Practice Lead Audit Officer

What will you be doing?

Your day-to-day duties will include providing line management to the Practice Auditors, supporting the development of our audit programmes by collaborative working with colleagues across the operational service, and participation in team activities such as the ongoing development of our audit tools and processes, the design and delivery of reflective sessions to colleagues in adult social care and the production of practice guidance to support colleagues.  

You will be required to support the auditor team with the completion of case audits through providing professional practice guidance and leadership, prepare case summaries and seek out evidence of our work with individuals in Cambridgeshire; this includes direct contact with adults with care and support needs, unpaid carers and working with our partnership boards to ensure a collaborative approach to developing our work. 

You will identify any areas of challenge and support the development of action plans in the response to the challenges. 

In order to complete this work, you will be working closely and collaboratively with the Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Manager, the Head of Quality Assurance and Practice Standards and other key stakeholders.

You will have the opportunity to be involved at every level of adult social care operational teams, and work with shared teams including our learning and development team, customer care team and business intelligence team. 

Your line manager will be the Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Manager, but as a small and close team, you will receive daily support from all within the team, including regular opportunities to participate in team reflective sessions and support the wider work of the Quality Assurance and Practice Standards Team.

About you

We need someone who is either an experienced Social Worker registered with Social Work England or alternatively qualified in a relevant profession. You must have experience of social care with adults and be skilled with working with others.  

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about developing social care practice in Cambridgeshire. The right person for this role will be someone who has an understanding of what good practice looks like and ideally, experience of quality assurance in a social care setting. 

We are a team which works across service areas, and we work hard to form and maintain positive working relationships with our colleagues. A track record of positive partnership working is essential as well as excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 

It is important that you are able to demonstrate excellent planning, prioritisation, time management and leadership skills. 

As the role involves quality assurance of practice through the use of case audits and tracking you must have an eye for detail and the ability to apply professional analysis and scrutiny to information. It is essential that you are skilled in using Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Excel, Word, Teams, One Drive) and social care case recording systems.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers