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Assistant Director – Children's Safeguarding & Quality Assurance

Assistant Director – Children's Safeguarding & Quality Assurance Six-figure package

With a relatively new leadership team, we are looking for others who are enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of our most vulnerable children and young people and excited about both the possibilities and challenges that the future in Kent holds.

With good progress now made and on-going continual improvement, this is an exciting time to join Kent as an Assistant Director. We need the best leaders possible to realise our ambition to be a good and then outstanding authority for Children's services, making this post very important to us.

A qualifed social worker, you will have signifcant experience of operational management within the public or voluntary sector together with the ability to translate strategic policy initiatives into effective professional practice. Good stakeholder management, leadership and communication skills are all key to the role.

To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Yvonne Frayling or William Richards at our retained advisers Green Park on 0203 145 3439 or visit the microsite.

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