Overview
In this role you will oversee quality and safeguarding across adult social care services within the borough. You’ll visit providers, assess compliance, and drive improvements to safeguarding arrangements. You will coordinate safeguarding inquiries and support multi‑agency strategy meetings, influencing providers to meet high standards. You’ll work with health, social care, and safeguarding partners to improve outcomes for residents, contributing to a collaborative, community‑focused agenda with innovation at its core.
Pay / Benefits
- leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays
- potential hybrid working opportunities
- health and wellbeing support
- generous local government pension scheme
- discount schemes across leisure and culture
Responsibilities
- Monitor quality and safety of regulated and non-regulated adult social care services
- Conduct visits to care providers to assess compliance and identify improvement opportunities
- Lead and coordinate safeguarding enquiries and investigations within the framework
- Support the Chair of safeguarding strategy meetings and contribute to multi‑agency safeguarding arrangements
- Collaborate with providers to improve practice and safeguarding arrangements
- Develop and maintain systems for monitoring quality and safeguarding performance
- Analyse information and produce reports, briefings, and recommendations for senior leaders
- Respond to concerns, complaints, and emerging risks within the care market
- Collaborate with health colleagues, social work teams, mental health services, and other partners to improve outcomes for residents
Key requirements
- Strong knowledge of adult safeguarding legislation, policy, and practice
- Experience in adult social care, health, commissioning, quality assurance, or safeguarding environments
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Ability to influence, challenge, and support providers to achieve high standards
- Strong analytical and organisational skills with ability to manage competing priorities
- Experience collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders and agencies
- Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act, Mental Health Act, Care-related legislation, and Equality legislation
- Commitment to promoting dignity, independence, choice, and person-centered support
- communication
- relationship-building
- influencing and advocacy
- analytical thinking
- knowledge of safeguarding frameworks
- data analysis and reporting
Quality Assurance and Safeguarding Officer in London employer: Haringey Council
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