Assistant Director Adult Social Care

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: SMT2 - £104,187

**Hours Per Week**: 36

**Base Location**: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH

**Assessment Date**: 3rd April 2025

**The Role**

We’re looking for a new Assistant Director Adult Social Care who will work closely with the Director of Adults (DASS) and colleagues across the Health and Social Care System. You will continue to develop and embed integrated neighbourhood working, a whole system approach to prevention and supporting people to live well at home for longer.

Ongoing priorities for Adult Social Care include:

- Delivering effective & efficient integrated health and social care across Tameside
- Strengthening the focus on wellbeing, including greater focus on prevention, early intervention and population health
- Continuing to redress the balance of care to move it closer to home where possible
- Supporting the closure of the health inequalities gap within Tameside
- Harnessing the breakthrough opportunities of digital technology for enhancing existing services to give better outcomes to residents and improved value for money
- Improve Social Care Outcomes through ambitious Commissioning Strategies which enables people to live more independent healthier lives longer.
- Shaping the way we commission to deliver sustainable high quality adult social care services supporting people to live well at home.

**About You**

You’ll need to show you can drive ongoing service improvement with challenging oversight, under pressure and putting our residents first. We want calm leadership, constancy of purpose, resilience, robustness, drive and excellent people and partnership skills. You will have extensive leadership experience at senior management level, and in depth understanding of local authority adult social care. We’ll focus more on your skills, experience and capacity to lead a clear, but demanding agenda within a highly political environment.

In Tameside we recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.

At Tameside you’ll find the support and team to help you flourish.

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This is a politically restricted post.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number: DPT651