Head of Service – Children’s Community Health
Suffolk | Endeavour House£45 per hour Umbrella12-Month ContractHybrid Working – 3 Days Office-Based
Caritas Recruitment is looking for an experienced Head of Service – Children’s Community Health to provide strategic and operational leadership across children’s health services, including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Family Nurse Partnership and wider 0-19 services.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for a registered health professional with significant experience leading children’s services, safeguarding, governance, quality improvement and service transformation. The successful candidate will hold overall responsibility for safe, effective and high-quality service delivery, safeguarding arrangements, workforce performance, regulatory compliance and financial management.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading Children’s Community Health Services and the Healthy Child Programme (0-19)
- Providing strategic leadership for safeguarding, quality and governance
- Acting as the organisation’s CQC Registered Manager
- Driving service transformation, improvement and innovation
- Managing complex budgets and multidisciplinary teams
- Building strong partnerships across health, local authority and safeguarding organisations
- Representing the service at commissioner, inspection and partnership forums
To be considered, you must be a registered health professional with substantial senior leadership experience within children’s services, public health, community health or integrated care services, alongside extensive safeguarding leadership experience.
Contract Details
- £45 per hour Umbrella
- 12-month contract
- Hybrid working
- 3 days per week based at Endeavour House
- Face-to-face interview preferred
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