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SalaryThis role is an integral part of the Adult Social Care, bringing together our quality assurance, Safeguarding and workforce development functions. Working the Assistant Directors across the department and supporting the Senior Leadership Team to deliver Adult Social Care’s vision and values that have been co-produced with our residents and partners.
You will be responsible for coordinating between strategic leaders, the Principal Social Worker and operational colleagues to ensure that we have a high quality and supported workforce, with the skills, knowledge, and experience to meet our current and future challenges, building on the strengths of our residents and the resources of our community. Leading our strategic and operational approaches to safeguarding, making sure if is everyone’s business, ensuring that resident’s safety is maintained and so is their independence and their human rights.
You will lead our work to coordinate extensive quality assurance and best practice initiatives across internal and external provision within Adult Social Care. You will ensure a strengths-based approach permeates decision making at all levels, and that a culture of reflective learning and improvement is developed and embedded.
You will lead the delivery and development of transformative, innovative and improved services, created by the principles of co-production and engagement. This includes the maximisation of digital solutions, taking a proactive role in engaging and influencing partners across Health and Social Care, and the private and voluntary sectors, to maximise opportunities to enable adults to live independently and exercise choice and control over their lives. Lead on developing partnerships networks and relationships with stakeholders to deliver models of care and drive efficiencies.
As the Assistant Director responsible for Quality, Safeguarding and Workforce, it is essential that the approaches of each of these important business units are aligned in a collaborative and coordinated way to ensure that our approach is aligned to our corporate vision and strategies, and meets the needs of our residents and staff.
For further information regarding the posts please contact George Roscoe Deputy Director for Assurance, Strategy and Improvement via email: george.roscoe@islington.gov.uk
Closing date: Sunday 4th February 2024 at 23:59
Interview date: Tuesday 20th February 2024
As part of the Senior Management Team in Adult Social Care you will help lead on the delivery of the vision for Adult Social Care: For Islington to be a place made up of strong, inclusive and connected communities, where regardless of background, people have fair and equal access to adult social care support thatenables residents to live healthy, fulfilling and independent lives.
Your leadership will ensure that we do this by working with residents and partners to enable new ways of working in the following areas:
- Prevention and Early Intervention - Working proactively to build on residents' skills, resilience and capacity to make positive and sustainable changes
- Problem Solving at the first point of contact – Highly skilled staff utilising a strengths-based approach to ensure a proportionate enabling solutions and support
- Outcome focused short term interventions – A focus on maintaining or improving independence by initiating short term creative interventions
- Responding to complex needs – Holistically managing complex situations to achieve the best life outcomes for the vulnerable residents
- As a member of the council’s management team, to contribute proactively to the collective leadership for the council, working collaboratively with Members, services across the council, partners and stakeholders to deliver the council’s objectives and
- To drive positive cultural change, embodying and promoting the values and behaviours of the council and empowering staff to reach their full potential. Ensure that the performance and development framework is effective for all You will be committed to the strength-based practice model, with a person-centred approach, promoting independence, community connection and measurable outcomes.
- You will be expected to lead on and ensure the effective implementation of corporate initiatives and transformation programmes that cut across the whole or part of the council’s activities.
- You will provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure effective delivery of services, and work as part of the senior leadership team to promote a culture of collaboration, empowerment and efficiency.
- To manage people, delegated budgets and other resources, utilising them innovatively and creatively to improve service outcomes, ensuring expenditure is contained within cash limited budgets, that risk and need are balanced and ensuring that timely corrective action is taken to deal with any variances that arise.
- Ensure the service complies with the Council’s corporate governance including risk management, performance monitoring, information governance, and staff supervision and performance management.
- Comply with all resource and finance governance processes, cost controls and income maximisation in an ever-changing environment, fluctuating demands and priorities.
- To ensure ASC has effective systems for managing value for money and risk management, business continuity arrangements, commissioning plans, business planning, change management and contract management processes required to deliver high quality, cost effective, transformed and modernised services that meet the needs of our residents and help drive the quality and improvement required in readiness of the new CQC inspection regime.
- At all times to carry out responsibilities/duties within the framework of the Council's Dignity for all Policy. (Equal Opportunities Policy).
- Ensure legal, regulatory and policy compliance under GDPR, Health and Safety and in area of your specialism identifying opportunities and risks and escalating where appropriate.
- Ensure the development and delivery of continuous improvements in all aspects of the service.
- Lead the delivery and development of transformative, innovative and improved services, created by the principles of co-production & engagement. This includes the maximization of digital solutions, taking a proactive role in engaging and influencing partners across Health and Social Care, and the private and voluntary sectors, to maximise opportunities to enable adults to live independently and exercise choice and control over their Lead on developing partnerships networks and relationships with stakeholders to deliver models of care and drive efficiencies.
- Lead and be responsible for the quality of care across the Service, ensuring high standards of practice, including compliance with statutory frameworks such as Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults framework and protocols, the Mental Health Act and the Quality Assurance Framework.
- To lead on the delivery of the Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy, ensuring we have a strong, confident and skilled workforce, fit for now and the future. Providing all our people the opportunity to develop their skills and confidence to do their best work to the highest standards and to continuously learn and strive to improve.
- Accountable for raising quality standards and practice across the ASC function to deliver the best outcome for residents through monitoring, auditing and reporting to achieve continuous learning and practice improvement. Implementing changes and continually evaluating the service to improve the area of work, while maintaining continuous delivery of the highest possible levels of service quality.
- Oversee the collection and collation of performance, activity and quality data to facilitate the production of accurate, informative and timely performance reports to be prepared to meet departmental, corporate, partnership, and government requirements. Lead on the analysis of performance and take appropriate action when targets are unmet or performance is unsatisfactory, including the delivery of remedial action plans.
- Ensuring staff are supported and developed to manage their careers successfully and to enable and empower them to deliver improved outcomes for residents.
- Ensure that strategic objectives are reflected throughout service development and policy formation, and align with the relevant outcomes frameworks, legislation, regulations and best practice locally and nationally, supported by appropriate partnership governance
- Ensure the necessary standards relating to safeguarding best practices/protocols are effectively communicated, monitored and maintained. To ensure that policies, systems, practices and supports are in place and complied with to enable the Council its partners and the Islington Safeguarding Adults Partnership Board to deliver effective adult safeguarding, MCA and Liberty Protection Safeguard arrangements in Islington.
- To ensure Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR) are conducted in line with statutory requirements. To ensure that learning from SAR’s is embedded in practice and informs policy and practice developments.
- Write complex reports and present these in a range of formal settings when required, as well as to be able to present and explain highly complex reports to internal and external
- Committed to the Council’s CARE values and ASC principles to demonstrate this commitment in the way duties are carried out.
- Committed to tackling inequalities and improving access to services, increasing support for people with the highest levels of need.
- Chair meetings, including inter-agency, multi-disciplinary meetings and Partnership Boards as required.
- Achieve agreed service outcomes and outputs, and personal development targets, as agreed with your supervisor.
- Ensure that duties are undertaken with due regard and compliance with the Data Protection Act and other legislation.
- Carry out duties and responsibilities in accordance with the Council’s Health and Safety Policy and relevant Health and Safety legislation
- Follow the Pan London Safeguarding Adults procedures to investigate and manage risk where individuals have experienced or are likely to experience significant harm.
