Board role: Non-Executive Director
Salary or salary range: £350 per day
Contract type: Other
Location of position: United Kingdom
Application deadline: 1pm on 3 January 2025
Job description
As our sponsor department, the Department for Education lead on non-executive public appointments to our Board in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.
We are looking to appoint three non-executive directors across a range of skills, including finance and commercial; data management and analytics and digital strategy; professional education experience (including continuing education) as well as those with national and non-executive director experience.
Among these three, we are looking to appoint a non-executive director with specific responsibility as Chair of the Board’s Audit and Risk Assurance Committee (ARAC).
Up to 25 days per year (+5 additional days for ARAC Chair)
There is a degree of flexibility around start dates, but we expect successful candidates to take up their positions in either April or May 2025.
About Social Work England:
The work social workers deliver for adults, children, and families is essential and deserves to be recognised and supported. Social Work England works closely with both the Department for Education and the Department for Health and Social Care. It is central to many of government’s wider social work reform plans and its ambitions to secure a highly capable and highly skilled workforce.
Social Work England was established under the Children and Social Work Act 2017 to be a new single-profession regulator for all child, family and adult social workers in England. It took over regulatory responsibilities from the Health and Care Professions Council and began regulating social workers on 2 December 2019.
Based in Sheffield, Social Work England employs around 230 staff and has an operating budget in the region of £20 million, with costs met through a combination of income from registrant fees and funding from government.
Social Work England is a separate legal entity in the form of a non-departmental public body, operating at arm’s length from government. The Department for Education is its sponsor department.
It is responsible for delivering key regulatory functions in respect of social workers, including:
- setting professional standards for all social workers in England
- maintaining a register of all social workers in England
- running a fitness to practise system
- setting standards for education and training
- inspecting providers of initial social work education and training
As with other health and care regulators, Social Work England’s overarching objective is to protect the public. Its values are to be fearless, independent, transparent, ambitious, collaborative, and to act with integrity.
Social Work England is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. Its equality, diversity and inclusion action plan reflects its approach to equality, diversity and inclusion as part of its core business and demonstrates principles synonymous with being a social worker.
Social Work England is overseen by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). The PSA publishes an annual report on the performance on each of the regulators it oversees and challenges decisions about the fitness to practise of health and care professionals if they believe that they are insufficient to protect the public.
How to apply
Full details and how to apply can be found on the Public Appointment website on Gov.uk: