Head of Service QA, Partnerships & Safeguarding

6 Month Contract | Immediate Start Available
Day Rate: £550-£600 per day
Inside IR35 (via Umbrella)
Hybrid Working | 3 Days On-Site Per Week

 

Are you a senior safeguarding leader looking for your next challenge? This is an exciting opportunity to step into a highly visible leadership role where you will influence strategic decision-making, drive service improvement, and ensure the highest standards of safeguarding practice across Children's Services. Reporting into senior leadership, you will play a key role in shaping quality assurance frameworks, strengthening partnerships, and delivering improved outcomes for children, young people and families. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy leading change, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

 

• Provide expert strategic advice on safeguarding legislation, national policy, inspection frameworks and regulatory expectations
• Lead and develop robust Quality Assurance processes that drive excellence in practice and performance
• Drive continuous service improvement, ensuring positive outcomes for children, young people and families
• Build and maintain effective multi-agency partnerships to strengthen safeguarding arrangements and collaborative working
• Champion a culture of learning, accountability and inspection readiness across Children's Services

 

• Significant leadership experience within Children's Services, Safeguarding, Quality Assurance or Improvement Services
• Strong knowledge of current safeguarding legislation, policy, regulatory frameworks and best practice standards
• Experience advising senior leaders, elected members, boards and key stakeholders on complex safeguarding matters
• Proven track record of improving performance, enhancing service quality and delivering successful inspection outcomes
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across complex partnership environments

 

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced professional to make a tangible impact at a strategic level while leading improvement and safeguarding excellence. The successful candidate will be joining at a crucial time and will have the opportunity to influence both practice and outcomes across services.

 

If you're interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact Melanie Machin on 0117 3137110 or apply today.

(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact.)

 

Our clients are passionate about creating and evolving a diverse workforce and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant. Recruiting decisions are based on experience and skills, and any reasonable adjustments required throughout the recruitment process will be fully supported.