Head of Independent Safeguarding and Reviewing Services (6891)

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Job Description

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 Specificationto 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:
  • '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.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

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

About Us

We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.