Job info	Job info details
Job title	Director of Adults and Community Services
Strategic team/Directorate	Adults and Community Services
Responsible to (day to day issues)	Chief Executive
Accountable to (line manager)	Chief Executive
Salary grade	HAY608

1. Key purpose of job

• To provide strategic leadership with a unified, corporate approach and shared ownership of the overall direction and issues affecting the organisation as a whole.
• Professional responsibility and accountability for the effectiveness, availability and value for money of Adult’s Services
• To provide Commissioning and contract management and to manage the relationships between Providers, the Council and other stakeholders, alongside the statutory requirements of the role.
• To lead the strategic commissioning of relevant services for adults and ensure the needs of adults are represented corporately.
• To lead the strategic commissioning of other relevant services and corporate projects including further integration of Social Care and NHS provision.

2. Anticipated outcomes of post

• To give timely and relevant advice to managers and all Members
• To ensure that commissioning arrangements provide effective and efficient partnerships to ensure improved outcomes for adults, particularly in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults
• Corporate solutions solving problems and service delivery
• Delivery of corporate projects to agreed outcomes
• Evidence-based policy proposals that are inclusive and needs-led
• Customers/stakeholders are involved in commissioning of services
• A positive working environment
• Value for money from commissioned services (internal and external):
  • Joint accountability for budget delivery
  • Robust contractual and contract management
  • Appropriate benchmarking
  • Financial and legal compliance
  • Commercial & business culture
  • Improvements/changes delivered in tight financial constraints
  • Customer and Client focussed
• Effective relationships with key stakeholders:
  • government and government bodies
  • professional bodies and other organisations
  • motivated employees working in a structure that does not depend on direct line management, budgetary or other resource control
  • appropriate contribution to emergencies

3. List key duties and accountabilities of the post

• As an Employee of Torbay Council all roles are expected to work in a way that ensures vulnerable children and adults are safeguarded and report any safeguarding concerns in accordance with established policies and procedures. The Designated Senior Lead for Safeguarding is the Chief Executive and Director of Children’s Services.
• Responsible for the Statutory functions of Director of Adults Services, summarised as:
  • Accountability for assessing local needs and ensuring availability and delivery of a full range of local authority services
  • Professional leadership, including workforce planning;
  • Leading the implementation of standards
  • Managing cultural change
  • Promoting local assess and partnership working
  • Delivering an integrated approach to supporting communities
  • Promoting social inclusion and wellbeing

NOTE: Adult social care is a commissioned service and therefore some of the statutory functions are led by the Executive Director Operations and Finance of the Care Trust.

4. Budgetary/Financial Responsibilities of the post

• The approved 19/20 Adult Services revenue budget is £39.2m
• The 19/20 capital budget for protecting and supporting vulnerable adults is £16.9m

5. Supervision/Line Management Responsibilities of the post

• Full line Management of Commissioning Team

6. Working environment and conditions of the post

• Office working environment

7. Physical demands of the post

• Normal physical demands

8. Specific resources used by the post

• Laptop, Mobile Phone, iPad or similar

9. Key contacts and relationships

External

Partner organisations, such as ICO, NHS, other Local Authorities central government

Internal

Elected Members and officers of the Council at all levels

10. Other duties

• To deputise for the Chief Executive in their absence where necessary
• To undertake additional duties as required, commensurate with the level of the job.

Other Information

N/A

Person Specification

Note for Candidate

All Candidates

The supporting statement on your application form will be used to assess ability to meet the essential requirements of the role, so you should explain how you meet each of the numbered essential requirements within your supporting statement. In a competitive situation, the desirable criteria may be taken into consideration, so you are encouraged to show how you also meet each of the desirable criteria.

Candidates who consider that they have a disability

Reasonable adjustments will be made to the job, job requirements or recruitment process for candidates with a disability.

If you consider yourself to have a disability you should indicate this on your application form, providing any information you would like us to take into account with regard to your disability in order to offer a fair selection interview.

Where ever possible and reasonable we will make adjustments and offer alternatives to help you through the application and selection process.

If you have indicated that you have a disability on your application form you will be guaranteed an interview if you clearly demonstrate in your supporting evidence how you broadly meet the essential requirements of the role.

Job info	Job info details
Job Title	Director of Adults and Community Services
Strategic team/Directorate	Adults and Community Services

Skills and effectiveness

Essential skills and effectiveness

• Ability to build consensus, persuade, negotiate and influence without direct line management or control of resources.
• To innovate, design and implement.
• Ability to make balanced judgements between competing objectives and priorities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to use effectively a number of different leadership styles
• Ability to handle conflict and manage sensitive issues to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ability to create an environment of trust, fairness and openness.
• Ability to develop purposeful partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders.
• Significant involvement in preparing, managing and controlling substantial budgets.
• Proven contract management experience for a range of services.
• As this post meets the requirements of the Immigration Act 2016 (part 7), the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post

Desirable skills and effectiveness

N/A

Knowledge

Essential knowledge

• A thorough understanding of the issues and priorities of the service area.

Desirable knowledge

• Understanding of NHS working arrangements including the commissioning of health provision

Experience and achievements

Essential experience and achievements

• In depth experience at a senior management level of successfully managing a range of commissioned services.
• Successful programme/project delivery
• Operating successfully in a senior management level in a dynamic and complex environment.
• Experience of developing cross-sector partnerships working both as a contributor and in a leadership role.

Desirable experience and achievements

N/A

Qualifications/professional memberships

Essential qualifications/professional memberships

• A relevant qualification to degree level (or equivalent)
• A demonstrable commitment to continued personal and professional development

Desirable qualifications/professional memberships

N/A

Other requirements

Other requirements of the job role

• Demonstrates a commitment to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
• Ability to travel efficiently around the Bay/South West/UK in order to carry out duties
• Ability to accommodate unsociable hours
• Ability to accommodate on-call working
• Ability to accommodate occasional home-working