Head of Service

**We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.**

**Organisation**
- Kirklees
- **Directorate**
- Adults & Health
- **Service Area**
- Communities and Access Service
- **Hours**
- 37
- **Number of Jobs**
- 1
- **Location(s)**
- Kirklees (Hybrid Working Available)
- **Position type**
- Permanent
- **Grade**
- 18 - 19
- **Salary**
- £60,537 - £70,791
- **Join Us as Head of Neighbourhoods and Partnerships**:
**Interviews will take place on the 29th & 30th of July.**

Are you passionate about transforming lives through early intervention? This role focuses on creating sustainable, community-based solutions that support adults, families and communities to live healthier, more independent lives for longer

**What You’ll Be Doing**:

- Develop and implement a targeted prevention strategy.
- Lead transformation programmes focused on early intervention/ prevention and reducing demand on formal services across adults, children’s and health services.
- Champion a whole-family, whole-community, whole-life, whole system approach to service design.
- Promote trauma-informed, strengths-based, and restorative practices.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement i.e. Councils role within Integrated Neighbourhood Health teams
- Oversee key services including support to carers, co-production, and community and safeguarding partnership working.
- Use intelligence-led decision-making to drive service improvement and operational excellence.
- Collaborate with partners across social care, health, education, and the voluntary sector to deliver jointly commissioned outcomes.
- Manage budgets effectively and ensure cost-efficient service delivery.

**What We’re Looking For**:

- A strategic, experienced leader with a strong track record in social care (adult and/or children’s) health or/or community services.
- Excellent people leadership and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Deep understanding of prevention, early intervention, and community-based service models.
- Experience working across both Adults and Children’s services.
- Proven ability to lead system-wide transformation and partnership working.
- Financially astute with strong change management and innovation capabilities.
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, safeguarding, and co-production with communities.
- Politically aware and confident working in a complex, multi-agency environment.

**Why Kirklees?**

Kirklees is a place of ambition and opportunity. As Head of Neighbourhoods and Partnerships, you’ll join a forward-thinking leadership team committed to improving lives through innovation, collaboration, and community empowerment.
- Head of Prevention
- Strategic Lead - Early Intervention
- Service Manager - Community Wellbeing
- Head of Adult / Children’s Social Care
- Head of Community Services
- Director of Prevention and Wellbeing
- Head of Access and Inclusion
- Strategic Lead - Children’s and Adults Prevention Services

**BENEFITS**

Our employees are at the very heart of the services we provide to the community, to help us achieve our ambitions, we want the best possible team. In return, we will make sure you are rewarded with a great range of staff benefits to support you in and out of work.

**JIll Greenfield**is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.**

- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Closing date**

21 July 2025, 11:55 PM