Social Work England Hiring for Education quality assurance officer Job at Remote Full Time

We’re looking for an education quality assurance officer to work collaboratively with course providers and key stakeholders in education to provide specialised knowledge and guidance to ensure high quality social work courses.

The education quality assurance team are responsible for the approval and monitoring of social work, AMHP and BIA courses. We work with education providers to make sure standards are embedded in practice and encourage innovative and creative approaches to course development. We undertake the quality assurance of education courses for social workers in England, assessing new course submissions and working to deliver the inspection and monitoring of courses leading to registration with us.

What you will do

• Work collaboratively with inspectors and course providers as part of an inspection team to facilitate robust and consistent inspection processes.
• Provide coaching and support for stakeholders connected to the course, course providers and to inspectors.
• Develop inspection plans which detail activities, timelines and priorities for the inspection, often as part of multiple inspection teams involving complex systems and processes.
• Lead on the delivery and smooth running of inspection activities, including determining use of resources, facilitating meetings with key stakeholders and representing us externally during the inspection process.
• Prepare and deliver detailed, comprehensive and accurate reports for each approval and monitoring process and agree the content of these reports with inspectors, so that robust, consistent and fair decisions can be made.
• Work with inspectors and other colleagues to ensure recommendations are supported by corroborated evidence, demonstrating a well-reasoned basis for decision making and an approach which stands up to scrutiny internally and externally.
• Articulate complex matters and able to negotiate with course providers and influence based on evidence and expertise.
• Work with inspectors to identify any concerns and development needs in courses, including any potential risks to public safety, and process and escalate these concerns in line with agreed procedures and timescales.
• Provide comprehensive and effective advice with specialised knowledge and skills, and a sound understanding of education policy to support educational providers within a region on educational, quality assurance and wider policies, processes and standards.
• Work autonomously to deliver an engagement strategy managing collaboration with course providers to be a single point of specialised knowledge covering multiple diverse routes into social work.
• Provide membership at key engagement events and identify opportunities to embed standards within social work courses and practice.
• Provide guidance at a course provider specific level and negotiate with others as a recognised expert in education quality assurance establishing expectations of provision of high quality education and training in social work.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships across-teams and other regulatory bodies and agencies.
• Able to respond proactively to a broad range of education topics in response to enquiries into Social Work England.
• Acknowledge, investigate and respond to concerns about courses and qualifications.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of continuous improvements of the education quality assurance processes, including facilitating focus groups and utilising advisory support.
• Deliver, analyse and report on approval and monitoring activity, identifying appropriate actions to embed standards, key learning opportunities from institutional regulation and decision-making routes.
• Support the head of quality assurance and quality assurance operations manager to ensure learning from the quality assurance process is effectively disseminated.

• Contribute to developing and maintaining best practice in policy and operations.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £33,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• Yes