Job Introduction
Quality & Standards Service – Recruitment Advert
Help us shape the future of high‑quality practice in Lincolnshire
Across Lincolnshire, great social work is built on curiosity, collaboration, and a deep belief in children’s potential. Our frontline teams live this every day, often in challenging and complex circumstances, and our Quality & Standards Service exists to stand alongside them. We strengthen practice, offer reflective challenge, and champion the high‑quality work taking place across the county.
This year, we are growing our service and bringing together passionate, reflective practitioners who want to influence practice across the whole system. Whether your strengths lie in assurance of care planning, delivering learning, practice oversight, or child protection leadership, there is a place for you here.
The roles we are recruiting to are detailed below.
Practice Advisor
As a Practice Advisor, you’ll step into a role where your experience truly shapes the quality of children’s services across Lincolnshire. Instead of holding a caseload, you’ll use your skills to coach, support and inspire practitioners—helping them grow in confidence and bringing practice models like Signs of Safety to life. You’ll lead and contribute to insightful audits, support learning across teams, and play a key role in driving improvement. This is perfect for someone who loves practice, loves people, and wants to influence positive change right across the service.
We are keen to hear from practitioners who are keen to support our quality audit function of the team, whilst also supporting in other areas of the Practice Advisor role.
Practice Advisor (Educators)
If you’re passionate about developing future social workers, this is the role for you. As a Social Work qualified Practice Advisor (Educator), you’ll be at the heart of our apprenticeship, placement and early‑career programmes—equipping new practitioners with the skills, confidence and reflective habits they need to thrive. You’ll deliver group supervision, observations and learning sessions, work closely with universities, and shape a supportive, high‑quality learning journey for every apprentice and student. This is an inspiring opportunity to nurture the next generation while still contributing to wider service learning and improvement.
What joining the Quality & Standards Service will give you:
A new kind of professional impact, using your skills and experience to influence practice across whole teams, services and systems.
A strong, supportive professional community, you will work alongside passionate colleagues who are committed to thoughtful, reflective, high‑quality social work.
Opportunities to grow and specialise: -whether your strengths lie in coaching, safeguarding, learning, research, or oversight, the service offers pathways to develop and refine your expertise.
A service built around purpose and quality:-Everything we do is about improving outcomes for children and strengthening social work practice across Lincolnshire.
Balance, reflection and purpose: Work in a space that prioritises thoughtfulness, learning and independent challenge, while still keeping children at the centre.
Is This the Right Step for You?
If you’re passionate about good practice…
If you value learning, improvement and thoughtful social work…
If you want to make a difference beyond frontline caseloads…
…then you’ll find a rewarding and meaningful home in the Quality & Standards Service.
About Our Offer:
Along with a competitive salary of £42,839-£47,181we are offering:
- A Contributory pension
- Comprehensive benefits package including excellent discount schemes and cycle to work
- Flexible working policies
- Career progression opportunities
- A generous annual leave entitlement plus the option to buy more
Further details can be found in our rewards and benefits brochure
Next steps
If this sounds like the role for you, then please read through the full Job Description, to help you do the best application possible, before clicking apply!
If you would like an open and informal discussion regards this role then please contact Practice Supervisor, Julie Adams via email in the first instance Julie.adams@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
Please refer to our Job Information Pack here to support you in your application.
A relocation package may be considered for the successful candidate. More details relating to our Relocation Policy can be found here.
Please be advised that this position may be subject to a criminal record check.
On occasion we receive significantly more applications than expected for some vacancies and under such circumstances we reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of the advertisement. We therefore strongly advise you to apply for the role promptly to avoid disappointment should the closing date be brought forward.
We operate a talent pool scheme whereby candidates who are not successful on this occasion may be considered for a period of up to 3 months for equal positions.
Lincolnshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
A Smarter Working Employer
We have embraced new ways of working and hybrid working will be a feature of this role. You will be given a nominated contractual work base and you will be required to commute to this work base when necessary. Working arrangements regarding hybrid working will be discussed as part of the appointment process.
Our technology platform and equipment is very good enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We require that you have in place good connectivity, and we will discuss during the recruitment process if support with this is needed.
Fluency Duty
In accordance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 (Fluency Duty), the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
Our values – collaborative, adaptable, eco-conscious, supportive, and responsible – guide everything we do. We’re looking for candidates who share these values and bring them to life in their work, helping us build strong teams and make a real difference in the communities we serve.
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