HSCP Quality Assurance Officer

Our Story:

Halton is a vibrant local authority with a rich history and heritage, featuring two iconic bridges that connect communities across the River Mersey. Located in Cheshire, Halton boasts excellent transport links between Liverpool and Manchester, as well as close proximity to both Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester Airports.

Our progressive community strategy aims to bring about meaningful, long-term improvements that enhance lives. It’s an exciting time to join us as we develop new policies and transform the way people access services.

We are immensely proud that when asked what’s great about working for Halton, the most popular response from our workforce has been ‘our colleagues’.

Our Team:

The Business Unit is a small team that supports the Halton Safeguarding Children Partnership to carry out its core functions, including the subgroups, learning reviews, and delivering training.

The team also supports the development and implementation of the new safeguarding arrangements, and it ensures the effective delivery of roles and functions. The team is based at Rutland House on a hybrid basis.

If you would like to know more about us, please feel free to visit our website - About Us - Halton Safeguarding Children Partnership

Hours: 18.5 per week 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Your Contributions:

We are looking for part time Quality Assurance Officer to join our dedicated team. You will have a strong understanding of child development, Ofsted frameworks, and quality assurance processes, including auditing and evaluating practice. The role requires sound knowledge of legislation and policy in children’s services, alongside the ability to lead multi-agency audits, challenge practice constructively, and promote strengths-based, systemic approaches.

Some responsibilities of the role include:

• Supporting and delivering multi-agency quality assurance audits to evaluate and improve practice and outcomes for children, young people, and families, aligned with legal and practice standards
• Leading, participating in, and analysing thematic audits, including speaking directly with children, families, and professionals to gather qualitative insights
• Producing detailed audit reports and presentations, highlighting good practice, areas for development, and supporting continuous improvement across services
• Facilitating post-audit discussions and learning sessions with practitioners and managers to embed improvements and close the feedback loop
• Building effective working relationships across agencies, managing QA budgets, and supporting professional development through supervision and training

Our Offer:

Aside from working with a great team, our employees have access to a fantastic range of benefits, including:

• A generous annual holiday allowance starting at 34 days per year (including bank holidays), increasing with long service
• Membership of our defined benefit, salary-linked Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contributions
• 3 x Salary Life Cover via Local Government Pension Scheme
• Investment in your personal development
• Free Car Parking at HBC sites
• Flexible working arrangements
• Extensive employee benefits platform including discounted shopping, car leasing, gym memberships, wellbeing hub and Employee Assistance Programme

Next Steps:

At Halton Borough Council, we want all of our candidates to feel well-informed so if you would like to have an informal chat about this role, please contact Gray Prince – Gray.Prince@halton.gov.uk.

Interviews will provisionally take place week commencing 29th September 2025.

At Halton Borough Council we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce and a vital part of this is to encourage diversity in all respects. We are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and tailored to best suit the needs and strength of the individual. This includes making adjustments for people with a disability, neurodiversity or with long-term health conditions. If you require accommodations, please reach out during the recruitment process so that we can make this the best possible experience for you – resourcing@halton.gov.uk

Please refer to the attached Job Profile for further information about the role and our values.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please complete your application as early as possible.

We look forward to receiving your application!