Safeguarding Manager, Quality Assurance & Performance Team

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Safeguarding Manager within the Quality Assurance & Performance Team to work full time based in Milton Keynes.

The salary for this permanent Safeguarding Manager job is up to £65,491 per annum.

Main duties:

• Ensuring high quality social work and targeted intervention practice that engages with children and families in persistent and non-judgemental way, setting high expectations and support and challenge all relevant staff.
• Ensuring consistency in the delivery of services including the commissioned interventions enabling those children and young people who face barriers to participation to successfully overcome them.
• Taking responsibility (within the council scheme of delegation) for the range of complex emergency and planned independent decision making required to ensure the safety of children and young people.
• Providing high quality management ensuring the very highest professional practice.
• Ensuring that quality, efficacy and the value for money of services are evaluated and continuously improved.
• Providing expertise in relation to children safeguarding and effective management of statutory safeguarding functions.
• Contributing to the training and development of Milton Keynes City Council children’s social work and targeted intervention workforce.
• Ensuring high professional practice.
• Maintaining robust monitoring and risk assessment systems.
• Supporting the Head of Safeguarding and Quality Assurance and others to judge the impact of interventions, including the design and conduct of a rigorous Quality Assurance Programme, and contribute to appropriate adjustments to future provision.
• Providing high quality reports.
• Working with senior managers in partner agencies to ensure effective delivery of a range of integrated services.

Requirements of this Safeguarding Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Safeguarding Manager job is advertised by Lucy Pearson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.