Senior Strategy & Policy Advisor - Adult Social Care
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Gorffennaf 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £44,326 i £52,149 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Hybrid Working |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Gorffennaf 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QH |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 3 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Essex County Council |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | req17429_1721293925 |
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This is a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for 12 months to cover maternity leave. Secondments from another local authority can be considered. As part of this role there may also be opportunity to undertake additional tasks on behalf of the Head of Service which may be eligible for a temporary supplementary payment.
In Adult Social Care we believe that people should be able to live their lives to the fullest and that with the right support everyone can achieve some independence. We want to support people to maximise their own potential for control over their lives in a sustainable way that is preventative and localised.
This role is focused on ensuring ECC can develop its strategy, policy and planning approach to support the definition and delivery of outcomes. Balancing a strategic focus with an operational overview will be a prerequisite in working in partnership with local and central government, the private and voluntary sector. It will ensure policies are in place, reviewed and maintained for the workforce to deliver the best possible outcomes for adults across Essex.
The Senior & Policy Advisor will work to ensure that ECC is aligned to the activity of key partners to provide a coherent planning framework to ensure ECC can progress towards positive outcomes. Contributing to thought leadership and championing innovation to help the Council achieve ECC outcomes ensuring the delivery of effective and targeted intervention services. Senior Advisors must be flexible and agile at the cutting edge of national policy development.
Responsibilities will include…
- Providing strategy and policy advice to key stakeholder which includes the Cabinet Member, Executive Director for Adult Social Care and the Adults Leadership Team to support the decision-making process.
- Working with external partners and stakeholders, including integrated care systems and the 5 Essex place-based alliances, to ensure that all policy potential opportunities are maximised through innovative approaches to strategy development and delivery.
- Leading and supporting the development of corporate planning activity and Adult Social Care to develop robust strategies.
- Identifying and understanding the implications of local and national guidance and how it relates to adult social care commissioning and delivery.
- Driving the development of clear, safe and robust policies, procedures and processes that successfully link practice across Essex and ensure these processes are available to and understood by operational and support services.
- Developing links to engage with the latest thinking in business, academia and think tanks to ensure utilise such insight across ECC.
- Maintaining a close and strong link with operational practice, involving practitioners in consultation and decision making around impact on policy changes, ensuring the customer is kept at the centre of thought, decision and direction setting.
- Leading on communicating and embedding key changes in national legislation, guidance, regulations or inspection mechanisms and liaise with other local authorities, seeking out and sharing best practice and innovations.
- Leading on the provision of high quality health and social care policy and strategy advice to ensure key stakeholders are supported, underpinned with detailed evidence for a plethora of varying audiences, stakeholders and partners.
- Ensuring strategies are developed building upon lived experience and that co-production is embedded.
- Ensuring Equality, Inclusion and Diversity is considered as part of all decisions taken and is celebrated.
- Providing professional oversight to a small team of strategy and policy advisors.
You will bring…
- Educated to degree or equivalent by experience together with evidence of continuing professional and managerial development including a management or post graduate qualification.
- Experience of successfully delivering outcomes in a social care environment challenging social and family situations.
- Strong communication skills and a breadth of knowledge of members' and community needs, and interests supported by effective skills in building and maintaining effective relationships with them.
- Ability to build strong relationships with partners, other agencies and the local community to achieve joint objectives and offer a supportive framework for children and vulnerable adults.
- Experience of having worked at a senior level in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross functional perspective.
- Strong IT skills and ability to analyse and identify problems quickly, using own judgement and problem solving.
- Can think clearly, using evidence to discern options, trends, problems, causes and effect and can distil abstraction and complexity into simple conclusions to inform practical commissioning.
- Experience of working at a senior level in a political environment, skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective.
To read more about us please visit: Adult Social Care
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