Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | £62,526 to £69,768 per annum (Scale N) | Norwich
Head of Independent Safeguarding and Reviewing Services – Independent Services, Assurance and Practice
Would you like to be part of a team that is driving forward high-quality practice to ensure excellent outcomes for children and young people in Norfolk?
We are currently looking to recruit a Head of Independent Safeguarding and Reviewing Services who will become a member of the management team within Independent Services, Assurance & Practice.
You will be required to lead Independent Safeguarding and Reviewing Services to deliver effective challenge and scrutiny across the children’s safeguarding system, in line with legislative and statutory requirements.
As Head of Independent Safeguarding and Reviewing Services you will provide leadership to Independent Reviewing Officers and Child Protection Chairs, who ensure that children and young people who are Looked After or in Need of Protection are appropriately safeguarded and have quality care planning and have their views considered.
The role is also responsible for the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) functions, ensuring systems are in place across the Children’s workforce (including NCC and all partner agencies) to review and ensure children are safeguarded by the staff working with them, and providing a leadership role for investigations where staff have harmed children.
As a registered Social Worker with significant post-qualification management experience, you will provide line management, operational direction, and leadership to Service Managers who manage the staff responsible for the delivery of Independent Statutory Services as well as line managing the Local Authority Designated Officers.
Should you wish to have an informal discussion about the role please email tania.fulcher@norfolk.gov.uk
Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specification to help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.
These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:
* Competitive salary
* Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
* Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
* Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working – dependent on your job role and business need.
* Financial benefits such as:
o ‘Norfolk Rewards’ our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
o A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
o Relocation expenses (where applicable)
o An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
o Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants’ pensions.
o A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.
Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.
Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 25 September 2024
Closing date: 03 October 2024
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