Head of Service

3 days ago


Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom Hull City Council Full time

Reference

HUL/25/0293

**Full Time Equivalent Salary (based on a 37 hour working week)**

£71984 - £71984

Occupational group

Care/Social Work - Children's

Job term

Full Time

Appointment type

Permanent

Hours

37

Division

Children and Family Services - Directorate

Closing Date

19 June 2025

Proposed Shortlisting Date

23 June 2025

Proposed Interview Date

03 July 2025

Place of work

Kenworthy House, Hull HU1 3DT

For an informal discussion please contact

Rachel Donnachie

Contact telephone

01482 616 345

At Hull City Council we are committed to our children and young people, and we are passionate about how we deliver services to them. That’s why we are developing and nurturing a culture that puts our children and young people at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our workforce to work together to find solutions, to be open, honest and respectful, to take responsibility and listen and learn from others.

If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you. Hull continues to be a changing local authority and it’s a fantastic time to join us and be a key player in supporting our continuous improvement journey. We are proud that our services for children continue to go from strength to strength and we are proud that we have achieved teams of permanent social workers and managers across all safeguarding areas. Our social workers and managers value the embedded learning and support offer provided by our Social Work Academy and we continue to commit to ‘growing our own’ through a range of learning and progression based opportunities.

The Head of Service for Locality based Safeguarding Teams will be responsible for two of our three locality based social work teams providing high quality support to those children who need social work involvement in their lives.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a well-established and stable team of senior leaders within our Safeguarding Service.

Why it's great to work for Hull City Council:

- A competitive salary of £71,984
- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension scheme (LGPS)
- Up to 33 days annual leave depending on length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year, and three additional days off
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training and learning methods
- Supportive and forward thinking culture

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We are committed to increasing the diversity, equality, and inclusion within our workforce to represent the people we serve and build an environment in which everyone can feel like they belong. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.

We reserve the right to amend the dates associated with this advert, which may include closing the advert early where required.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.



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