Service Manager - Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership

Service Manager
Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership
£55,399 – £69,947 per annum
Permanent
Full Time (36 hours)
Wandsworth, London
Ofsted Rating: ‘Good’

Are you a strategic leader with relational and organisational skills and would like to have the opportunity to help support and deliver the business management of our Safeguarding Children’s Partnership?

Wandsworth Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) is jointly led by the Police, Integrated Care Board and Wandsworth Council. WSCP is responsible for protecting children and young people in Wandsworth from harm, abuse, neglect and exploitation, and promoting their welfare.

About the role

As a Service Manager, your role will be to support Safeguarding Partners and Relevant Agencies in coordinating their safeguarding services; acting as a leader in supporting and engaging others; coordinating the partnership response to serious child safeguarding incidents and implementing local and national learning from Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews as defined in Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023.

You will be responsible for ensuring that the Safeguarding Partnership meets its statutory duties and will manage the business unit directing their work for the smooth running of all partnership activities. This will include attending relevant regional and national groups to promote and develop the work of the partnership.

Day to day you will oversee and manage the strategic and operational delivery of the Children’s Safeguarding Partnership, its Executive and its subgroups. This involves working alongside the partnership executive group and chair, scrutineers and key strategic safeguarding leads and chairs of the subgroups.

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Degree or equivalent level professional qualification (e.g. Social Care, Education, Health or Police), or able to demonstrate this specialist knowledge through extended experience and training.
• Extensive experience of effective partnership working and setting and delivering clear priorities.
• Understanding of key legislation and statutory guidance pertaining to children’s safeguarding.
• Budget management, excellent organisation and project management skills.
• Ability to communicate and engage with frontline staff, community members, strategic leaders, elected members and members of the public.
• Ability to use data and feedback to drive improvements with proven report writing skills.

If you meet the above criteria and would like the opportunity to play a central role in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of children in Wandsworth, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Louise Jones, Assistant Director Practice Standards by email at Louise.Jones@RichmondandWandsworth.gov.uk

Closing Date: Sunday 9th March 2025
Shortlisting Date: Week commencing 10th March 2025
Interview Date: Week commencing 17th March 2025

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.