Group Manager - Prevention and Wellbeing

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37 hours per week

We're looking for a high performing, value based and motivated senior manager to join us in Bridgend County Borough Council to lead and manage our award-winning prevention and well-being services.

Working closely with the Corporate Director of Social Services and Well-being, the Council's senior officer team, and key partners in leisure, culture, the third sector and community, the Group Manager for Prevention and Well-being will lead and manage a varied and interesting portfolio of services including:

Leisure services and healthy living, including the contractual arrangements with the Council's highly performing healthy living partner, Halo

Cultural services, including library provision, arts and creative industries including the contractual arrangements with the Council's highly performing cultural trust partner, Awen.

Play sufficiency, sports development, school and community wellbeing programmes and the active Bridgend Strategy.

Relationships with the third sector, including Bridgend Association of Voluntary Organisations, and individual third sector contracts that promote wellbeing.

Adult and young carers, including the contractual arrangements for information, advice and assistance for unpaid carers.

Place based preventative approaches including local community co-ordination and community navigators who mitigate the need for statutory services.

Asset based community development and integrated community hubs.

Bridgend's Age Friendly Communities and Ageing Well Strategies.

We are a reflective organisation that continuously builds on its strengths and is committed to the principle that the most effective way of improving outcomes for all adults, children, young people and families is through the provision of accessible, universal prevention and wellbeing services.

Working in an ambitious and supportive environment where staff feel valued is what you can expect with Bridgend County Borough Council as your employer.

For further information on this role please contact Claire Marchant, Corporate Director of Social Services and Wellbeing - claire.marchant@bridgend.gov.uk

Bridgend County Borough boasts thriving communities that live and work in the busy market towns of Bridgend and Maesteg and the coastal town of Porthcawl. We have excellent schools and public services. The cities of Cardiff and Swansea are easily accessible. Our county borough is a great place to live, work, study, visit and relocate. A relocation package up to £8,000 will be considered for this post.

The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

Under the provisions of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 this post is designated as politically restricted.

Closing Date: 01 May 2024

Shortlisting Date: 07 May 2024

Interview Date: 24 May 2024

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