Safeguarding Children Partnership Service Manager
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About the role
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 enquiries please contact Sarah Wright by email at sarah.wright@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
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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Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.
In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:
- 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
- Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
- Smart Working – to support your work life balance
- Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!
Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair, inclusive and Disability Confident Employer, welcoming applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.
If you are a disabled candidate and wish to be considered under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this within your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and employment journey.
We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from serving personnel, veterans, reservists and military families.
We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the LGBTQ+ community, or are disabled. These groups are currently underrepresented in our workforce, and we are committed to better reflecting the communities we serve.
We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and encourage candidates to discuss this with us during the recruitment process.