Head of Service for MASH and Family Intervention bei London Borough of Havering
London Borough of Havering · Romford, Vereinigtes Königreich · Onsite
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Head of Service for MASH and Family Intervention
London Borough of Havering
Contract: Permanent
Grade 12- £77,550 to £87,084 per annum (Market Supplement subject to final confirmation)
The London Borough of Havering is looking to recruit a Head of Service for MASH and Family Intervention to strategically lead and oversee the day-to-day service delivery of the integrated front door / multi-agency safeguarding hub (MASH) and the Family Intervention Service, ensuring the service functions runs smoothly and to a high professional standard in line with good practice and guidance. The post holder will lead and direct work/practice that positively improves outcomes for children, young people and their families in Havering.
If successful in your application for the role of Head of Service, London Borough of Havering, you will/will be:
Responsible for delivering effective, inclusive leadership and management of the services, ensuring high quality services against local and national indicators and targets.
Promote and govern excellent face-to-face practice across the service, ensuring purposeful work is undertaken with children, young people, and families in conjunction with other social care teams and multi-agency partners.
Take a leading role with the Assistant Director of Early Help and Partnerships in the continuous improvement of the MASH and Family Intervention Service based on performance, risk, and demand.
Responsible for ensuring practice is in line with current legislation and relevant guidance so that high quality, effective, assessments, plans and interventions are delivered to timescales, to meet children and family’s assessed needs and improve outcomes. This includes leading and advising on the management of cases that pose significant risk, where there are complex needs and/or attract a high profile.
Represent the service at multi-agency meetings, boards, and/or committees as required and positively manage, review, and evaluate data compliance, ensuring that high-quality administration and record-keeping is maintained.
Has responsibility for £500,000 budgets within the relevant services, ensuring high quality, value for money services including in-house and commissioned providers. This includes contributing to budget setting, budget monitoring, and delivery within budget targets, including the Section 17 budget and MASH budget.
To take lead responsibility for specific areas of practice and strategic development relevant to the service, including but not limited to Children’s legal planning and Havering Safeguarding Children’s Partnership. This involves maintaining engaged and effective multi-agency, collaborative working relationships across the partnership to ensure services are utilised appropriately.
Deputise for the Assistant Directors, and/or Director of Starting Well as and when required, including attendance at multi-agency meetings, boards, and/or committees as required.
Identify areas of improvement and deliver training to the services. Support the development and delivery of the Starting Well plan, embedding the vision, values, and strategic objectives for children and young people, their parents, and carers. Lead on the development of relevant strategies, policies, procedures, programmes, and projects in line with legislation and good practice.
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For an informal discussion about the post, please contact [email protected]
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 21/9/25 however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
You will be notified if your application has been successful. Interview date to be confirmed .
Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770
Additional Information
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