Children’s Social Worker, Quality Assurance Officer / Advanced Practitioner, Bolton

VITALIS BVGreater Manchesterreedpublished 10/26/2026

Your tasks

We are recruiting for experienced Children’s Social Worker in the Greater Manchester area. This to work as a Quality Assurance Officer in Bolton. The Quality Assurance Officer will be responsible for improving and influencing social care practice across the Directorate by undertaking a variety of quality assurance activities including undertaking and coaching others to undertake audits, dip sampling, and providing forums for joint learning to support a continued understanding of what good looks like. Key Responsibilities

  • Undertake a variety of quality assurance activity to understand the practice and the services being delivered to our children and families. This will be underpinned by our practice approach, which includes relational and restorative practice principles.
  • Support embedding practice standards and expectations.
  • Offer high support and high challenge to enable consistently good outcomes for our children and families.
  • Ensure quality case file audit recommendations/actions have been completed through tracking and dip sampling,
  • Ensure learning has taken place and been embedded from audit cycles via dip sampling.
  • Undertake specific audits and reviews as required.
  • Collect and collate feedback from our children and families to support understanding the quality of practice.
  • Contribute and work with managers across the service as part of the quality assurance framework to ensure that audits are influencing practice.
  • Provide coaching to practitioners/audit pool to enable a shared understanding of audit purpose and support quality.
  • Contribute to preparation of inspections across all practice areas.
  • Contribute to workforce wide development when required.

What we offer

This is an agency post and we can offer you:-

  • A Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to
  • An easy registration process (all done online)
  • Referral schemes and incentives
  • Ongoing compliance managed for you
  • Prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

How to apply

Please get in touch for more information.

Please contact Graham Leatham on or email for more information. We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this isn’t the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO, BIA, MASH, LAC, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager

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Children’s Social Worker, Quality Assurance Officer / Advanced Practitioner, Bolton Pay rate £40 per hour Contract role, Quality Assurance Officer

Contact person

Listed by the employer in the job posting — for questions and your application.

  • Graham Leatham