ASC Digital Policy Advisor
| Posting date: | 20 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,188 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Leeds: £32188; London: £36,244 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 345475/1 |
Summary
Diversity and inclusion are two of our biggest priorities and we recognise they are a work in progress. We aim to establish a workforce which reflects the society we serve, and DHSC welcomes applications from all. We are especially interested to hear from gender diverse, disabled, LGBT+ candidates, and candidates from underrepresented ethnic backgrounds, including Black, Asian, mixed and other ethnic groups. Diversity of experience helps us improve outcomes and reduce inequalities across health and social care, and helps ensure the Department becomes a more inclusive place to work. We also welcome applications from people with experience of working in the social care sector. We view flexible working and inclusive leadership as essential for all our employees.
This role is within the Adult Social Care Group and sits within the newly formed Innovation and Improvement Unit. This unit seeks to support the sector and local authorities to trial, adopt and scale new approaches to planning, managing and delivering care.
This is an exciting role which offers a unique blend of policy development and project delivery, combining strategic vision setting with on the ground impact to drive real change for the people who draw on care. New and innovative digital approaches to assessing and delivering care are increasingly critical to delivering the change and improvement needed in social care. The ASC Digital Policy Advisor would be responsible for managing the day-to-day delivery of interventions to support the digital social care market and will support the development of long-term strategy.
This role would suit people who are comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments to build consensus and drive change across local authorities and the care market. The role holder would be expected to support both the development of long-term digital policy and to manage day-to-day project delivery.
This role will focus on supporting local authorities and private sector suppliers to improve the digital systems used to monitor and deliver care. This will require the role holder to work across a complex stakeholder landscape including multiple central government departments, local government, the private sector and more to develop and deliver a set of interventions to support and improve the market delivering these systems.
The Digital Policy Advisor will be primarily responsible for the day-to-day project management and delivery of programmes in the digital social care market focusing on improving technical infrastructure. They will also support the development of the long-term strategy for this market, through market research and analysis, building relationships with key stakeholders, and preparing materials for communication and presentation.
This is a unique opportunity in government to blend high-level, ambitious strategy setting with day-to-day project management and delivery. As such this role will play a crucial part in enabling the delivery of the government's reform agenda for Adult Social Care as set out in the 'Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care' and 'Care Data Matters'.
This role will provide significant opportunities for learning and development. Working in such a broad stakeholder landscape will provide opportunities to build relationships and gain exposure to multiple aspects of government policy-setting and delivery, including exposure to senior leaders in the Civil Service. Combining both strategy and delivery will allow the role holder to develop both these skillsets, while gaining a better understanding of the necessary links between them.