UASC IRO Quality Assurance Manager

Role Responsibility

We are looking for a UASC IRO Manager to provide independent quality assurance of the care and accommodation provided for UASC in Kent’s Reception and Safe Care Service (RaSCS).

The RaSCS is responsible for the care and accommodation of newly arrived UASC until they can be transferred to another local authority under the National Transfer Scheme (NTS). These children are placed in a range of accommodation including Reception Centres, Foster Care and Semi-Independent provision. The aim of the role is to have strategic oversight of the quality of care, ensuring the safety of children. In doing so the UASC manager will lead on developing effective systems for monitoring, reviewing and creating improvement programmes to ensure best practice in the RaSCS.

The role will shape practice by developing and maintaining quality assurance for the UASC social work teams as well as the in-house regulated accommodation and services for newly arrived UASC to Kent. The QA manager will lead, motivate, and manage the team by developing polices, regulatory standards, audit methodologies such as the specialist UASC COA’s. They will Communicate the outcomes to audit colleagues, senior management and devise corresponding improvement programmes and inspection readiness initiatives.

This is an exciting challenge and an opportunity to create new and innovative ways of developing practice and achieving outstanding outcomes for children and leading practice for UASC children nationally.

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.

Interviews will take place virtually on either Wednesday the 4th of October or Friday the 6^th of October 2023.

As part of the interview process for this role you may be required to complete additional testing.

Contact Details

For further information please contact either:

Leemya McKeown, Assistant Director - Professional Standards & Quality Assurance, Tel: 03000 422190, Email leemya.mckeown@kent.gov.uk

Hayley Bodiam, Service Manager - Professional Standards & Quality Assurance, Tel: 03000 414776, Email hayley.bodiam@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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 and faiths, 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.