Specialist Manager - Hospitals East

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About The Role

Social Care is changing. We are looking for leaders who can take our teams through the changes with courage, ambition, and creativity.

What's in it for you:

This role is difficult to match for impact and variety. You'll find a challenging and highly rewarding career with us, where you'll have every opportunity to make a positive difference to people's lives.

You will be part of the Adult Social Care leadership team, a supportive and collaborative team with a wealth of experience.

We prioritise our workforce's wellbeing and offer hybrid and flexible working that supports a healthy work-life balance.

We celebrate and share good practice and will give you the training and development you need to excel. We are committed to supporting your continual professional development and have a comprehensive development programme whatever the stage of your career.

What you can expect to be doing:

We have a specialist manger role available with our Home First team. The team supports support Dorset residents to be discharged from hospital in a timely way, continuing assessments out in the community and enabling people to regain their independence following a hospital admission.

You will work alongside two other specialist managers in our Home First team. The work is fast paced and requires significant partnership working with hospital and community health colleagues and care providers.

These roles are key system leadership roles working across the Directorate, Council and with external partners. As a leadership team we work flexibly to move the skills and resources within the team to where they can make the most impact at the right time.

You will shape and monitor the practice within teams and support teams to deliver strength-based practice and good outcomes for people in Dorset.

You will lead teams through our transformation and redesign programmes and have a focus on performance and quality assurance.

You will ensure a team approach to problem solving and work with senior managers to ensure that the teams manage demand, have the right skills and resources to deliver our statutory responsibilities and remain within budget.

About you:

You will have significant adult care operational leadership experience with a proven track record of implementing service changes.

You will have had experience of developing and implementing successful strategies in consultation with others to develop capacity or improve service performance.

You will have substantial post-qualification experience including a detailed understanding of personalisation, care assessment and planning, (including complex casework), managing meetings, professional supervision, report writing, multi-agency working and risk assessment/management.

You will have an ability to work dynamically and flexibly in a fast-paced social care setting with experience of developing positive working relationships with external partners.

You will have budget and performance management skills, as well as people leadership skills.

Further Information

This is a role for a Specialist Manager - Leading our Home First (Hospital Discharge) Teams. The working location will be at ho spital locations in Dorset, combined with home-working.

Want to find out more?

We will be holding two informal, online information sessions on Tuesday 23 rd April from 12:00-13:00 and 17:00-18:00 via Teams . This session will allow you to meet some of the managers, learn more about the roles and to ask any questions. If you would like to sign up for this session, please send an email to [email protected] and you will be sent the link to join.

Additional information:

Interview dates: Friday 17 th May

Closing date: Tuesday 7 th May at 11pm

If you wish to discuss this opportunity, please contact Sue Evans on 01305 225155

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them. It will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check. See our policy on the employment of ex-offenders .

See our adult safeguarding policy .

About Us

We'repassionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working forus should be no exception.

At Dorset Council we:

• provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
• have ambitious aspirations
• are excited about our future
• care about Dorset and all the people who live here
• know that all roles make a difference and that our employeesare key to our success

You will:

• have access to a range of employee benefits
• be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
• have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are challenging ourselves to become a more diverse and inclusive organisation. We recognise that recruitment and inclusion of individuals with diverse skills, perspectives and backgrounds will bring real strength to the council and our communities. We have a commitment to equality and welcome applications from everyone.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria fortherole.

We are keen to make our interviews accessible. Let us know on your job application if you have a disability and need any reasonable adjustments.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours . We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

If appointed, the personal information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found at https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .

This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.

We cannot accept CVs in the place of an application form as we need the same range of information from all our candidates.

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