Salary: £800 per day

Full-Time (37 hours)

This is an exciting opportunity to join and provide leadership to our high performing Adult Social Care service in Manchester, deputising for the Executive Director of Adult Social Services. Adult Social Care has been on a long term and hugely successful journey of improvement and transformation over the last five years with the successful delivery of our transformation programme Better Outcomes, Better Lives, which focused on strengths based approaches and maintaining independence. Using the learning from this programme, a transformation framework has been established: Achieving Better Outcomes Together. This framework continues with the objective of improving outcomes for people and will support the focus on strengths based practice to be widened to a strengths based system.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and dynamic leader to join the Manchester City Council (MCC) Adult Services Leadership Team, working with the Executive Directors in Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) and with wider NHS partners in Manchester including the NHS GM Integrated care, to support the transformation of Adult Social Care and Health within Manchester.

The Deputy Director works with all Manchester partners involved in the delivery of the health and social care system, supporting and acting on behalf of the Executive Director to provide strategic leadership, direction and support for adult social care (ASC) as well as taking a leading role in commissioning and market development in the city.

As a senior leader in the City, the post holder will contribute fully to the City’s ambitions and responsibilities covering improved health and wellbeing outcomes, Our Manchester, and the reform of public services.

Skills and Experience:

• Senior leadership experience, operating at or close to board level.

• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of Adult Social Care.

• Good understanding of health and social care system dynamics, reform and transformation programmes.

• A knowledge of local services and pathways and a knowledge of best practice elsewhere.

• Knowledge of standards required within commissioning/provision of health and social care services.

• To understand complex analytical information which will describe local service quality and outcomes against objectives.

• Track record of delivering change to transform health and social care services.

• Experience of taking a significant role in leading and transforming health and social care services.

• Experience and knowledge of advising political structures to ensure objectivity and clear policy advice.

• Experience of the development of commissioning plans.

• Experience of working strategically and with a future focus.

• Understanding of and commitment to the principles, practices and promotion of equality and diversity.

• To demonstrate appropriate qualifications/experience in respect of the discharge of adult social services commissioning within an integrated commissioning environment.

• Demonstrable continuing professional development.

As the successful candidate you will be able to demonstrate experience and knowledge of the following:

• Working closely with partners, they will be responsible for providing expert leadership, management and delivery of strategic and operational commissioning of adult social care services.

• Effective commissioning will ensure Manchester has a social care market which has sufficient capacity, is sustainable and is the highest possible quality.

• The post holder will lead transformation activity within Adult Social Care.

• The post holder will also lead the development and maintenance of consistently robust budgeting practice and oversight, performance frameworks, systems and processes to ensure ASC delivers safe, effective and efficient services meeting Care Act requirements and delivery of the statutory duties of the Council.

• The role holder will drive the delivery of organisational priorities through dynamic and effective leadership.

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy or other vacancies in your area please contact Liam Murphy on liamm@4recruitmentservices.com