Practice Lead - Early Career and Workforce Dev

Job description

Slough Children First are seeking a skilled and motivated social work qualified professional to lead the delivery of our social work development programmes, including Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE), Step Up to Social Work, student placements, Frontline, and Social Work Apprenticeships. You will ensure these pathways are delivered to a consistently high standard, supporting the development of confident, capable practitioners. Working in partnership with Human Resources, you will play a key role in recruitment, retention, and workforce sustainability, helping to attract and retain high-quality social workers in line with the Slough Children First (SCF) workforce strategy. As an ambassador for the Academy, you will promote its values and vision, embedding them across all learning and development activity. You will maintain high professional standards, ensuring staff wellbeing, manageable caseloads, effective supervision, and access to learning opportunities. You will also lead on induction, embedding SCF’s practice model and expectations from the outset, whilst taking timely action where standards fall short. As our Practice Lead, you will support and develop manager...