Assistant Director Living and Ageing Well

Job description

Job responsibilities

Sheffield is a brilliant city resourceful, inventive, welcoming a place rooted in its history and ambitious for the future. Its a place full of potential and we are determined to create a council that works in partnership with residents, communities, and partners to unleash that potential.

Here in Sheffield, were determinedto give every resident a better quality of life. We want to end inequality, increase early intervention, and give people more opportunity to live at home. The living and ageing well programme plays a huge part in this by supporting older adults and people living with dementia, including those returning from hospital requiring short term support. In this key operational role, youll lead and shape the programme, guiding large teams, delivering effective services, and managing sizeable budgets.

Drawing on your ability to energise and inspire, youll introduce an integrated community wellbeing model, which provides seamless support and reduces the need for care. Its a chance to re-think and co-produce better services that enable people to remain at home, where they want to be.

This challenge calls for a senior leader with experience in leading operational health or social care services. Degree-educated (or equivalent), youll be a registered social worker or health and care professional, who can lead short term intervention services, commissioned services and directly provided, regulated CQC care services. For these services, you will maintain quality service performance and grade.

Crucially, you can also develop integrated ways of working, secure value for money and connect quickly with people. You listen to what others think and build solutions accordingly.

With your grip of strategic, tactical, and emotional intelligence, youll be the kind of collaborative and encouraging leader who embodies our One Council approach.

Help us empower communities and deliver for the city and its amazing people. Join us in Sheffield.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of continuous professional development proportionate to a senior adult social care leadership role.
• Significant experience of managing services in an adult social care or health setting.
• Highly experienced in directly managing performance in terms of quality, outcomes, and use of resources.
• Experience of leading, managing commissioned and/ or directly provided regulated CQC care services and maintaining their effective performance and grade.

Qualifications

Essential

• Diploma / Masters/ Degree Social Work or Nursing or Occupational Therapy or Equivalent Qualification

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Able to synthesise customer, carer and staff views across a large service area to ensure a you said, we did approach
• Able to understand and proportionately apply legal and procedural frameworks to a range of service delivery
• Able to understand and improve the logistics and value for money of a complex service area
• Able to develop integrated ways of working and service models with colleagues inside and outside the Council
• Able to understand the views of others and to negotiate to achieve a good outcome, including with members, senior officers and external partners
• Able to manage change through grip of strategic, tactical and emotional intelligence
• Able to understand own development needs and manage stress in challenging environment Interview Interview/test Interview/test
• Able to communicate clearly and in tune with audience, both verbally and in writing
• Able to quickly analyse data and information, and use to recommend next steps

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield City Council

Address

1, Moorfoot

Sheffield

S1 4PL

Employer's website

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/home/job-vacancies (Opens in a new tab)