The Role - Assistant Director, Strategic Lead for Short Term Services

Job Title: Assistant Director – Strategic Lead for Short Term Services

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                             Assistant Director – Strategic Lead for Short Term Services               
• Job Location:                      Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 2TG
• Salary:                                £81,147 – £89,417 per annum 
• Benefits:                             Free offsite parking – view our range of benefits!
• Hours per Week:                37 hours
• Contract Type:                    Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     Sunday, 30 June 2024 
• This post is not open to job share

Do you have senior management experience within social care and looking for the next step in your leadership career?
 

If you are looking to move to Gloucestershire, we offer a relocation allowance of up to £8,000 subject to qualifying conditions. There has never been a better time to make the move!
 

About the role:
 

This is a new and exciting role, responsible for improving the quality of social work practice and taking a lead in workforce planning. The Assistant Director – Strategic Lead for Short Term Services role has overall leadership responsibility for Adult Social Care (ASC) Operations and strategic responsibility for short term services. This includes inhouse services and our integrated hospital and out of hospital pathway teams. Responsibilities include the operational delivery of short-term ASC assessment and support planning functions as well as the delivery of short-term provision.

The Assistant Director – Strategic Lead for Short Term Services plays a key part within our ASC senior leadership team and will lead on strategic developments and operational services designed to secure good outcomes for the residents of Gloucestershire and specifically be responsible for ensuring that work is undertaken to achieve the council’s strategic and priorities. The role provides professional and strategic leadership, maintaining high levels of commitment to delivering personalised care and support that draws on people’s own strengths and wider support networks. Central to this role is the need to ensure that social care and health services work in a joined-up way to achieve the wider benefits of service integration. Within this, the role leads key services, ensuring that they are able to respond to demands whilst safeguarding people in complex and vulnerable circumstances, achieving value for money and connecting people to appropriate community resources to maximise independence. Within all areas of work, this role needs to ensure that high standards of practice and excellent outcomes are achieved!

About us:
 

Using the prospect of the new CQC assessments of quality of care in local authorities and systems, Adult Social Care in Gloucestershire has embarked on a year of self-assessment and improvement planning. A key aspect of our improvement journey is to ensure that our professional leadership is at the forefront of strategy development and influence.

You will join our well-established Adult Social Care Senior Leadership Team reporting to the Director of Operations Adult Social Care. You will be based at Shire Hall in Gloucester, working as part of an agile working offer, which includes working from home combined with time in the office and travel throughout the county. At times you will be required to work outside of normal office hours, including management cover for out-of-hours services.

About you:
 

You will have a recognised professional qualification and significant experience at senior management level within social care. You will have proven experience in the leadership, management, and development of teams, along with a desire to progress these skills further. You will have critical thinking skills to analyse complex situations and make informed decisions.

You will have worked in a statutory setting and have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the adult social care legal and policy framework and other relevant legislation.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. Learn more about our Values.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

Our Offer:
 

Our people do all they can to make the difference to local communities in Gloucestershire. And that is exactly what we aim to do for our people. Here are some of the ways we aim to achieve this:

• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive, and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Clear career progression pathways, to support you in progressing professionally and personally
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• 30 days annual leave fixed entitlement
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
• Agile working opportunities (please discuss at interview)

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