Tower Hamlets Council are recruiting for a Senior Practice development lead

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Practice Development Lead to directly support the way services are delivered within a youth service setting. The Senior Practice Development Lead will be responsible for leading on arrangements related to quality assurance, workforce development and learning reviews across Young Tower Hamlets and Youth Justice Service as part of achieving the best standard of service delivery for children and young people.

The key focus for this role is to lead on the design and implementation of a new quality assurance framework, developing an infrastructure that recognises and enables continuous improvement of excellent youth work practice. The service areas in scope are:

In this dynamic role the Practice Development Lead will:

• Support the Director and Head of Service on the Quality Assurance workstream ensuring all activities and plans are scoped and being delivered.
• To develop, embed and review a quality assurance framework incorporating universal, detached, participation, sports, targeted youth support and youth justice.
• Develop and implement a new child centred quality assurance framework and related activities to ensure the quality of youth work delivery is consistently good across all deliverables as well as driving excellence.
• Develop and implement comprehensive audit tools informed by the National Youth Agency as well as toolkits for youth work practitioners to use as part of their day-to-day practice.
• Review pathways and processes to ensure there is alignment to provide consistency in youth work practice.
• Development of Young Tower Hamlets policies, guidance and procedures and ensure they are translated into practice.
• To create a training and development approach to the workforce to ensure that the new ways of working are firmly embedded into day-to-day practice.

If you're interested in this role please call Delanie on 01772 208964 or email your CV to Delanie.heyes@servicecare.org.uk