Practice Development Officer

Role Responsibility

Practice Development Officer

Role Responsibility

The Safeguarding Unit has an exciting opportunity to deliver a Quality Assurance Framework and Practice Framework that trains and develops CYPE staff whilst understanding and influencing KCC’s journey to continue to be Outstanding. We have an opportunity in our team for a Practice Development Officer to work across Practice Development Teams with a focus on adolescents including unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and those supported by Youth Justice Services.  You will be educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification in Social Care, Health, Youth Work or Teaching and/or extensive experience. You will have a strong safeguarding knowledge and be passionate about theories and improving practice across CYPE in Kent. The successful candidate will:

• Lead and model and promote high quality frontline practice.
• Facilitate the implementation of the Children’s Home and Supported Accommodation Quality Assurance Framework to monitor and evaluate statutory requirements.
• Drive the development of effective practice with adolescents and their families in response to extra familial harm.
• Guide frontline managers and practitioners to support the implementation of KCC’s practice framework.
• Delivering training to frontline practitioners to drive outstanding practice and new initiatives.
• Facilitate and undertake ongoing audits and research of integrated practice.

Interviews will take place 25^th and 27^th  of March, these will take place in Maidstone face to face. The interviews will consist of an interview panel and presentation exercise.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Contact Details

For further information please contact Gayle Levy on 03000 418199 or Katy Batt on 03000 411087, or Joanna Dunn, the Business Support Lead joanna.dunn@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.