Head Of Service Adult Social Care in Hove

Contractual hours: 37 Package: We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages., This position is currently only open to candidates that currently work for Brighton & Hove City Council either as an employee or as an agency worker. Do you have a passion for leading high-quality care and support services? Are you an inspirational leader who can motivate large and diverse teams to deliver outstanding care? Can you balance operational performance, quality, safeguarding and financial sustainability in a complex social care environment? Do you thrive on building partnerships that improve outcomes for adults with care and support needs? If so, we would like to hear from you., Brighton & Hove City Council is seeking an exceptional leader to become our next Head of Service for In-House Provider Services. This is a pivotal senior leadership role responsible for a diverse portfolio of services that support some of the city’s most vulnerable residents, including Older People’s Services, Learning Disability Services and our hostel-based accommodation services. This is an opportunity to shape the future of directly delivered adult social care services, ensuring residents receive safe, effective, person-centred support whilst leading transformation, innovation and continuous improvement across a large operational workforce. As Head of Service, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across a range of in-house care and support services. You will be accountable for:

• Delivering high-quality, customer-focused services that improve outcomes for residents.
• Leading large multidisciplinary teams across a diverse service portfolio.
• Driving service transformation and continuous improvement.
• Promoting excellence in safeguarding practice and quality assurance.
• Ensuring services meet statutory responsibilities and relevant regulatory requirements, including CQC standards.
• Managing significant budgets whilst delivering value for money and sustainable services.
• Working collaboratively with NHS colleagues, providers, the voluntary sector, elected members and other key partners.
• You will play a key role in helping Adult Social Care deliver its ambitions for improvement, integration and innovation, ensuring that people using services receive high-quality support which promotes independence, wellbeing and choice., You will be a visible and values-led leader who can support teams through change while maintaining a relentless focus on quality, safety and outcomes for people who draw on our services.

Why join Brighton & Hove?

This is an opportunity to lead services that make a direct difference to people’s lives every day. You will join an ambitious Adult Social Care leadership team committed to improving outcomes, supporting our workforce and developing innovative approaches to care and support. Working alongside colleagues across the council, NHS and wider system, you will help shape the future of adult social care provision across Brighton & Hove. If you're passionate about high-quality care, strong leadership and improving lives, we'd love to hear from you.

Encouraging a diverse workforce Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

We’re looking for a strategic leader with substantial experience in adult social care, health, or related care services.

You will bring:

• Significant senior management experience leading complex operational services.
• Experience of managing substantial budgets and resources.
• A track record of leading successful service improvement and organisational change.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
• Experience of partnership working across health, social care and wider community services.
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills with the ability to inspire confidence and create a positive culture.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with effective operational delivery.

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check. We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.