Practice Development Lead - Medway Safeguarding Children Partnership (MSCP)

The Medway Safeguarding Children Partnership (MSCP) are looking to recruit a part time Practice Development Lead.

Reporting to the Business Manager the Practice Development Lead is responsible for the MSCP learning and development priorities, including leading on child safeguarding practice reviews in line with statutory requirements. 

The Practice Development Lead is responsible for the strategic oversight of the MSCP sub-groups, holding statutory safeguarding partners and relevant agencies to account, advising the MSCP Business Manager and Safeguarding Partnership Executive on partnership performance, action for change and the impact of interventions for children.

This is an exciting opportunity for the right individual to make a real difference to the lives of children in Medway. You will have knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues in relation to children and child protection and experience of working in a multi-agency environment. You will also have an understanding of role of quality assurance and have the skills required to lead multi agency audits. 

We’re looking for someone with development communication skills with the ability to present complex and sensitive information in an understandable way, using a variety of methods across a range of audiences.

About the Medway Safeguarding Children Partnership (MSCP)

The MSCP is a partnership of Medway Council, Kent Police and NHS Kent and Medway. The purpose of the MSCP is to support and enable local organisations and agencies to work together in a system where:

• Children are safeguarded and their welfare promoted
• Partner organisations and agencies collaborate, share and co-own the vision for how to achieve improved outcomes for vulnerable children
• Organisations and agencies challenge appropriately and hold one another to account effectively
• There is early identification and analysis of new safeguarding issues and emerging threats
• Learning is promoted and embedded in a way that local services for children and families can become more reflective and implement changes to practice
• Information is shared effectively to facilitate more accurate and timely decision making for children and families.

Interviews will be held on Friday 14th March 2025.

For an informal discussion regarding this post, please contact Anna Batty, MSCP Business Manager on 01634 336329.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile.

Our organisation:

Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.

Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.

We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.

Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.

Important Information-

Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile

Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement

Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age

For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online

Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.  All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.