Inspector
We have an exciting opportunity to join a leading charity as an Inspector on the Inspection and Internal Audit team. If you believe every childhood is worth fighting for, then we would love to hear from you!
Position: Inspector - Inspection and Internal Audit team
Salary: £46,863 - £56,935
Location: London or Birmingham with considerable travel within the UK (other geographical bases may be considered)
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Working Hours Per Week: Full time (35 hours) or part time (17.5 hours)
Closing Date: 27th September
The Role
The Inspection and Internal Audit Unit are part of the Chief Executive Office and play a vital role in the organisations purpose to end cruelty to children and ensure the implementation of the charity’s strategy. They ensure effective control to managed risk including financial and safeguarding controls.
In addition, the role of Inspection is twofold; to help Trustees and Senior Managers know how well the organisation is managing risk; and to provide an impartial view of the quality of services and activities. This is delivered through an annual inspection plan (which sets out themed inspections) as well as a programme of shorter Service Quality Assurance (SQA) inspections.
Inspection also undertake unplanned internal enquiries and reviews including IMRs for Child safeguarding Practice Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews. Working within a team of four Inspectors, under the direction of the Head of Inspection and Internal Audit the Inspector will:
· Undertake a programme of thematic inspections and quality reviews across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
· Undertake service inspections: review case files, speak to practitioners, managers, service users and partner agencies and make judgements about inspection findings.
· Write inspection reports.
· Present inspection findings.
· Contribute to inspection practice development and help to shape new inspection methodologies .
About You
To be successful in the Inspector role you will have:
· Excellent knowledge and experience of safeguarding and child protection
· Experience of driving improvements and a desire to promote best practice
· Leadership and senior management experience
· The ability to make sound, evidence based judgements
· Excellent verbal and written skills
· The ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels
In Return
This is a real opportunity to make a difference to children’s lives, but the charity also like to reward people by offering a great working environment, being part of a friendly and supportive team, and offering stimulating and challenging work, with plenty of development opportunities. You can access a variety of rewards and benefits including: generous annual leave, employee benefits and assistance programme, pension and life assurance schemes.
Join the team and you’ll become part of an organisation that cares about the work they do and the people they work with. You’ll discover opportunities to grow, along with challenges and a shared purpose that’ll bring the best out in you. And you’ll get to find your own way to make a difference that matters, and that impacts millions of young lives!
Other roles you may have experience of could include: Inspector, Internal Audit, Audit, Risk, Audit and Risk, Safeguarding, SQA, Service Quality Assurance, Child Safeguarding Practice Review, Child Safeguarding, Domestic Homicide, Internal Audit, Internal Auditor, Inspection.
About Us:
The National Lottery Community Fund is the largest community funder in the UK - we’re proud to award money raised by players of The National Lottery to communities across the UK. Last year alone we gave out over half a billion pounds (£508.5 million) of National Lottery funding to over 11,000 community projects across the UK, enabling even more people and communities to bring their ideas and ambitions to life. We support a wide range of health, educational, environmental, and charitable projects with grants ranging from as little as £500 to multi-million-pound programmes. 86% of our new grants were for less than £10k.
At the heart of everything we do is the belief that when people are in the lead, communities thrive. National Lottery funding is open to everyone and we’re privileged to be able to work with the smallest of grassroots groups right up to large UK-wide charities. We have changed how we work across the Fund to help us serve people and communities more effectively, working flexibly and on their terms; working closer to communities.
About the Role:
In this role you will develop into a key support person for the procurement team through learning sound administrative practices and procurement systems upkeep and use. Your development will lead to supporting the team administratively including contracts, tenders and any other documents used in the procurement process are retained in a manner compliant with internal document retention policies, Government and internal/external audit requirements.
An essential element of the role will be to liaise with internal colleagues, external customers and organisations as may be necessary. Learning and influencing best practice procurement skills and approaches will develop your expertise and experience as a procurement professional.
Your progression in the role will lead to providing appropriate procurement advice and guidance to internal colleagues, shared service clients and key stakeholders and acting as the first line of contact for the team is central to your role.
Of course, you’ll also need to work within the Fund’s policies and procedures and the necessary legislation, and in a way that is in line with our vision and principles. This will also develop your public sector procurement regulations knowledge as a result. If the role is based in Wales, or supports customers or colleagues in Wales, an understanding of Welsh language legislation and the Welsh Language Standards of the Fund is required.
Contract Type: 2-year fixed term contract
Hours: 37 Hours per week, flexible working considered
Interview Date: September/October first stage interview dates
Essential Criteria:
- including Level 4 CIPS qualification and have a positive attitude towards learning and self-development during the day to day requirements of the role
- Be able to acquire the broad range of skills, knowledge and understanding required in the Apprenticeship
- Shows initiative and an appetite to work in the Procurement profession with a commercial mindset
Desirable Criteria:
- Be willing to adapt to different work roles within the Procurement team
- Be willing to communicate with a variety of people and work with others
- Numeracy and literacy skills, Information and communication technology skills
- Have an appetite to problem solving and logical thinking to improve processes and find solutions to commercial challenges
- Be prepared to travel to other TNLCF offices, supplier sites, or network events as appropriately required to deliver particular tasks
For You:
We seek to develop our staff and offer a wide range of personal development opportunities.
We offer a wide range of generous benefits including:
- Generous annual leave and company pension scheme
- Flexible working to support staff with their work/life balance, taking into account things such as caring responsibilities, worship and attendance at religious festivals
- Enhanced paid maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Season ticket and cycle to work loans
- Paid volunteering leave
How to Apply:
Visit our website The National Lottery Community Fund's jobs page for further information on how to apply.
Equal Opportunities:
Equality, diversity and inclusion in our grant-making, and amongst our people, are all vital to our success in supporting people and communities to thrive. We believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. We are committed to being an inclusive and great place to work, and recognise our people come from diverse backgrounds. We are a Disability Confident employer and positively welcome applications from disabled people.