Kent
Social Care and Social Work
Interim
27-03-2026
02-04-2026
SA-786-1063
£358.91 per day Limited/Umbrella: £500.00 per day
Job Purpose
An opportunity has arisen for an interim Head of Adults social care. The focus for the role would be to undertake a review of the safeguarding and quality assurance service across Adult Social Care which includes the safeguarding and Deprivation of Liberties team, Principal Social Worker role, Quality Assurance, Client Affairs team and professional standards academy.
Working arrangements are negotiable - likely to be at least 3 days pw on site.
Your new role
- The review will include wider areas in the service to evaluate the connectivity with the wider operational and commissioning services which although not major can at times crop up as operational issues.
- The output of this work would be a proposed restructure for the service to deliver. It is anticipated that the review outcome would propose a mini-restructure with options where relevant.
- The review will also need to explore the commercial opportunities of the client affairs team which will contribute to the Council's Transformation workstream on Commercial.
- The outcome will ultimately need to be reported to the Directorate Leadership Team and potential the Board which considers matters of transformation.
- The timescales for delivery are likely to be challenging with a report submitted for consideration to the Directorate Leadership Team.
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' or call us on 020 7096 2981 for further details.