Children Social Worker 2 yrs +

**Please only put forward candidates with significant CLA and Quality Assurance experience Introduction Are you passionate about improving the quality of care for children and young people? We are seeking a skilled, proactive Social Worker to join Lewisham’s Care Resources service on a temporary basis. This is a pivotal role focused on ensuring that every child living in residential care, supported accommodation, fostering, kinship care or under Special Guardianship receives safe, high quality and child centred support. In this role, you will lead and deliver a programme of planned and responsive quality assurance visits across our provider network. You will evaluate care standards, highlight strengths, identify areas requiring improvement, and set clear, outcome focused actions. Visits will take place primarily across London and the South East, with occasional travel nationwide. You will work collaboratively with providers to embed improvements and ensure progress is sustained. You will also contribute professional challenge, insight and leadership across Care Resources—supporting colleagues in fostering, kinship, SGO and placement teams to strengthen practice, build stability, and ensure compliance with statutory guidance and best practice standards.

About the Role In this role, you will lead and deliver a programme of planned and responsive quality assurance visits across our provider network. You will evaluate care standards, highlight strengths, identify areas requiring improvement, and set clear, outcome focused actions. Visits will take place primarily across London and the South East, with occasional travel nationwide. You will work collaboratively with providers to embed improvements and ensure progress is sustained. You will also contribute professional challenge, insight and leadership across Care Resources—supporting colleagues in fostering, kinship, SGO and placement teams to strengthen practice, build stability, and ensure compliance with statutory guidance and best practice standards.

If you’re ready to bring your experience, insight, and heart to a team that’s passionate about protecting and empowering young people this role is for you. What’s the role? Undertake quality assurance reviews across all Care Resources services, analysing practice and outcomes. Monitor compliance with statutory duties, regulatory expectations and internal standards. Evaluate provider performance and care environments, making evidence based recommendations. Work with providers to drive improvement through clear action planning and follow up visits. Strengthen placement stability and safeguard children’s wellbeing through robust oversight.  Promote a culture of continuous improvement, learning and high expectations. Lead a programme of Quality Assurance visits for other placement officers to lead on Develop and present reports based on the outcomes and themes from quality assurance visits.

What we’re looking for A qualified and registered Social Worker with strong safeguarding, quality assurance and assessment experience. Background in fostering, kinship, SGO, residential or placement services. Excellent analytical, communication and relationship building skills. Confidence to provide constructive professional challenge and influence practice. A commitment to ensuring children’s voices are central and their needs are met consistently.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape practice across Lewisham’s placement system and make a tangible difference to the lives of children and young people