SCP Quality Assurance Officer

SCP Quality Assurance Officer

The Safeguarding Children Partnership is seeking applications from individuals with both the passion and commitment for safeguarding children in Cheshire West and Chester and the ambition and skill required to ensure effective multi-agency safeguarding arrangements for children and young people.

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive – through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

Cheshire West and Chester’s Safeguarding Children Partnership are looking for a person with experience as a Quality Assurance Officer who can work with them to develop and embed multi-agency safeguarding practice.

This role requires an outstanding individual with proven experience of undertaking quality assurance work, particularly in partnership settings, and who has a good operational and strategic understanding of the safeguarding children’s agenda.

The successful candidate will need to evidence they can:

• Demonstrate experience of performance, quality and audit systems
• Be able to record data, analyse information and produce clear and concise reports
• Lead on multi agency case audits and support agencies self-audits and peer review
• Hold practitioners forums to share lessons from case audits, safeguarding children practice reviews and local good practice
• Work with our partners and relevant group chairs, on policy issues and service development in measuring the impact on engagement and outcomes for children and young people

The post will require an enhanced DBS check.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact: Leonie Pepper, Safeguarding Children Partnership Manager via email Leonie.pepper@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please click the Equality Policy for more information.

Closing date: Tuesday 29th September 2026

Interviews: Thursday 15th October 2026 at The Portal, Wellington Road, Ellesmere port, CH65 0BE.

Please note that this job is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and children. It’s a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in Regulated Activity (under the Safeguarding and Vulnerable Groups Act 2006) to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. adults at risk, children, or both).

To find out more information about what it is like to work for Cheshire West and Chester Council including our rewards and benefits please see www.cwcrecruitment.co.uk

No candidate will meet every single requirement - if your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please see the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £13.45 per hour for all contracted hours.

For any technical enquiries please email Sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk and quote job reference number in all correspondence.

Attachments

• RARJ 8354 SCP Quality Assurance Officer.pdf