Senior Manager – EmPower Contextual Safeguarding

Overview

Senior leadership role shaping child-first, trauma-informed practice across Lancashire. You will provide strategic and operational direction for specialist teams, drive performance and continuous improvement, and manage safeguarding, risk, and budgets. You’ll lead multi-agency partnership work to give children and young people a voice in how services are delivered. The role offers impact on youth justice across the region and opportunities to influence workforce development and service design. You’ll work with senior partners to transform futures for children and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across specialist teams
• Drive performance, quality, and continuous improvement
• Oversee safeguarding, risk management, and budget/resource management
• Lead partnership working with professionals and agencies
• Influence the future of youth justice across Lancashire
• Support workforce development and practice improvement
• Ensure child voices and family perspectives shape services

Key requirements

• Minimum four years’ management or leadership experience within children’s social care
• Professionally qualified and registered Social Worker (Social Work England)
• Must meet Social Work England professional standards
• Management qualification or significant management training

• strong relationship-building across organisational boundaries
• change management and leading through transformation
• decisiveness in complex risk situations
• risk management
• safeguarding governance
• performance management and reporting

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