Head of Service – Corporate Parenting - Council

Role: Head of Service – Corporate Parenting REF 104404
Contract Length: Until 31/03/27
Location: Swindon
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £550 per day
Security Clearance: Standard DBS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Head of Service – Corporate Parenting for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE HEAD OF SERVICE – CORPORATE PARENTING

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for Corporate Parenting services, ensuring high-quality support for children in care, care experienced young people, families and carers.
• Lead service improvement across children in care, fostering, kinship care and permanence, delivering measurable improvements in practice, performance and outcomes.
• Ensure effective oversight of permanence, care planning, placement stability, pathway planning and transitions to adulthood.
• Promote a strong corporate parenting culture across the Council and ensure statutory responsibilities are met.
• Use performance data, audit, inspection findings and feedback from children, young people and carers to drive continuous improvement.
• Champion restorative, strengths-based and relationship-based practice.
• Lead workforce development to support confident, child-centred and evidence-informed practice.
• Ensure children’s voices and lived experience inform service development, decision making and quality assurance.
• Work closely with education, health, housing and other partners to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities.
• Contribute to the wider strategic leadership of Children’s Services, fulfil the role of Agency Decision Maker and lead significant resource management.

   

  SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE HEAD OF SERVICE – CORPORATE PARENTING

• Recognised social work qualification.
• Current Social Work England registration.
• Evidence of significant post-qualifying professional development relevant to statutory child and family social work, safeguarding leadership and service development.
• Management or leadership qualification, or equivalent senior leadership experience
• Significant senior management experience within statutory children’s social care.
• Strong knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance and policy relating to children we care for, care experineced young people, fostering and kinship care.
• Experience of leading corporate parenting services and managing complex risk, performance, quality and workforce pressures.

If you are a Head of Service – Corporate Parenting, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

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