Assistant Director Adults

7 days ago

Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom Blackburn with Darwen Council Full time

Job description

** Terms & Conditions: Permanent, Full time, 37 hours per week**

** Department: Adults & Heath**

** Shortlisting date: 26th November 2025**

** Interview date: 9th December 2025**

We are looking to recruit to a brand-new key senior role who will shape and lead our adult social care and housing needs services. We are constantly striving to improve services to our residents and the role will give you the opportunity to build on our existing strong foundations and transform our models of care and support.

We are extremely proud of the recently announced outcome from the Care Quality Commission having assessed our Local Authority Adult Social Care services as good and we are now excited to move on to the next stage of our development.

** Can you help us get to outstanding?**

As an experienced senior manager you will have the ability to creatively shape and implement strategies across our health, homelessness and social care systems ,whilst managing the core business. You will have proven experience of leading your teams to ensure we thoughtfully use our resources to make a real difference to the lives of local people, addressing inequalities and taking an asset-based approach to all we do.

As an ambitious authority we plan to grow our economy and become an economic centre of activity ensuring great opportunities for our local population. Our borough is a special, warm and friendly place to live and work with a real sense of community and togetherness.

If you are considering a new challenge and are an experienced, energetic senior manager in the area of Adult Social Care, then this post could be what you have been waiting for.

You would form part of the senior team working alongside the Director of Public Health and Assistant Director for Commissioning and Independent Living Services. Reporting directly to our Strategic Director for Adults and Health (DASS), you will facilitate and promote innovation and transform the way in which we commission and deliver services using population health data and preventative approaches to inform your decision making.

If you have extensive experience of managing across a diverse and complex workforce and are experienced in partnership and multi-agency working, then this could be the post for you.

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ04433

Date posted

03/11/2025

Application closing date

24/11/2025

Location

Blackburn with Darwen

Salary

Director 2 £90,897 - £99,840 per annum

Package

Blank

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Council

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