Salary: £29,381 (£48,969 – full-time equivalent)
Grade: Level 4, Zone 2
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG/Hybrid
Hours per week: 21.6 hours (3 days a week)
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract (Maternity Cover 11 August 2025 – 11 May 2026)
Closing Date: Thursday 19th June 2025 at 23:59
Interview: Monday 30th June 2025
About Camden
Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.
About Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP)
Safeguarding children and ensuring their wellbeing is a top priority for Camden Council and its partners. Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership is a multi-agency statutory body designed to ensure that local services work together effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. Our mission is to act in the best interests of our children and young people, listening to their experiences, ambitions, and ideas, and ensuring they feel seen and heard.
Visit www.cscp.org.uk to learn more about our work. Camden Council Children's Services was rated Outstanding by Ofsted ILACS inspection (2025), highlighting our strong partnerships and commitment to delivering high-quality care and support for children and young people.
What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of an innovative team to manage the development, planning and delivery of a range of safeguarding priorities for Camden children and young people. The role requires leading the successful delivery of a number of workstreams with a wide range of statutory and community partners. To achieve this, the postholder will develop and maintain relationships across the Camden Children’s Services and its partners in Health, Education, Police and community sector to make improvements on safeguarding practice, performance and joint working.
The role involves coordinating the system learning response to serious child safeguarding incidents, to ensure that they are undertaken effectively, with a focus on continuous improvement in safeguarding practices. This is an excellent opportunity to develop how you analyse issues, consider barriers, scope potential areas of development, and monitor progress to ensure recommendations are delivered to agreed timescales and achieve desired outcomes. Part of the role involves co-designing and coordinating the CSCP multi-agency safeguarding learning offer, including reporting on quality and impact of training and learning material. Contribute to the national reform of children's social care by implementing best practices and aligning local initiatives with the broader goals set out by the government.
To find out more about the work of the Camden Safeguarding Children Partnership - watch this short film.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. Please note Camden also offers the DBS update service.
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All About You
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.
We welcome applicants from various disciplines, offering a development opportunity to take on a strategic role in child safeguarding. You will be approachable and able to manage relationships with staff at different levels to achieve strategic goals.
Confident Communicator: Strong written and verbal skills to liaise with internal and external colleagues of varying seniority.
Self-Starter: Ability to work independently and collaboratively to manage competing priorities.
Analytical Skills: Write in different styles to present complex and sensitive information in accessible ways for diverse audiences.
Creative Problem Solver: Open and creative attitude to problem-solving with a planned approach.
Emotional Resilience: Coordinate statutory responses following serious child safeguarding incidents, adhering to a strict statutory framework.
Meeting Coordination: Provide high-level coordination for meetings, including agenda planning and minute taking, to progress milestone actions linked to strategic goals.
Project Management: Be able to draft project outline and formulate realistic action plans in collaboration with key stakeholders to drive change.
Children’s Services: Experience of having worked in Children’s Services setting.
Advanced IT Skills: Proficiency in using a range of Office 365 systems.
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'. For this specific role, read Jerrie’s Story - Jerrie - Camden Careers - Camden Council (camdenjobs.co.uk)
What We Offer
At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:
- 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Flexible working opportunities
- Interest free loans
- Access to our incredible staff networks
- Career development and training
- Wellbeing support and activities
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit https://www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at [email protected] or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
