Children's Services Improvement & Readiness Lead

Kirklees Metropolitan Council; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham City Council in Nottingham is seeking an experienced Inspection and Improvement Team Manager to drive continuous improvement across Children’s Services and ensure high-quality, child-centred practice. You will lead improvement activity, coordinate inspection readiness and embed learning from audits and inspections to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

We are looking for a manager with strong safeguarding, performance management and QA experience, plus excellent

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in children's social care or comparable public sector setting.
• Strong safeguarding, performance management and QA experience.
• Ability to interpret data and drive improvement across complex services.
• Experience coordinating inspections and quality assurance processes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and monitoring of improvement activity for services.
• Coordinate inspection readiness and audit learning.
• Provide leadership to operational managers and practitioners.
• Promote accountability and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Analyse performance data to identify development priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Performance management

Quality assurance

Data analysis

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Nottingham City Council in Nottingham is seeking an experienced Inspection and Improvement Team Manager to drive continuous improvement across Children’s Services and ensure high-quality, child-centred practice. You will lead improvement activity, coordinate inspection readiness and embed learning from audits and inspections to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

We are looking for a manager with strong safeguarding, performance management and QA experience, plus excellent