Head of Social Care Operations
| Posting date: | 30 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,537.00 to £70,791.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £60537.00 - £70791.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Huddersfield, HD1 2ND |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | F0014-15853 |
Summary
You will lead and manage the community social work teams across Kirklees, ensuring the delivery of high-quality social work practice to defined cohorts of people with social care needs. This will be primarily to older people, people with a physical disability and people with autism. You will manage and lead key areas of social care delivery in the Directorate and will provide advice to senior management, including the Executive Director of Adults and Health. You will ensure a restorative learning culture is embedded where practitioners and managers feel comfortable and confident to give and receive high support and high challenge developing a shared culture of reflection, learning and improvement. You will be outcomes focused, ensuring quality assurance is systematically embedded across the service and has a direct impact on practice and outcomes for adults and their families. As the Head of Service, you will play a pivotal role in leading statutory social work within the community. This involves ensuring that all statutory responsibilities are met and that assessments for eligibility are conducted in accordance with the Care Act, the Mental Health Act (S117 after Care), the Mental Capacity Act, and the National Continuing Health Care framework. You will also oversee the safety of vulnerable adults, adhering to the West Yorkshire Multi Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures and the operational guidance of Adults and Health. This role is based within Adults and Health. Role Description Ensure teams have the skills and confidence to meet all statutory responsibilities and to assess eligibility for provision under the Care Act, S117 after Care (Mental Health Act), the Mental Capacity Act or the National Continuing health care framework. Ensure the safety of vulnerable adults in line with the West Yorkshire Multi Agency Safeguarding Adults Procedures and Adults and Health operational guidance. Embed excellent practice standards to ensure consistent and confident front line social work practice is delivered across Kirklees. Working with the Head of Practice (and PSW) lead the continuous quality assurance of frontline social work practice to meet CQC Quality Assurance standards and ensure high quality, costeffective, strength-based person-centred care and support is provided. Ensure that services and support are intelligence driven and outcome focused, and that the allocation of resources is consistent, within an agreed financial envelope. Provide innovative leadership to ensure the continuous improvement and transformation of service delivery to focus on prevention, demand management, efficient processes, and improved outcomes. Responsible for developing connections with local communities and third sector organisations to support strength-based working, improve the outcomes for individuals and to collaborate around meeting the needs of the local population. Responsible for embedding cultural change to work in a strength-based, preventative way, implementing the use of digital solutions and agile working. Responsible as a budget holder within the Councils scheme of Delegation for allocated budgets, ensuring that they are used appropriately and efficiently and that there are robust and relevant monitoring systems in place. Ensuring a balanced budget and meeting any efficiency targets agreed. Responsible for workforce development and retention, including planning, training, and sufficiency. Lead service transformation and the development of specific specialised service provision. Provide expert guidance to the development of service strategies and policies that are reflective of the Councils corporate policies and behaviours. Champion the use of an agreed commissioning discipline. Contribute to line of sight from strategic intent to practical delivery of good social care practice. Articulate the impact of social care practice in the experience of adults with social care needs. Support a culture of high expectations in social care practice that is fully embedded and can be articulated clearly at all levels in a way that is meaningful and understood. Support a culture of transparency where challenge and scrutiny are embraced as an opportunity to learn and improve practice. Contribute to a service framework for monitoring achievement of desired impact and a feedback loop to strategy and policy framework. Work in partnership with public and statutory agencies to support jointly commissioned outcomes. Significantly contribute to a defined work programme with healthcare partners that results in a more integrated and cost-effective set of delivery arrangements to support acute sector flow.