Sheffield is a brilliant city – resourceful, inventive, welcoming – a place rooted in its history and ambitious for the future. It’s a place full of potential and we are determined to create a council that works in partnership with residents, communities, and partners to unleash that potential.
Here in Sheffield, we’re determined to give every resident a better quality of life. We want to end inequality, increase early intervention, and give people more opportunity to live at home. The living and ageing well programme plays a huge part in this by supporting older adults and people living with dementia, including those returning from hospital requiring short term support. In this key operational role, you’ll lead and shape the programme, guiding large teams, delivering effective services, and managing sizeable budgets.
Drawing on your ability to energise and inspire, you’ll introduce an integrated community wellbeing model, which provides seamless support and reduces the need for care. It’s a chance to re-think and co-produce better services that enable people to remain at home, where they want to be.
This challenge calls for a senior leader with experience in leading operational health or social care services. Degree-educated (or equivalent), you’ll be a registered social worker or health and care professional, who can lead short term intervention services, commissioned services and directly provided, regulated CQC care services. For these services, you will maintain quality service performance and grade.
Crucially, you can also develop integrated ways of working, secure value for money and connect quickly with people. You listen to what others think and build solutions accordingly.
With your grip of strategic, tactical, and emotional intelligence, you’ll be the kind of collaborative and encouraging leader who embodies our ‘One Council’ approach.
Help us empower communities and deliver for the city and its amazing people. Join us in Sheffield.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
To find out more, please email janet.kerr@sheffield.gov.uk to arrange an informal discussion.
