Head of Service for Safeguarding and Quality Assurance

Overview

A carefully rated Kent-based Local Authority is looking for a Head of Service for their Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service. This is a permanent position with a salary up to £91,500.

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a permanent senior management team, responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight, ensuring that practice and values deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
• As a strategic leader, you will 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.
• Hybrid working is embraced, but you will travel regularly to the authority's offices in Chatham, Kent.

Qualifications

• Qualified and registered Social Worker with a proven track record of successfully managing children social care services.
• Excellent leadership skills and a proven record of improving and transforming services.
• Experience working with a 'Signs of Safety' or similar strengths and relationships based practice framework is desirable.

Benefits

Permanent role with a salary of £91,500 inclusive of out of hours, special skills payment and market forces payment. Hybrid working is embraced.

Contact

Please apply through the website or contact Tom McKenna at or email for further details.