Service manager

Service Manager – Family Safeguarding Location: Reigate, Surrey – Hybrid Working Rate: 500 per day Contract: Interim We are looking for an experienced and influential Service Manager to provide senior leadership across Family Safeguarding and Children's Social Care. This is an excellent opportunity for an established senior leader who can bring strong operational grip, lead improvement and use performance intelligence to drive better outcomes for children and families. We are particularly interested in candidates who combine extensive Children's Social Care and safeguarding leadership experience with a strong understanding of performance improvement, quality assurance, business intelligence and assesments. The Role Working at a senior leadership level, you will provide strategic and operational direction across Family Safeguarding, ensuring services are safe, effective, performance–focused and centred around achieving positive outcomes for children and families. Key responsibilities will include: Providing strong strategic and operational leadership across Family Safeguarding and Children's Social Care servicesDriving service improvement and transformation, ensuring clear standards and expectations are embedded across the serviceUsing performance data, management information and business intelligence to identify trends, risks and areas requiring improvementStrengthening performance management and ensuring leaders have a clear grip on service deliveryOverseeing quality assurance, audits and performance measures, translating findings into tangible service improvementsProviding leadership and oversight to senior managers and operational teamsEnsuring effective management of safeguarding risk and consistently high standards of practiceManaging and monitoring budgets and resources, ensuring effective deployment and value for moneyBuilding effective partnerships across Children's Services and wider multi–agency partnersSupporting workforce development and creating a strong, accountable and improvement–focused cultureContributing to wider strategic priorities and continuous improvement across Children's Services About You We are looking for an accomplished senior Children's Social Care leader who can demonstrate: Significant senior leadership experience within Children's Social CarePrevious experience operating at Head of Service level, or substantial equivalent senior management experienceStrong experience within Family Safeguarding, Child Protection, Children in Need or closely related statutory servicesA proven track record of performance improvement and service improvementStrong understanding of business intelligence, performance data and management information, with the ability to turn insight into actionExperience of quality assurance, audits and improving practice standardsStrong operational grip and the ability to identify and respond to areas of risk or underperformanceExperience of managing significant budgets and resourcesStrong knowledge of statutory Children's Social Care and safeguarding practiceThe ability to lead and influence senior managers, practitioners and multi–agency partnersA confident, visible and collaborative leadership style focused on achieving sustainable improvements for children and families This role would suit an experienced Service Manager, Senior Service Manager or Senior Children's Social Care leader with a strong safeguarding background who enjoys combining operational leadership with performance, improvement and strategic development. Why consider this opportunity? This is an opportunity to take on a highly influential senior role where you can directly shape practice, performance and service delivery. You will have the scope to use your leadership experience to strengthen services, develop a culture of continuous improvement and ultimately improve outcomes for children and families. Please apply today to be considered for this position. Connect2Surrey is a trading style of Surrey & Kent Commercial Services LLP – A joint venture between Surrey County Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Surrey is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.