Practice Quality Assurance and Compliance Lead

Practice Quality Assurance & Compliance Lead

Permanent,

Grade 6 - £52,413 - £64,811.  Consultation grade, subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working Full-time, 36.5 hours per week. 

The role is hybrid however the post holder would be required to work from Birmingham City Council buildings as business needs dictate. 

About Us

Do you want to make a real difference for children, young people and families in Birmingham? Do you have a passion for collaborative strength based, relationship centred decision making and service design and provision? 

Outside of London, Birmingham is the UK’s most diverse city and has the largest number of young people in its city than any of its European counterparts. Birmingham is on a journey of significant change, ready to reset, reshape and restart. To do this well we recognise that we need to strengthen our permanent arrangements across fundamental functions by increasing internal expertise and capacity.

Birmingham’s Children and Families Directorate are recruiting a series of posts to expand the Strategy, Governance and Planning service. This is truly an exciting opportunity to showcase your skills, knowledge, and experience to facilitate meaningful change for the children, young people, and families of Birmingham. 

Our team ethos is centred on appreciation for individuality and individual contribution and expertise and the value of this to the team’s collective success and ability to sustain positive outcomes. We strive to ensure that our working environment is inclusive, supportive, and empowering. 

About The Role

As a key member of the Strategy, Governance and Planning team, you will lead the design and delivery of quality assurance and compliance systems and monitoring tools. You will also with the support of a small team, lead on the Directorate’s internal and external profile. This strategic focus will enable the Directorate to improve the quality of services provided to children, young people and families, secure compliance across our fundamental functions and take a proactive approach to our internal and external communication and relations.  This will include collaboration across the partnership to transform the multi-agency approach to quality assurance, compliance and interagency/discipline relations. Arrangements will need to empower the Directorate’s ability to triangulate insight to effectively inform decision making and service design. 

About You

We are looking for a confident, creative, and ambitious Practice Quality Assurance and Compliance Lead to join our new and expanding team. We are working across a large, diverse city through an exciting, yet challenging time of transformation and improvement.  If you are looking for your next challenge and have the passion and determination to secure the very best opportunities for children and young people, join our energised and dedicated team.

Putting children, young people, and families across Birmingham first at all times is at the heart of everything you do, you will manage resources, operate within financial priorities to deliver value for money for the Council and our strategic partners while ensuring the best possible services and outcomes for children, young people and families.  

You will be an experienced, driven, creative and a passionate advocate for children and young people. You will work to instil a nurturing empathetic culture that values high-performance, and inclusivity, shaping and developing the skills of your team so that each and every person can get the most from their role, feeling encouraged to thrive.

In return, we’ll match your commitment to us with opportunities to grow and develop your knowledge and experience as well as other rewarding career progression routes. We also offer competitive salaries and annual leave, membership of the local government pension scheme, and access to a variety of employee assistance programmes, to support the well-being of our workforce.

For any informal enquires please contact: cfgovernanceandplanning@birmingham.gov.uk 

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application.  The Supporting Statement should outline how you meet the essential criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post.  Note the Supporting Statement should be no more than 1500 words.  Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Supporting Statement attached.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

We recognise and value the importance of a healthy work life balance and support flexible working arrangements. We believe that the success of the Directorate, relies on the strength of professional working relationships and our ability to facilitate engagement and participation. We actively promote the benefits of time in the office to connect with colleagues, collaborate on workstreams and remain connected to your team and our communities of partners across Birmingham. 

Therefore, whilst the role is hybrid, the post holder will be required to work from Birmingham City Council buildings as business needs dictate. 

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

Interviews for this post will take place virtually via video conferencing. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information

• Ref: BCC2243
• We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
• A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Job Description and Person Specification

We are a disability confident employer and we encourage applicants with disabilities to apply. We also welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed. Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) may need to apply for a visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and may require a Certificate of Sponsorship from Birmingham City Council for a skilled worker visa (if the job is eligible).