Assistant Director ASC Commissioning
Assistant Director salary (£80,203 - £90,203)
37 hours, Full-Time
Temporary (12 months)
Hybrid: Stopford House and homeworking

Application Deadline: 4 August 2025, 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 5 August 2025
Interview Date: 7 August 2025
Interview Type: Face to face

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Your Role

Stockport is an ambitious developing borough being recently sighted as one of the best places to live in England. We are a socioeconomically diverse borough which brings both challenges and opportunities for our Adults Social Care off in Stockport. This role will be responsible for a significant part of Adult Social Care, your role will be accountable to the Director of Adult Social Care (DASS)

You will have extensive experience in both Adult Social Care Operational Practice and Commissioning. You will know and understand the opportunities and challenges in the Borough of Stockport and be able to demonstrate your expertise in working collaboratively with health and other partners. You will also have significant demonstrable knowledge in leading change as well as supporting national inspection frameworks.

About You

In this role you will:

• Lead work with commissioners and key partners across the Health & Social Care Economy to ensure that provision is geared to prevent, reduce or delay the need for statutory provision.
• The role will lead on developing an all age approach to commissioning for Stockport Council
• Work collaboratively with senior leaders in Health, ICB, Public Health, Commissioning and other key partners to ensure that our commissioning strategy supports our vision, ensures equity of access, is of high quality and delivers VFM.
• Provide clear leadership and effective management of the Adult Social Care Service working closely with the Assistant Director of ASC Operations and DASS
• Provide vision and strategic direction for the service in a period of significant change, shaping transformational change via appropriate plans and strategies.
• Propose and implement policies and initiatives to improve the lives of people with care and support needs in Stockport.
• To provide assurance around the planning, quality and sufficiency of care provision for people with care and support needs in Stockport as per statutory requirements
• Develop effective working relationships and form collaborative internal and external partnerships.
• Support and influence partners and communities to achieve a whole system approach to health and social care integration.

About Us

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Sarah Dillon on [emailprotected] for an informal discussion about the role

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

This post is politically restricted under the terms of the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act. This dictates that you must seek the council’s permission before taking up any additional appointments or positions.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

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Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.

We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.

Piccadilly, Stockport, SK1 3XE, United Kingdom

A generous annual leave allowance, up to 30 days annual leave dependent on grade and length of service, plus bank holidays with the option to purchase additional annual leave

Work Life Balance

Work and personal life balance. Many jobs include part time working, flexi-time and homeworking

Employee engagement networks to support colleagues and create opportunities to feed into both workforce and borough strategies

Support for volunteering by allowing up to 4 hours per month (pro rata) to carry out any duties associated with this

Learning and Development

A suite of learning and development opportunities, from important data protection training to all level apprenticeships

Discounts

A huge range of discounts via an easy to use portal, including: Gym memberships, restaurants, events, travel, cycle to work scheme, home electronics and more.

Access to an employee support hotline, available 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year.

Pension Scheme

Option to join the Local Government Pension Scheme and give your pension a boost by enrolling into a salary sacrifice scheme.

Our Recruitment Journey

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Application stage

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Shortlisting

In keeping with our commitment to inclusion, recruiting managers take an anonymised approach to recruiting when shortlisting your application form. They will use the supporting information section of your application and your work history to assess your suitability for the job. You'll be notified of the outcome of your application form via email and if successful you'll be invited to book an interview slot.

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Interviews

When preparing for the interview, you should familiarise yourself with the job profile. The About You section of the job profile contains the criteria that will be assessed at interview stage. You can prepare for interview by ensuring that you have clear examples relating to how you have met these criteria. If you require any reasonable adjustments because of a disability under the Equality Act, to assist you during the selection process we would be pleased to discuss them with you on [emailprotected]

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Offer stage and pre-employment checks

Offer stage and pre-employment checks If you're offered the job after interviewing, you'll be sent a conditional offer detailing your new role. Along with the conditional contract and offer letter, our team will be in touch regarding your pre-employment checks.

The pre-employment checks that you will need to undertake will depend on the role that you've applied for. These checks may include:
• right to work in the UK
• Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

The information provided will be dealt with in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice
• gaps in employment
• reference checks. We will request references prior to issuing your conditional contract
• pre-employment health declaration
• qualification checks