Member Job Opportunity: Fair Ways - Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Central Support (Portsmouth)
Contract Type: Part time
Closing Date: 28 February 2023
Salary: £34,789 - £42,457 (FTE)
Specific Hours: 16 hrs Per Week

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Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?
Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops!

Where and when do we need you?
Working as part of our Quality Assurance Team you play your part in providing operationally independent oversight of the quality and safety of Fair Ways services, to recognise best practice and identify opportunities to raise standards so that the organisation continually improves and bring about lasting change.

In this role you will be involved exciting and rewarding things like:

• Ensuring that all Fair Ways’ services receive quality assurance visits - this will include regulatory inspection visits as prescribed by regulations for children’s homes and the family centre, as well as establishing a quality assurance framework for all other services.
  
• Formulating and producing high quality, analytical reports, passing these to relevant managers and regulatory bodies as required within required timescales.
  
• Participating in the organisational ‘lessons learned’ process which is co-ordinated by the Quality Assurance Lead.
  
• Identifying from quality assurance activity where there are opportunities for organisational learning and being involved in formulating plans to progress these.
  
• Demonstrating effective communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written as well as being reliable, enthusiastic, creative and honest

This role is offered on a 16 hr per week basis. One of the days worked must be a Friday however we can offer flexibility with the additional hours/days. This role will be a hybrid position, working from home, working from our central support office and visiting our range of services within the Solent area (and additional locations as required.)

You and your specialisms
Our internal community is core to achieving our mission of making a difference through passionate care, support, and education. To support this, you will have the following:

• Proven experience in devising and implementing programs of change and improvement to services and specifically quality assuring or inspecting services.
  
• Hold a Social Work Qualification or an NVQ Level 4/5 Registered Managers Award or equivalent.
  
• Have a minimum of 2 years management experience of running a regulated residential service for children or young adults or experience of managing and supervising teams of workers where safeguarding is central to the business of the team

Let us look after you!
Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector:

• Staff lotteries (including prizes such as £1000 holiday vouchers, weekends away, luxury hampers and vouchers)
  
• Holiday Accrual Scheme (an extra 3 days at 3 years service) and additional Holiday Purchase (up to 5 days)
  
• Health Shield (Health cash plan)
  
• Employee Assistance Scheme (Application based emergency financial assistance for employees)
  
• Education Grant – (funding up to master’s level accreditation)
  
• Wellbeing Initiatives - Team Building Days, Summer Festival, Wellbeing boxes
  
• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 counselling service)
  
• Highstreet discount platform, Discounted Gym Membership
  
• Cycle to Work Scheme
  
• Leadership Courses
  
• Annual Staff Awards/ Long Service Awards
  
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
  
• £1000 Refer a Friend Scheme
  
• £250 Refer a Foster Carer Scheme

Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you!

Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities.

Full details and application documents here