Job Title: Head of Family Safeguarding
Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No
Salary Range: £99,655.50 to £112,690.56
Contract Type: Permanent
Full time/Part Time: Full Time
Term Time only post:
Advert Closing Date: 31/05/2026
Job Purpose
Our Story
Jersey’s Children’s Services is on a journey.
In recent years, Children’s Services faced challenges including fragmented leadership, inconsistent practice, and reduced confidence across the system.
But that story is changing.
Over the last 18 months, a dedicated improvement programme has stabilised leadership, strengthened practice, and created measurable progress. With an investment of £15 million, we are demonstrating a clear commitment to the children of Jersey, our colleagues, and the service itself ensuring that every child has the opportunity to experience a safe and fulfilling childhood.
Now, we are building something permanent.
Something better.
A new leadership structure to take forward our vision of better support and care for children and young people in Jersey. As a smaller service than many in the UK, influence over service delivery and improvement is at the teams' fingertips with greater oversight across the various services.
Now we’re looking for exceptional leaders to help write the next chapter.
Head of Family Safeguarding
Lead practice that keeps children safe and families together. In this critical leadership role, you will shape safeguarding services, embed excellent social work practice, and ensure confident, timely decision-making in high-risk situations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for safeguarding services
- Drive high-quality child protection practice and decision-making
- Lead performance improvement and inspection readiness
- Work collaboratively across agencies to improve outcomes
About You
- Registered Social Worker with senior safeguarding experience
- Strong understanding of child protection systems
- Proven leadership in complex, high-risk environments
- Resilient, values-driven and child-focused
Interviews
Interviews for all three roles will take place on Monday 15 June and Wednesday 17 June 2026.
Why Join Us?
- Delivering the vision to ensure meaningful impact for children and families
- Be part of a once-in-a-career opportunity to deliver whole system change
- Work in a service with clear direction, investment, and ambition
- Join a leadership team committed to lasting change
This is more than a role. It’s a chance to lead change that will be felt for generations with a service that holds children and young people at heart.
For all informal enquiries please contact Pauline Naraine, Associate Director via P.Naraine@health.gov.je
Job Description
Please find enclosed Job Description - Head of Service
Jersey Public Service Careers
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
Extraordinary, every day.