Safeguarding Children Partnership Service Manager

Nottingham City Council; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Nottingham City Council is recruiting a visionary leader to head the Safeguarding and Children’s Partnership Service, strengthening safeguarding practice and ensuring the voice of children stays at the heart of what we do.

You will lead cross-agency collaboration, shape safeguarding policy, and drive continuous improvement to deliver better outcomes for children and families in Nottingham.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in strategic safeguarding leadership within the children's safeguarding system.
• Experience coordinating multi-agency partnerships with senior leaders.
• Experience developing and overseeing safeguarding policies and QA arrangements.
• Strong ability to translate safeguarding learning into service improvements.
• Excellent communication and report-writing skills for senior forums.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Safeguarding and Children’s Partnership Service to strengthen practice.
• Build partnerships across organisations to improve safeguarding outcomes.
• Ensure the voice and experience of children remains central to services.
• Develop and oversee safeguarding policies, procedures and quality assurance.
• Drive continuous improvement across organisational boundaries.

Skills

Strategic safeguarding leadership

Multi-agency collaboration

Policy development

Communication & report-writing

Partnership engagement

Analytical thinking

Change management

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is £58,602 (Level one) rising to £62,109 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead our Safeguarding and Children’s Partnership Service, helping us to strengthen practice and make a real difference to children and families. We are looking for an inspirational, collaborative leader who can build strong partnerships, support high-quality safeguarding practice and ensure the voice and experience of children remains at the heart of what we do.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience of strategic safeguarding leadership, with a strong understanding of statutory safeguarding responsibilities and the wider children’s safeguarding system.
• Substantial experience of multi-agency and partnership working, with the confidence and credibility to influence, challenge and build effective relationships with senior leaders across organisations.
• A strong understanding of child safeguarding practice reviews, rapid reviews, quality assurance and learning from practice, and the ability to translate learning into service improvement.
• Experience of developing and overseeing safeguarding policies, procedures, performance and quality assurance arrangements.
• Strong analytical, communication and report-writing skills, with the ability to present complex safeguarding information clearly to senior partnership forums.
• The ability to provide visible, collaborative leadership, manage competing priorities and drive continuous improvement across organisational boundaries.
• A clear commitment to keeping children and young people at the heart of safeguarding arrangements and improving outcomes for children across Nottingham.

This post is covered by the statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) (English Language Requirement for public sector workers) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English, is an essential requirement for the role.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

You can find the job description for this post here.

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiriesplease contact Sarah Wright by email at [e-mail]

Closing Date: 26th November 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: TBC

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