Head of Service in Ipswich

Job Purpose
The Head of Service is a senior leader with overall responsibility for the safe, effective and high-quality delivery of Children's Community Services, including Health Visiting, School Nursing, Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) and associated 0–19 services.
The postholder provides both strategic and operational leadership, ensuring services deliver improved outcomes for children, young people and families whilst meeting all statutory, regulatory, safeguarding and commissioning requirements.
The role holds direct accountability for safeguarding arrangements, clinical quality, governance, workforce performance, service delivery, financial management, risk management and regulatory compliance across services within scope.
As the organisation's senior operational lead for safeguarding, quality and governance, the postholder has authority to set standards, seek assurance, require corrective action and intervene directly where quality, performance or safety concerns are identified.
The postholder will lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (0–19), ensuring services are evidence-based, responsive to local population needs and aligned with national policy, statutory guidance and organisational priorities.
The postholder will act as the organisation's CQC Registered Manager and lead the continuous development, transformation and improvement of children's community health services.
Key Accountabilities
Provide strategic and operational leadership across Children's Community Services, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality service delivery.
Lead the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme (0–19), ensuring achievement of national, local and commissioned outcomes.
Hold overall accountability for safeguarding arrangements, statutory compliance and organisational assurance relating to children and young people.
Act as the senior safeguarding lead for services within scope, providing expert advice, leadership and oversight of safeguarding practice.
Ensure learning from safeguarding reviews, audits, inspections, serious incidents, complaints and investigations is embedded into operational practice.
Lead safeguarding governance arrangements, ensuring effective supervision, audit, policy development, training and quality assurance systems are in place.
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