Practice Improvement Officer

Liquid Personnel is currently recruiting for an experienced Practice Improvement Officer for its client in Bolton, supporting the continuous development of social work practice across Children's Services.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Lead and support practice improvement activity across Children's Services, helping to improve outcomes for children and families.
• Design and deliver learning and development initiatives informed by audit findings, quality assurance activity, and identified practice themes.
• Facilitate breakfast briefings, lunchtime learning sessions, workshops, and staff engagement events to promote best practice.
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and role modelling to practitioners, supporting the development of high-quality social work practice.
• Support practitioners to understand audit findings and implement learning to improve performance and practice standards.
• Develop and share learning materials and resources based on quality assurance findings and emerging practice issues.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of career entry and progression programmes, including apprenticeships, Frontline, and Return to Social Work initiatives.
• Work collaboratively with children, young people, families, and professionals to understand and improve the quality of practice.
• Support the development of a positive learning culture and ensure quality assurance activity effectively influences frontline practice.
• Design and deliver responsive training programmes across the workforce to meet identified service needs.
• Promote strength-based, child-centred, relational, and restorative approaches to practice.
• Influence practice standards, professional development, and workforce learning across the service.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, organisational policies, procedures, and professional standards.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of research, legislation, and best practice developments to support continuous service improvement.

Benefits:

• Excellent rate of pay
• Advanced Practitioner Level
• Great development opportunity
• Flexible/Hybrid working
• Free onsite parking
• Paid for a 37-hour working week
• MS Teams interviews

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Social Work England registration.
• Eligible to work in the UK.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.
• Degree level qualification in Social Work (DipSW/CQSW or equivalent).
• Extensive post-qualification experience within Children's Social Care.
• Experience of supporting professional staff to deliver high-quality social work practice.
• Strong knowledge of childcare legislation, safeguarding procedures, and evidence-based practice.

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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