Head Of Service

Immediate Start Available\n\nHybrid - Head of Service - Redbridge Council\n\nSalary: £400 Per Day\nHours: 37 Hours\nWorking Schedule: Monday to Friday\nContract Length: 3 Month Contract\nLocation: Lynton House, (Apply online only) High Road, Ilford, Greater London, IG1 1NY\n\nJob Details\n\nThe role will provide professional support, advice and supervision to frontline practitioners. This will involve responsibility for providing leadership in the management of risk in complex safeguarding situations.\n\nThis will ensure that all cases are managed in line with the council’s statutory duties and that a quality service is delivered to adults and their families.\n\nTo assess the quality and effectiveness of local authority planning and support for adults and Carers.\n\nTo provide system leadership to ensure the local authority discharges its statutory adult social care and carers’ responsibilities lawfully and effectively, embedding the wellbeing principle across all care and support functions, to ensure that adults and carers experience safe, timely, person‑centred support that delivers improved outcomes.\n\nTo provide oversight and strategic vision across adult social care in leading the Council’s governance, assurance, and partnership arrangements to safeguard adults with care and support needs who are at risk of abuse or harm, and cascade professional development and training opportunities across the workforce.\n\nDelivering the Principal Social Worker remit through professional leadership, practice development, and a robust quality assurance framework that drives learning, strengthens supervision and decision‑making, and improves outcomes for residents and carers.\n\nTo ensure Social Work practice is in line with statutory legal frameworks, policies and guidance, to meet legislative and organisational standards.\n\nProvide support and guidance to newly qualified, experienced and student social workers, collaborating with Workforce Development colleagues to strengthen multi-agency safeguarding training, practice learning and coaching across Redbridge Council’s Adult Social Care workforce.\n\nTo act as the senior professional lead for social work within the Senior Management Team, ensuring the voice and experience of frontline practitioners informs decision‑making with managers and partners at all levels.\n\nRepresent Redbridge Council on all boards relating to Quality Assurance and PSW matters, chairing meetings locally as requested, representing Redbridge Council at regional and national peer support networks and lead on Social Work practice issues.\n\nRepresent the Social Care workforce, highlighting emerging themes, issues and challenges relating to practice at leadership meetings and other senior meetings as appropriate.\n\nTo provide support to the functions of the Redbridge Safeguarding Adults Board (RSAB) and Strategic Lead for Safeguarding and Professional Practice in the following areas (but not exhaustive to):\n\nSelf-Neglect and Hoarding Protocols planning and review\n\nRedbridge ‘One Panel’ in respect of Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR)\n\nCommunity MARAC