Service Lead (Systemic & Workforce), Children's Services

Location Wandsworth
Job type Permanent
Salary £66,318 - 80,874 per year
Consultant Alex Moon
Call +447458161360
Reference 215739

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Lead (Systemic & Workforce) within the Children’s Service to work full time based in Wandsworth.

The salary for this permanent Service Lead job is up to £80,874 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To provide leadership for the service based on a clear vision for the service, clarify of standards and outcomes to be achieved.
  • To have responsibility for development, planning and delivery of a systemic service and the embedding of systemic ideas and practices into all aspects of Children’s Social Care.
  • To work closely with the Quality Assurance Service Lead, to close the loop between quality assurance and practice improvement.
  • To ensure that services are rigorously evaluated in terms of quality and outcomes and that they continuously improve and are provided in response to children’s and young people’s neds.
  • To coordinate workforce development activities, including workforce recruitment and retention.
  • To ensure the service meets both national and local performance and quality indicators in an effective and timely way.
  • To monitor the safeguarding responsibilities, performance, and training of staff.
  • To undertake training including child protection training and constructively take part in meetings, supervision, seminars, and other events designated to improve communication and assist with the effective development of the post and post holder.
  • To plan and manage programmes of change and projects designed to improve service outcomes.
  • To promote quality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the quality and diversity protocol/policy and working to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected.
  • The profile is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the duties the post holder will carry out. Other reasonable duties commensurate with the level of the post, including supporting emergency and priority situations, will form part of the role.

Requirements of this Service Lead role:

  • A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
  • Understanding of relevant legislation.
  • Registered or eligible for registration.
  • Have a good working knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Service Lead job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.