The Role

Would you welcome the opportunity to shape multi-agency safeguarding children practice in Kingston and Richmond?

Strong networking and communication skills?

Want to influence local practitioners for good, and improve children’s wellbeing and safety?

Then apply to be the KRSCP (Kingston & Richmond Safeguarding Children Partnership) Manager on an interim 6 month contract or secondment basis and find out if this role is for you! 

Do you have experience of safeguarding children work? Then come and manage a friendly, small team with a large reach to develop your strategic safeguarding career.

KRSCP is hosted by Richmond Council and funded by local partners -it’s a strong player across London. Develop local learning, respond to serious incidents and find innovative ways to measure and improve our local performance.

The Kingston and Richmond Safeguarding Children Partnership (KRSCP) is responsible for ensuring that everyone in Kingston and Richmond works together to safeguard children and young people in line with the principles set out in Working Together.

 The support team is responsible for the delivery of the priorities set out in the KRSCP business plan. It is the role of the team to support the statutory safeguarding partners and wider partnership in fulfilling their duties to promote effective joint working to safeguard children in Kingston and Richmond.

You will be:

Educated to degree level with relevant qualification or management experience in either health, education, social care or criminal justice, and evidence of continuing professional development.

You will have:

• Excellent understanding of safeguarding legislation related to children;
• Excellent knowledge of effective multi-agency safeguarding practice related to children;
• Skills in developing and sustaining strong multi-agency partnerships; and
• Experience in all aspects of people management.

36 hours per week but opportunities to work flexibly and agile

At Richmond and Wandsworth Councils, we care more about how you work and what you achieve, rather than where you work on any given day. The difference you can make to our local communities is what really matters most to us, service delivery must always come first. We have carefully considered agile ways of working to provide the best experience for residents, stakeholders and our staff. Our agile working strategy actively supports and encourages a dynamic work environment and daily working experience. Agile working helps put the needs of our staff at the centre of everything we do, so if specific flexible working arrangements helps you with this, feel free to let us know.

Your wellbeing and the flexible way in which you can work is and will remain a key priority for Richmond and Wandsworth Councils. We want you to thrive and feel empowered in your work!

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working including, working from home, compressed or part-time hours, term time only, job shares and other arrangements. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process (and beyond) if these are options you’d like to explore. We also offer a generous holiday allowance of 39 paid days (pro rata) including bank holidays and a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of staff benefits such as membership of the Local Government pension scheme, childcare vouchers, new technology scheme, interest-free loans on annual travel cards, discounts with many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments.

Indicative Recruitment Timeline

Closing Date:  3rd^th April 2022

Shortlisting Date: WC 4^th April 2022

Interview Date: (TBC)

Useful Information:

Please note this application process is anonymised

The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. We strongly advise you to complete your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Please note that the advertised dates for interviews may change due to the current Covid-19 situation. If they do, we will let you know as soon as possible.

Your health and wellbeing is our top priority. Should you become unwell due to Covid-19 during the recruitment process we would very much appreciate receiving an update from you as soon as possible.

We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our teams.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Secondment Policy

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying.  Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised.

Important Information:

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils