Head of Service - Children's Community Health

Suffolk | Endeavour House
£45 per hour Umbrella
12-Month Contract
Hybrid 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

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Lisa Hallinan Principal Consultant | Caritas Recruitment
[email protected]
07469 676076

Caritas Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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