Assistant Director Policy

5 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Social Work England Full time

We have been established as a successful and values driven organisation. The assistant director role is a central part of the leadership that aims to build on the platform that has now been established, to have a significant impact on the quality of social work practice in England.

The assistant director will work autonomously and alongside the executive lead team to continue to shape our leadership structure, to optimise service performance and reinforce our core values and behaviours throughout the organisation. You will play a key, visible, leadership role in delivering our statutory responsibilities, and contribute to the development and delivery of our corporate and organisational priorities.

Our assistant directors will be accountable for delivery in their own areas of the business. They will also work together in collaboration with the executive directors, ensuring the effective delivery of our statutory and strategic objectives, deputising for the executive lead team and other assistant directors as appropriate.

Together with the other assistant directors you will build a suitable structure for the organisation, executing key decisions in relation to operations and finance as well as supporting and informing strategic direction. You will also give strategic direction to our heads of and be the escalation point for risk, feeding up to the executive directors, weighing and identifying corporate risk and appropriate mitigations.

You will contribute to our focus on delivering our ambitions as a regulator, and in delivering for people, and on our commitments to equality, diversity and inclusion. The team respect differences and make decisions that benefit the organisation.

**What you will do**

**Corporate leadership**
- Deliver visible leadership of a multi-disciplinary team, developing and implementing our strategic and policy aims and objectives. Supporting, managing and providing strategic direction to heads of functions to enable them to deliver the operational objectives within their area of responsibility.
- Act decisively and make robust, unbiased decisions at a strategic level and act as decision maker for agreed areas of our statutory framework. Support heads of function in their operational decision making in their respective areas.
- Be accountable to the executive director in relation to team, directorate and corporate risk, ensuring they are appropriately addressed and are appropriately profiled and reviewed. Understand regulatory risk and the strategies that can be developed to reduce risk and prevent harm. Work alongside the executive director in ensuring that our policy and strategic activities are undertaken with this in mind.
- Identify and implement organisational changes where necessary that enhance flexibility, responsiveness and quality of service.
- Establish, build and maintain relationships with our Board and the sponsor departments, the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care, as well as other key stakeholders. Attending meetings and networks as the representative for the team, directorate and wider organisation, deputising for executive directors and other assistant directors where appropriate.
- Role model our values and behaviours, inspiring and motivating leaders and our people to achieve our strategic objectives and to achieve our ambitions as a regulator.
- Deputise for executive directors and other assistant directors as necessary.
- Demonstrate clear commitment to coproduction with our National Advisory Forum, sector representatives and those with lived experience in all aspects of your work.

**Directorate specific**
- Accountable for the strategic development, policy and new education function across the organisation providing leadership on our strategic position across regulation and social work.
- Accountable for strategic developments in relation to our performance and our impact as a regulator in qualifying education and training in social work, policy and alignment with other key national developments impacting on the social work profession.
- Play a leadership role in improving the standard and consistency of qualifying social work education and training in England.
- Accountable for leading the development of guidance and regulatory frameworks in relation to social work education, in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Work closely with and oversee the Chair of an advisory panel of experts in social work and education, including those with lived experience, to guide and shape the development and implementation of new areas of our work.
- Accountable for all inspection activity across all providers, supporting the head of education programs and ensuring fluid methodology, and interrogating and analysing intelligence, and using this to adapt and shape our approach to social work education and training as necessary.
- Lead on the delivery of high-quality authoritative publications on our findings and stra

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