Job Title: Practice Development Lead
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £79,133.77 to £86,974.41
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post: No
Advert Closing Date: 21/06/2026
Job Overview
Do you have a passion for driving high-quality care and supporting professional growth in children’s residential services? We are seeking an experienced and inspirational Practice Development Lead to work alongside our children’s homes in Jersey.
In this influential role, you will work directly within and alongside our children’s homes, partnering with Registered Managers, residential childcare officers, children and young people, and their wider networks. Your focus will be on embedding relationship-based practice, strengthening care environments, and ensuring that day-to-day interactions consistently reflect the highest standards of care and support.
Drawing on your expertise, you will coach, mentor, and challenge practice in live settings—supporting managers and staff to reflect, develop, and sustain excellent practice. You will play a key role in workforce development, delivering training, facilitating reflective discussions, and embedding learning from research, best practice, and lived experience into residential care.
Working closely with the Standards and Quality Service, you will contribute to quality assurance activity, including audits, observations, and learning reviews, using insight to identify strengths and areas for development. You will help shape service improvement, strengthen practice consistency across homes, and ensure that the voices of children and young people are central to everything we do.
This role requires a confident and credible leader, able to influence at all levels, model excellent relationship-based care, and foster a culture of continuous learning, reflection, and improvement within residential settings.
If you are a passionate and accomplished social work professional, with substantial expertise in leading and managing children’s homes, and possess the credibility and leadership qualities to inspire change across our services, we want to hear from you. If you are devoted to nurturing the growth of others and are driven to make a meaningful difference to the lives of children and young people in our care, this is your invitation to take the next step and help us shape outstanding outcomes together.
For further information, or an informal discussion, please contact Sue Butterworth at s.butterworth@gov.je
Job Description
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Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
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