Head of Service Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health
| Posting date: | 05 February 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 March 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 6BH |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75682143 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade N. SCP 56 £78,824 - SCP 59 £87,504
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne
Assessment Date: Interviews 4th and 6th March 2025
To apply for this role please upload your CV together with a supporting statement that provides evidence of how you meet the essential requirements of the person specification.
Please also include details of your education and training and employment history and any reference to your qualifications that are specified on the person specification within your CV/supporting statement.
Tameside is one of the 10 local authorities that make up Greater Manchester, nestling between the buzz of Manchester City Centre and the beauty of the Peak District on our doorstep. With a manufacturing and industrial heritage, we face many endemic issues associated with poverty, low-skills, low pay economy and inter-generational health challenges.
It is an exciting time to join Tameside Council as we begin our plans to reform and redesign Adult Social Care and implement the intentions of The White Paper ‘People at the Heart of Care’.
We’re looking for a new Head of Service who will have responsibility for Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health Services, this includes direct delivery services and registered provision. You will lead and embed the newly formed Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health Service in Tameside along with the AMHP and Out of Hours service, working closely with the Assistant Director of Adults and colleagues across the Health and Social Care System.
The Role
To lead the Social Work and Provider Learning Disability, Autism and Mental Health services, building strong positive working relationships ensuring a streamlined efficient response in managing the service leading to positive outcomes for people.
This will include:
- Responsible for the setting and implementation of the Service’s strategic direction, policies and objectives.
- Build and develop the strengths and skills of employees within the service, creating a confident learning and development environment for staff and managers to progress their careers in Tameside.
- Provide visible and supportive leadership, empowering, enabling, motivating and developing the service’s workforce and fostering a positive organisational culture in line with the vision of Tameside.
- Ability to lead, motivate and develop managers within the service, and ensure they maintain a culture of change that is team based, performance driven and maintains the motivation of staff.
- Establish a performance culture, including service planning, target setting, performance appraisal and the management and motivation of integrated teams and staff groups.
- You will work in collaboration with internal, external partners and Voluntary organisations to build up positive working relationships across the whole system in achieving the best possible outcomes for the people we support.
About You
You’ll need to show you can drive ongoing service improvement with challenging oversight, under pressure and putting our residents first. We want calm leadership, constancy of purpose, resilience, robustness, drive and excellent people and partnership skills.
You will have extensive leadership experience at senior management level, and in depth understanding of local authority adult social care. We’ll focus more on your skills, experience and capacity to lead a clear, but demanding agenda within a highly political environment.
About Us
Tameside is a place that is passionate and committed to improving outcomes and creating a positive experience for individuals and families.
‘Our People Our Place Our Plan’ outlines our aims and aspirations for the area, its people and how we commit to work for everyone, every day.
Together we are committed to ensuring people lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives, we are dedicated to person centred and strength based practice, providing high quality health and social care support, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong, supportive and self- sufficient communities.
Tameside adopts a positive working culture, we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We are committed to staff development and provide a wide range of training opportunities in a supportive working environment.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact Tracey Harrison Assistant Director on 07971861939
Reference Number: DPT596
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