eden brown recruitment have an exciting new leadership opportunities in our new safeguarding service the team managers in our new safeguarding service will play a critical role in leading inspiring and motivating the councils newly created teams to deliver our vision and strategic priorities set out in kingstons improvement plan the new management team will provide vital leadership and support to enable kingston to deliver the improvements required by providing a high quality and responsive service that takes full advantage of modern technologies and ways of working the new structure reflects the substantial investment the council is making to ensure that kingstons children are safeguarded this includes ensuring that early help services and safeguarding services are closely linked to make sure that children receive the most appropriate services the team managers will make a major contribution to the delivery of our vision and strategic priorities managing a team of social care professionals strong management skills will be essential to succeed you will be passionate about providing a quality service and have experience of working as a manager in childrens social care delivering challenging objectives and continuous improvement you will have a clear vision and be able to demonstrate the ability to create a strong performance management culture resulting in the best outcomes for children team manager single point of access team the role of the spa team is to receive all initial information and contacts to childrens services the team screen all information received provide advice and signpost to other services for this role you will have experience managing a team or service with a complex caseload effective performance management people and organisational strong analytical and planning skills research methods modelling critical reflection and evidencedbased decision making you will work closely with the safeguarding service manager and will take operational responsibility to ensure the delivery of team objectives and ensuring targets are met building strong working relationships with all staff our partners and stakeholders is essential you must be hcpc registered for this role to apply please send your cv to becky at bdewisedenbrowncom today eden brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer eden brown ltd is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy