular audit outcome reports and recommendations to the ERSCP and other Boards as required.
• Create, manage and evaluate multi-agency action plans to address learning identified in all ERSCP quality assurance, audit, and reviews.
• Undertake Rapid Reviews and Local child safeguarding practice reviews in accordance with the statutory guidance from the National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.
• Cascade learning from audit activity through webinars, Learning from Audit Briefings and Seven Minute Briefing to support improvement in Multi-agency Safeguarding Practice.
• Work closely with partner organisations, including faith, voluntary and community sector to support, promote and advise on safeguarding standards.
• Ensure that the voice of children and families is considered as part of the scrutiny, quality assurance activity and that their direct feedback informs policy and practice improvement.
• Lead preparation for independent scrutiny, peer reviews, external audits and inspections including Ofsted and JTAI.
• Act as project lead on safeguarding initiatives, facilitating short term Task and Finish Groups to take forward priority safeguarding projects as determined by the ERSCP Business Unit Manager.
• Play a lead role in raising awareness of the role of the East Riding Safeguarding Children Partnership and the role of professionals and the public in ensuring that Safeguarding is Everyone's Business.

See the job outline and specification for more details of the role, qualifications and skills required.