Quality and Assurance Senior Advisor (Social Worker)NHS
Job summary
We are pleased to introduce a new role to strengthen safeguarding assurance and risk management across the Enfield community and working across care groups and the wider Trust.
This role is ideally suited to an experienced safeguarding professional with strong analytical skills, the ability to interpret and present complex data, and excellent leadership and communication abilities. The successful candidate will play a vital role in ensuring safeguarding remains a core priority across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
The Quality and Assurance Senior Advisor will provide Trust-wide leadership in quality assurance, with a key focus on overseeing Persons in a Position of Trust (PIPOT) cases from initial triage through to closure. The post-holder will ensure robust processes are in place to manage allegations effectively, consistently, and in line with statutory guidance. The role will lead on delivering comprehensive audit and assurance programmes, supporting compliance monitoring, and providing oversight of safeguarding risks. Key areas of responsibility include sexual safety, chaperoning practices, and safeguarding standards, ensuring high-quality care and protection for service users. Working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, the post-holder will strengthen governance, promote a culture of accountability, and drive continuous improvement across safeguarding practice.
Job description
Develop, implement, and continuously evaluate safeguarding assurance tools in line with current legislation, CQC Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs), and NHS England standards in Enfield working closely across the 5 Care groups.
Design and maintain audit frameworks to monitor compliance with relevant Pan London safeguarding guidance, policies and procedures, and locally agreed protocols.
Lead and deliver a comprehensive safeguarding audit programme, including key areas such as chaperoning, sexual safety, and the management of allegations against Persons in a Position of Trust (PIPOT).
Undertake thematic reviews, deep dives, and produce organisational learning reports to support continuous improvement.
Analyse audit findings to identify trends, lessons learned, and areas of risk, ensuring clear, evidence-based recommendations are made to strengthen practice and governance.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.