Salary - £57,867
Location Swindon
We're currently partnered with a client based in Swindon who are looking for a Quality Assurance Reviewing Officer.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Quality Assurance Reviewing Officer (QAROs) to join our growing team. Reporting to the Service Manager, you’ll deliver high-quality independent oversight across children in care, child protection, and fostering reviews - ensuring statutory safeguarding requirements are met while driving service improvement.
QAROs play a key role in promoting strengths-based practice, supporting professional challenge, and fostering effective multi-agency collaboration. The service champions a child’s right to family life and is central to Swindon’s Family Safeguarding model, which is making a real difference to children and families. When care is needed, QAROs ensure the Local Authority provides the best possible support.
About You
You’re driven by purpose, passionate about making a difference, and ready to help shape the future of Children’s Services. We’re a local authority committed to continuous improvement, and we want social workers who share our ambition to be part of that transformation. In return, you’ll be fully supported with the training, resources, and professional network needed to thrive. Our teams are proactive, forward-thinking, and united by a shared goal: delivering the best outcomes for children and families. If that sounds like you, we’d love to have you on the journey.
Must Have
- SWE Registration
- A relentless commitment to quality
- Minimum of 5 years post qualifying experience including previous and recent management experience of supervising staff in a Children Social Care setting
- Experience of chairing complex meetings when there is conflict and anxiety to manage
- Experience of managing complex Child Protection and Cared for Children work where children may be removed from their parents care.
- Supervisory and management experience.
- Expert knowledge of current and relevant child care legislation, guidance and procedures.
Benefits
- £8,000 relocation package (eligibility criteria applies)
- Free Parking
- 28 days holiday allowance
- Pension Contributions
- Professional Development opportunities
- Flexible working
If you're driven to put children and young people at the centre of your practice and have the ambition to shape brighter futures, we’d love to hear from you!
Please contact Daryl.Jackson@liquidpersonnel.com for a confidential chat!
Liquid Personnel is a specialist social work and healthcare recruitment consultancy. Founded in 2006, we are now the leading provider of agency social workers in the UK, trusted by over 150 organisations nationwide to provide exceptional agency staff.
We also specialise in the following divisions:
• Nursing - temporary and permanent nurses
• Allied Health Professionals - temporary occupational therapists and physiotherapists
• Criminal Justice - temporary prison nurses, probation officers, and youth offending officers
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- Listed in the UK's Best Medium Workplaces Awards 2013 - 2017; winners of the Laureate Award 2017, recognising that we have been ranked in the awards for 5 years in a row
- 24th in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2016
- Winners of the Best People Development Business Award and Best Back Office Support Team Award 2016 at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals Awards
- 7th fastest-growing business in the Manchester area in the Greater Manchester Fastest 50 2016
- 11th in Recruiter Fast 50 2016 rankings
- Winners of "Best Large Recruitment Agency" at the Recruitment Business Awards 2015
- Holders of Investors in People status
- Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Members
- 'Disability Confident Employers'
