Head of Service Neighbourhoods and Partnerships
| 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: | F0014-15855 |
Summary
The Head of Neighbourhoods and Partnerships (working across both Social Care and Communities) is a senior leadership role responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives that reduce the need for formal care and support by promoting independence, wellbeing, and early intervention. This role focuses on creating sustainable, community-based solutions that support adults, families and communities to live healthier, more independent lives for longer. You will work collaboratively with partners across health, education, voluntary sectors, and communities to design and implement innovative, evidence-based prevention service delivery improvements, as well as informing commissioning strategies. Development and implementation of a targeted prevention strategy that will identify and develop responses and approaches opportunities to improve early intervention and prevention. Integrate intelligence of risk and protective factors, information and support across the council and partners, embedding what we learn from communities and services about both when things have gone well and when they havent. Lead transformation programmes that reduce long-term demand on social care and communities through early intervention and prevention. Champion a whole-family, whole - community, whole-life, whole system approach to service design and delivery Identifies opportunities for innovation, leading a multidisciplinary team, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement, internally and externally to further develop our prevention strategy Promote trauma-informed, strengths-based, and restorative practices across the workforce. Direct responsibility for several of the councils preventative services including Carers support strategy, co production, community and safeguarding partnership Identifies risks to the successful implementation of a targeted Prevention strategy Ensures cost effective delivery of high-quality services. Supports a culture of high expectations in service delivery ensuring joined up services focused on excellence and delivering agreed outcomes Consistently applies intelligence led decision making ensuring best practice, data and intelligence are used to drive continuous improvement and operational practice Embeds a service framework for monitoring the achievement and impact of changes and ensures a feedback loop into strategy across the wider council. Embeds a partnership ethos to achieve jointly commissioned outcomes across the council and its wider partners Monitor and manage service delivery within available budgets and improvement targets Responsible for workforce development including planning, development, sufficiency, and succession planning for current and future need Effective corporate management with other Heads of Service to drive standards