Head of Service for Safeguarding and Quality Assurance
A recently 'good' rated, Kent-based Local Authority is looking for a Head of Service for their SAFEGUARDING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICE.
Salary up to £91,500 - PERMANENT POSITION
You will be part of a permanent senior management team.
You will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight, and ensuring practice and values deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- As a strategic leader you will be expected to contribute to the operational management and development of the wider service, working closely with the Assistant Director and other Heads of Service for Children's Services.
- As a qualified and registered Social Worker, with a proven track record of successfully managing children social care services, you will have excellent leadership skills and a proven record of successfully improving and transforming services.
Ideally you will also have experience of working with ‘Signs of Safety' or a similar strengths and relationships based practice framework.
PERMANENT ROLE - £91,500 (INCLUSIVE OF OUT OF HOURS, SPECIAL SKILLS PAYMENT, AND MARKET FORCES PAYMENT)
Hybrid working embraced, however travel regularly to the authority's offices in Chatham, Kent.
Please follow the instructions on this website, or alternatively contact Tom McKenna on 07587 031100 or email tmckenna@charecruitment.com for further details and please do be sure to leave your contact details
- Start: ASAP
- Rate: £55607 - £63607 per annum + £3,000 annual payment
- Location: Kent, England
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Other
- Recruiter: Charles Hunter Associates
- Contact: Tom McKenna
- Tel: 0118 948 5555
- Email: to view click here
- Posted: 2025-10-24 17:01:27 -
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