About the role
This Head of Service role has a primary focus on hospital discharge and the Council’s relationships with health colleagues. We aim to facilitate timely discharge, achieving the best outcomes for people in Cambridgeshire, and supporting them to live at home, in their communities for as long as possible. You will report to a Service Director in our Adults, Health and Commissioning directorate where you will have a supportive peer group of Heads of Service covering various service areas.
We work on a hybrid basis and expect the post-holder to be in the office at least two days per week. We have offices at New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald, Hereward Hall in March and other locations; we are happy to discuss the most suitable option with the successful candidate.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Donna Glover, Service Director at donna.glover@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
You will provide leadership to the Transfer of Care Service and other adult social care functions, as needed. You will be highly visible across the wider health and social care system, developing and maintaining key relationships to drive forwards our ambitions to work closer to communities with a ‘home first’ approach. You will lead operationally as well as strategically to ensure that the service is safe and effective while always driving forward improvement, including influencing wider system change. You will ensure your services are ready for CQC assurance and aspire to the highest of practice standards at all times.
About you
You will be an authentic leader with social work values at the centre of all you do. You must be able to quickly understand and work within the wider system priorities and complexities, using your skills to navigate barriers and maximise opportunities to drive towards ever improved outcomes for the people the service supports. You will operate with absolute clarity about adult social care’s role and responsibilities, including the boundaries around those and where the responsibility of other partners sits. You will be committed to leading a diverse and inclusive service where all colleagues feel supported and have a voice, and you will demonstrate this at all time in your own behaviours.
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 firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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