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SalaryIn DHSC, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you’d like to work in, we’d love to hear from you.
All three roles sit within the friendly and supportive Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy and Capacity Division, with the Adult Social Care Group.
The division is responsible for the broader mission to ensure the care sector can recruit and retain the workforce it needs. This includes policy areas such as: care worker pay, terms and conditions, regulation, progression, international and domestic recruitment pipelines, and volunteering. Workforce is a key component of a thriving care sector that can deliver high quality care and so our policy areas touch on several cross-cutting departmental priorities, meaning our work is frequently a ministerial priority, with read-across to numerous other policy teams in the department.
1. G7 – care worker capacity assurance and monitoring
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the team responsible for monitoring care worker capacity in the sector. The team leads work to support the sector to improve recruitment and retention of care workers, which we do through working across government, with sector partners, and through delivering through a National Recruitment Campaign. Workforce capacity and growth is essential to ensure the delivery of adequate levels of care (with knock on implications for key government priorities, such as hospital discharge). This is therefore a busy and critical function within the division, with key parliamentary interest.
2. G7 - international recruitment policy
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the ASC International Recruitment Policy team as it delivers one of the Secretary of States top priorities for the care sector. This is a fast paced and busy leadership role, supporting a team dedicated to enable the care sector to recruit ethically from overseas. The team is responsible for developing policy and guidance in relation to international recruitment, including work to address unethical practice in the sector. The post holder works extremely closely with Whitehall partners and stakeholders to ensure employers are given the support they need to understand the international recruitment process, and that care workers are properly welcomed and given every opportunity to flourish.
3. G7 Senior Policy Adviser Social Work
The Regulated Professions Team supports the recruitment and retention of regulated professions in adult Social Care. The team is compromised of two G7 teams - the Nurse team and Social Work team. Both work very closely with the Chief Nurse and Chief Social Workers offices to develop joined-up policy. The current priorities of the teams are to deliver the separate social work and nurse apprenticeship funds in the 23/24 and 24/25 FYs, evaluate those funds, and prepare for the next Spending Review.
This role will lead key contractual and commercial workstreams, to ensure that we are able to deliver the funds above, and will also lead policy development related to how the social worker workforce is supported and developed in future.
