SSCP Performance and Improvement Officer

Permanent FTE

Sefton Council, Bootle, Merseyside, Scale: Grade J - SCP 42-45

Introducing ourselves:

Sefton Safeguarding Children Partnership Business team is a small team but has huge energy and drive to co-ordinate an effective partnership to better safeguard our children and young people. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and experienced individual to the position of Performance and Improvement Officer. This role is pivotal in ensuring that evidence of the impact of partnership safeguarding activity is systematically embedded and shared with a focus on quality and innovation.

Job requirements:
This position requires high level multi-agency quality assurance and performance management, and analytical skills and an ability to work effectively across several agencies and partnerships.

The key objective of the role is to quality assess the safeguarding activities across the multi-agency partnership to ensure consistency across the borough and to report key areas of concern, as well as good practice. The post holder will be responsible for a range of audit activities including Section 11 of the Children Act 2005 as outlined in Working Together 2023 and Section 175 of the Education Act 2002. They will be a technical expert in their field.

In addition, you will support an effective service wide challenge to any safeguarding concerns and response to changing legislation, developing policy, procedures and guidance which reflect best practice nationally and locally.

The post-holder will understand safeguarding children legislation, processes, systems and the role of partner agencies in safeguarding children. This will include you to collate and disseminate learning from quality assurance work, ensuring the effective delivery of multi-agency safeguarding quality and service improvements.The Performance and Improvement Officer is also required to produce and develop performance intelligence/ Reports on activity and impact to inform and evaluate performance for the 3 Key Safeguarding Leads and subgroups of the partnership.

To be a successful candidate, you will need to possess excellent communication, analytical and organisation and report writing  skills, be personally resilient and above all, be passionate about demanding the best outcomes for children & young people.

You will need to be educated to degree level and have experience of partnership working.

This position reports to the SSCP Manager.

Equal Opportunities

Sefton Council strives to ensure that our workforce is inclusive and representative of our communities. A diverse workforce is important to us, our staff bring with them a wide range of experiences, views, ideas, and innovations, and we are committed to providing an environment that recognises, respects, and values everybody’s identity, where individual differences are strengths and where everyone can thrive and maximise their potential. We are always open to learning and growing as an organisation, and we welcome new ideas and initiatives that promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer; all candidates will receive equal treatment. Our decision to appoint will be based upon whether an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities make them the most suitable candidate for the role.

GUARANTEED INTERVIEW SCHEME

Please note that all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for these jobs (as given in the Person Specification) and who want to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme will be invited to interview.

If you are currently in care or have previously been in care, we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for care experienced people if you meet the essential requirements for the role.