About the role
Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to provide leadership, challenge, and comprehensive support to the Executive Director (DASS) and the Adults, Health and Commissioning Leadership Team on the management and delivery of the Directorate’s key operational roles.
If yes, then we want to hear from you!
Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an experienced and skilled professional to provide leadership and direction to support the Adults, Health and Commissioning Directorate to meet its business needs.
Can you rise to the challenge? Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery after a period of joint working with Peterborough City Council; this brings some exciting opportunities to work with us. With a new Executive Director for Adults, Health and Commissioning having recently joined the council, we will be focussed on improving services to the people of Cambridgeshire. This role will provide vital support and leadership in service development and transformational work, including improvement programmes, social care reform, performance improvement and providing support and co-ordination to the self-assessment and CQC assurance process.
If you have the passion for driving change and an ambition to help shape our future, this could be the perfect next role for you.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Patrick Warren-Higgs, Executive Director Adults, Health and Commissioning at Patrick.Warren-Higgs@Cambridgeshire.gov.uk
What will you be doing?
You will have the opportunity to influence and implement real and positive change, ensuring Cambridgeshire County Council continues to provide excellent services.
Working autonomously, you will implement change processes, across the Directorate, through a wide network of contacts, using your ability to negotiate and influence a range of internal, corporate, and external partners to get the best outcomes for the service. You will also manage the organisational and timing of information and engagement, to ensure a consistent and professional approach to Adults, Health and Commissioning’s formal reports, responses, and communications.
About you
The successful candidate will:
- Be highly motivated, proactive and innovative person with a proven track record of delivery.
- Have an ability to manage and deliver transformational change within a fast-moving environment.
- Provide comprehensive support to the DASS by managing projects, problem solving and highlighting and resolving risks and issues.
- Develop options and prepare reports, making recommendations to assist and influence senior managers.
- Coordinate and manage the Business Planning process, working closely with colleagues across the Directorate and wider Council, in shaping and producing the relevant business plans, through to the development of implementation and monitoring arrangements.
- Lead on and manage key enablers for the staff in the Directorate including IT systems, accommodation, health and safety, business continuity planning and other corporate initiatives.
- Lead on key Organisational Development tasks and the management of Directorate wide events such as leadership and staff engagement activities.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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