Head of Service for Safeguarding and Quality Assurance
| Posting date: | 24 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,607 to £63,607 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £3,000 annual payment |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 November 2025 |
| Location: | Kent, ME1 2BL |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Charles Hunter Associates Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | TM15102025_1761321684 |
Summary
A recently 'good' rated, Kent-based Local Authority is looking for a Head of Service for their SAFEGUARDING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE SERVICE.
Salary up to £91,500 - PERMANENT POSITION
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You will be part of a permanent senior management team. You will be responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight, and ensuring practice and values deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- As a strategic leader you will be expected to contribute to the operational management and development of the wider service, working closely with the Assistant Director and other Heads of Service for Children's Services.
- As a qualified and registered Social Worker, with a proven track record of successfully managing children social care services, you will have excellent leadership skills and a proven record of successfully improving and transforming services. Ideally you will also have experience of working with 'Signs of Safety' or a similar strengths and relationships based practice framework.
PERMANENT ROLE - £91,500 (INCLUSIVE OF OUT OF HOURS, SPECIAL SKILLS PAYMENT, AND MARKET FORCES PAYMENT)
Hybrid working embraced, however travel regularly to the authority's offices in Chatham, Kent.
Please follow the instructions on this website, or alternatively contact Tom McKenna on 07587 031100 or email tmckenna@charecruitment.com for further details and please do be sure to leave your contact details
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