Quality Assurance Officer
Team: Quality Assurance Service
Job Family: CBG12 – Enabling
Salary: £45,326 to £50,436 per annum pro rata
Contract: Hybrid – Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month
Closing Date: 10th December 2025 – we reserve the right to close this advert early, please keep this in mind when preparing your application.
Interview Date: 16th December 2025 at Priory House, Monks Walk, Shefford, Bedfordshire, SG17 5TQ
About the role:
We are excited to offer the opportunity to join our Quality Assurance Service as a Quality Assurance Officer.
We’re looking for an innovative and dynamic QA Officer to focus on alternative education provisions and educational placements for children with SEND, one who is tenacious about quality, can drive up performance and is committed to excellent services to children and their outcomes. You’ll be working with a highly regarded QA Service, and will have the unique opportunity to directly build relationships with children, young people, staff and stakeholders providing full quality assurance evaluations for our residential services.
You’ll quality assure the safety and wellbeing of children and providers for residential placements for children, residential children’s homes, 16+ placements, alternative education provisions and educational placements for children with SEND. You’ll influence at all levels, be an integral, critical friend to our Leadership Teams and our providers, working closely with operational, commissioning and contract colleagues across Children’s Services; contributing to both our operational and strategic aims and objectives.
It’s a great time to join us; our Children and Families directorate has been awarded ‘employer of the year’ alongside a ‘Good’ OFSTED inspection in 2025. We pride ourselves on delivering excellent quality relationship-based practice, and are a cohesive and highly performing workforce which embraces a continual learning and developing culture.
Is this exciting opportunity speaking to you? To apply you will need a proven track record in Quality Assurance and working within Local Authority Children and Family Services or Residential Homes or Education.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Ben Feasmen at ben.feasmen@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 6820
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Safeguarding:
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council’s policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
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