Service Manager - LADO Safeguarding Education Advisory service and SEND QA Lead
Role Responsibility
Role Responsibility
Kent County Council is looking for two accomplished leaders (Service Manager and Principal Social Worker) to join our outstanding children Quality Assurance, Safeguarding and Professional Standards service. Working within the QA unit is fast paced and adaptive, the units’ priorities directly influenced by local and national contexts. The roles benefit from a supportive senior management team with a can-do attitude enabling creativity and innovation to flourish.
This role offers a unique chance to build a new service by leading, motivating and developing a large team combining education safeguarding and LADO services. You will have the opportunity to create a dynamic approach to providing quality assurance ensuring statutory duties of allegation management are met, whilst also offering commissioned training traded activities like consultation, and outreach support across the local safeguarding partnership and Kent communities.
To achieve this, you will utilise appropriate resources and budgets whilst contributing to and supporting effective inter-agency working, including the work of the Kent Safeguarding Children's Multi-Agency Partnership. You will have the lead in supporting Kent’s children and young people strengthening independence service ensuring professional practice standards and effective quality assurance mechanisms and systems are in place to achieve excellence and demonstrate a positive impact on outcomes for children and young people.
As part of the senior leadership team you will be working collaboratively with the other service managers and directors across children integrated services promoting the Kent Practice Framework, CYPE audit and developing emerging initiatives and legislation to practice.
The successful candidate will have good business acumen to meet financial targets on commissioned and traded activity. You will possess excellent verbal and written skills with strong interpersonal skills. The ability to hold multiple projects using excellent organisational, planning and management skills is critical to the role.
Other key attributes include substantial knowledge of the legislation and statutory responsibilities that underpin Children's Social Care, including appropriate performance indicators and quality standards.
Kent County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment is dependent on satisfactory and verifiable references.
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.
This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview the week beginning 23rd September 2024.
Contact Details
Leemya McKeown
Assistant Director - Safeguarding, Professional Standards & Quality Assurance
Leemya.McKeown@kent.gov.uk
03000 422190
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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.
Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.