Head of Safeguarding

3 weeks ago


Barking Suffolk, United Kingdom Sanctuary Personnel Ltd Full time €85,390

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Permanent opportunity available for an experiencedHead of Safeguardingto join a well-establishedQuality Assurance & Improvement Team based in Barking & Dagenham.

Team/Specialism: Quality Assurance & Improvement Team

Salary: £85,390 per annum

Contract: Permanent

As the Head of Safeguarding, Quality Assurance and Improvement you will be a key member of the Adult Social Care Leadership Team for ensuring the effective operation of our safeguarding and care management systems for Adults. As the centre for driving the quality and impact of practice, you will be our eyes and ears, maintaining a watchful eye for emerging risks and issues – and setting in train the response to these.

Main duties:

  • Be accountable for shaping and leading a strategic framework for policy, service development, strategic safeguarding and quality assurance, providing expertise and advice to elected members, senior managers across the Directorate and the wider organisation.
  • Lead the implementation of the Quality Assurance Framework; drawing out all available learning from data, audit activity, internal case reviews and a range of other sources, to learn about the quality of practice and service delivery.
  • Lead improvements in outcomes for adults within Adult Social Care and the wider Safeguarding Partnership: ensuring that partners are supported, scrutinised, and challenged with regards to their safeguarding practice and to ensure the delivery of a cross phase safeguarding training offer.
  • Lead on the professional development of social workers, ensuring that staff recruitment and retention are effective and appropriate for students, social workers and social work managers to attract, develop and retain the workforce based on the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
  • Provide strategic leadership and management of policy & practice, directing the team across Adult Social Care to promote understanding and commitment to practice and quality assurance, in order to achieve the delivery of effective, person-centred and legally compliant services. Make a broad and sustained contribution to the achievement of the authority’s and departments aims and objectives.

Requirements of the Head of Safeguarding:

  • Degree or equivalent in social work
  • Current Social Work England registration
  • Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
  • Substantial experience of quality assurance of practice related to adult services, including safeguarding practice, and can demonstrate a positive impact via these quality assurance activities.
  • Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding under the care act 2014 and adults’ policy and practice, commensurate with the requirements of the role.
  • Experience of devising and undertaking complex service reviews covering all elements of quality and performance; including evaluation of assessment tools, the quality of supervision and the appropriateness of interventions.

Contact:

ThisHead of Safeguarding job is advertised by Stefan Garret; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from any experienced Social Work candidate with experience as a Newly Qualified, Social Worker, Practitioner, Assistant Team Manager, Team Manager, Head of Service or Director.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work applicants who meet these requirements for this Permanent Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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.

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