Job Description
6 months contract with a Local Authority
Job Summary:
• Lead and continuously improve a group of teams within the Adolescent Safeguarding and Well-Being Service.
• Drive high-quality children’s social care services focused on safeguarding and supporting children and young people at risk of harm, vulnerability, and exploitation.
• Provide strategic leadership, manage resources, ensure compliance with statutory requirements, and promote effective multi-agency collaboration to improve outcomes for children and young people.
Key Duties/Accountabilities (Sample):
• Lead, motivate, and manage front-line managers and their teams to deliver effective and high-quality services for children and young people.
• Promote child-centred outcome-focused practices and challenge professional and managerial performance constructively.
• Oversee service delivery, quality assurance, and performance monitoring, ensuring efficient use of resources.
• Take responsibility for recruitment, staff conduct, performance management, and professional development.
• Make critical professional decisions regarding case management and resource allocation.
• Chair multi-agency partnership panels addressing the needs of vulnerable children and young people.
• Provide regular performance reports and briefings to senior management and elected officials.
• Ensure compliance with inspection and audit requirements, supporting external reviews.
• Manage budgets, staffing, and IT/information resources to deliver effective social care services.
• Maintain strong partnerships with policing, health, education, and community organisations.
• Promote health, safety, equality, and anti-discriminatory policies across all service areas.
• Provide out-of-hours telephone contact as required for urgent matters.
Skills/Experience:
• Proven leadership experience managing teams within children’s social care, ideally in urban, culturally diverse settings.
• Demonstrable experience in quality assurance, audit, and performance improvement.
• Strong knowledge of child protection legislation, safeguarding protocols, and relevant statutory guidance (e.g., Children’s Act 1989, Working Together 2023).
• Skilled in multi-agency working and partnership building with external organisations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to influence at all levels.
• Competent in budget and resource management.
• Ability to make autonomous, professional decisions with sound judgement.
• Commitment to promoting user and family engagement in service design and delivery.
• Flexibility to work occasional evenings, weekends, and out-of-hours as needed.
Additional Information:
• The closing date: 13/10/2025 @17:00.
• Registered Social Worker with recognised professional body (e.g., Social Work England).
Requirements
• Proven leadership experience managing teams within children’s social care, ideally in urban, culturally diverse settings. • Demonstrable experience in quality assurance, audit, and performance improvement. • Strong knowledge of child protection legislation, safeguarding protocols, and relevant statutory guidance (e.g., Children’s Act 1989, Working Together 2023). • Skilled in multi-agency working and partnership building with external organisations. • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to influence at all levels. • Competent in budget and resource management. • Ability to make autonomous, professional decisions with sound judgement. • Commitment to promoting user and family engagement in service design and delivery. • Flexibility to work occasional evenings, weekends, and out-of-hours as needed.