Head of Service - Home First, Community Rehabilitation and Reablement
Captain's Road Social Work Centre
Salary: £91,689 - £103,204
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
Responsibilities
Lead the implementation of Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership's (the Partnership) strategies through management of City of Edinburgh Council (The Council) and NHS Lothian services ensuring all targets are achieved.
Lead the provision of: Council-provided and purchased care at home services, day care for older people and carers support, NHS Home First, Discharge management and community Allied Health Professional services to ensure that the population of Edinburgh receives high quality assessment, care, support and treatment and engage directly with NHS services on the prevention of admission and the facilitation of early discharge from hospital.
Lead the development of strategy and the transformation and integration of these Council and NHS services with a focus on improving quality and safety, maximising rehabilitation and individual capacity and early intervention to reduce future demand on services.
Lead the relationship with statutory and non-statutory partners and commissioned services to shape services to deliver these objectives.
Pre-Employment Checks
This position is subject to a Standard Disclosure check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
Our Commitment
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Other Information
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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