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Head of Community Services - FLK12207

Job details
Posting date: 01 November 2024
Salary: £102,672.00 to £102,672.00 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 November 2024
Location: Falkirk, FK2 9EE
Company: Falkirk Council
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: FLK12207

Summary

Job Advert

We are seeking an exceptional, experienced leader to join our newly reformed senior leadership team in Falkirk. The successful candidate will lead the Partnership’s Community Services, one of the four refreshed portfolio areas.

The Partnership is on an ambitious journey of change to ensuring we can deliver the best possible care and support for people in Falkirk, while addressing the complex challenges currently facing health and social care services.

The successful candidate will join the Senior Leadership Team and uphold our leadership principles to:

  • Take a one team approach, based on integrity and compassionate leadership;
  • Bring together the right people and information to make safe, timely, and successful decisions;
  • Provide clear roles and lines of responsibility, accountability, and delegated authority;
  • Ensure financial responsibility and accountability is everyone’s role;
  • Support a whole-system approach, centred around people in our communities.

As Head of Community Services, you will be responsible for:

  • Care and support at home
  • Social work services
  • Care homes
  • Community bedded care
  • Home First
  • Out of Hours services
  • Hospital discharge

So, if you are an enthusiastic and inspirational leader with experience at working at a senior level in a complex organisation, and you can help us achieve our ambitions, we would be very interested to hear from you.

Further information is available at www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/falkirk or via the NHS Forth Valley JobTrain website, where you can apply online.

Applications close at Midnight on 17th November 2024. For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Gail Woodcock, Chief Officer via email: gail.woodcock@falkirk.gov.uk

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