The Head of Neighbourhoods and Partnerships (working across both Social Care and Communities) is a senior leadership role responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives that reduce the need for formal care and support by promoting independence, wellbeing, and early intervention.
This role focuses on creating sustainable, community-based solutions that support adults, families, and communities to live healthier, more independent lives for longer. You will work collaboratively with partners across health, education, voluntary sectors, and communities to design and implement innovative, evidence-based prevention service delivery improvements, as well as inform commissioning strategies.
Responsibilities include:
1. Development and implementation of a targeted prevention strategy to identify and develop responses and opportunities to improve early intervention and prevention.
2. Integrate intelligence on risk and protective factors, information, and support across the council and partners, embedding learnings from communities and services about successes and challenges.
3. Lead transformation programmes to reduce long-term demand on social care and communities through early intervention and prevention.
4. Champion a whole-family, whole-community, whole-life, whole-system approach to service design and delivery.
5. Identify opportunities for innovation, lead multidisciplinary teams, and foster a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement, both internally and externally.
6. Promote trauma-informed, strengths-based, and restorative practices across the workforce.
7. Oversee several of the council's preventative services, including Carers support strategy, co-production, community, and safeguarding partnerships.
8. Identify risks to the successful implementation of the prevention strategy.
9. Ensure cost-effective delivery of high-quality services.
10. Support a culture of high expectations in service delivery, ensuring joined-up services focused on excellence and outcomes.
11. Use intelligence-led decision-making to drive continuous improvement and operational practice.
12. Embed a service framework to monitor achievement and impact, providing feedback into the wider council strategy.
13. Foster a partnership ethos to achieve jointly commissioned outcomes across the council and partners.
14. Monitor and manage service delivery within budgets and improvement targets.
15. Responsible for workforce development, including planning, development, sufficiency, and succession planning.
16. Engage in effective corporate management with other Heads of Service to uphold standards.
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