Director of Early Help and Safeguarding
Director of Early Help and Safeguarding
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Director of Early Help and Safeguarding
Grade SMRE: 114303 - 131880pa
About us
Ourambition is for Newham to be a place where every child and young person enjoys the best possible opportunities in life through outstanding education; first-rate youth services; exceptional family support and social care services that ensure no child is left behind.
Newham is a unique place. The youngest and most diverse borough in London with almost a quarter of residents aged under-18 and more than 100 languages spoken it is an exciting and challenging place to work with children. Despite its extraordinary potential this is a borough that experiences huge socio-economic challenges deprivation and unemployment; with more than half of children living in poverty and stark inequalities.
About the role
Our new Director will lead our good performing early help and childrens social care service with accountability for Family Help Child Protection and Care Experienced children and young people. We are looking for a Director to provide inspirational relational leadership oversee our successful social work workforce recruitment and retention strategy and continue to innovate and explore best practice in all that we do implementing the Social Care Reforms. We need a leader who will passionately and ambitiously work to improve outcomes for all children and young people in Newham and be an agent of change. Tackling racism inequality and discrimination and striving for equity and fairness should be at the forefront of your leadership.
A genuine collaborator and a strong partner you will help us deliver against our ambitious agenda to ensure Newhams workforce and children and young people thrive.
Our Circles of Support Framework of Practice has been instrumental in advancing our partnership approach to working with families and providing them with every opportunity to access support that reduces harm and make positive change. With a strong focus on driving high quality consistent practice standards you will lead the service to deliver even better outcomes for children and young people and to be the best they can be.
In addition a detailed understanding and awareness of the government agendas in respect of childrens social care and safeguarding services and the ability to translate them into local practice is essential.
About you
Our expectations of the ideal candidate are that you will be an experienced leader oftransformational change with a track record of leadingand developing Childrens Safeguarding services together with a desire to make us an employer of choice where social work can flourish. We want our social workers to be able to work imaginatively whilst also continuing to grow adapt and innovate as well as maintaining our commitment to robust quality do that we are seeking someone who can inspire confidence innovate tackle inequalities and has a collaborative inclusive style that pushes boundaries in our pursuit of excellence.
If you are interested in this role and would like an informal discussion with our Corporate Director of Children and Young Peoples Services please contact Laura Eden on or
The closing date is Monday 4th August 2025
To apply please submit your CV and supporting statement in no more than x2 A4 sides explaining your suitability and how you meet the criteria for the role as set out in the Job Description and Person Specification.
To view the job description and person specification please clickhere
Additional Information
We are committed to creating an inclusive anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age disability ethnicity faith gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values and you bring the experience and skills we need thats all that matters to us.
The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud other unlawful or dishonest conduct malpractice and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights can be found by Experience:
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