About this job
As the Head of Access and Enabling Independence you will be a key member of the Adult Social Care Leadership Team, reporting into the Operational Director Adult Care and Support.
In this role you will be key to ensuring the effective operation of our adult front door be it via the community or hospital and services that enable independence such as Reablement, Occupational Therapy and the Sensory Team.
You will be leading on the review of pathways into social care, ensuring our services fully leverage new ways of working and strength based practice, optimising reablement, and integrating new technologies.
Special requirements for this post
You will need to be registered with Social Work England or HCPC and have an enhanced DBS check
About you
You will be an experienced adult social care professional with a track record of working in and managing adult social care operational services. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, sustainable adult services, and want to make a meaningful impact on our community. Join us in shaping and living our adult social care vision for adult social care of “Living save, happy, healthy lives”.
About us
This is an exciting time to join our Adult Care and Support leadership team we are just implementing our vision to enable those who receive services to live safe happy healthy lives. We have a motivated and stable workforce and as a leadership team want to continue to harness talent and support our workforce to continue to deliver the best to our residents. Keeping up our values and quality every step of the way.
As part of our commitment to career development, internal applicants applying for this role will be provided with support on CVs/ application and interviewing techniques. This support is only available to staff who are employed by the council (permanent, temporary or fixed term). If you are interested in applying and would like to take up the offer of the support package, please email by 13th December 2024 to appointments@lbbd.gov.uk .
Please use the following link to apply: | London Borough of Barking and Dagenham