Head of Community First

Application closing date 19/04/2023 Working Pattern Blank Salary Grade P £65,470 - £72,648 a year Contractual hours Blank Basis Blank Job category/type Social Care - Adults Attachments Blank Job description Directorate: People Services Hours: Full time Contract Type: Permanent Location: TBC, Derby Derby City Council and Derbyshire Community Health Services have recently agreed to integrate a range of services that support people to remain at home when their needs change, but also to return home following a hospital admission by receiving rehabilitation and reablement support. Both organisations have been committed to working together for a number of years and we already deliver multi-professional assessments, are flexible in how we use our workforce and we share good practice on training and development. We are now pushing forward to achieve a greater level of “joined up” care for individuals and are looking for a highly ambitious and experienced manager who can help us take our vision forward and shape our new service offer – Community First. This post is a unique position in that it will work to create and lead a unified health and social care team to provide seamless support for local people with the aim of keeping them living as independent as possible, and with good health and mental wellbeing. This includes ensuring that local people access reablement and rehabilitation support that maximises their own skills and abilities, even after a hospital or medical episode. The postholder will be responsible for a pooled budget, agreed system level outcomes and a large multidisciplinary team, including allied health professionals, care workers and social workers. You will be an excellent and experienced leader, with a good track record of transformation and operational delivery as well as being able to work across a wide range of networks, not just limited to health and social care partners, but including the voluntary and community sectors and housing organisations. On behalf of the Derby City health and care partnership, you will be expected to lead your teams to:

• Ensure more people are supported with their urgent health and care needs at home

• Ensure across Derby, there is consistent care offer with more people supported to be able to manage for longer at home.

• Reduce the referral points and processes that individuals and their families have to navigate so they only have to “tell it once”.

• Ensure the new Community First team unified, high performing and able to respond flexibly to urgent demands for health and care services.

• Harness the strengths of a wide range of professional staff to deliver the required service outcomes and increase the productivity of our teams.

This post is offered on a permanent basis and there is flexibility available for the successful applicant to be employed by either Derby City Council or Derbyshire Community Health Services. For an informal discussion about this exciting new role, please contact Kirsty McMillan, Director – NHS Integration & Prevention, Telephone 01332 642743 kirsty.mcmillan@derby.gov.uk OR Jane Warder, Divisional Director, Telephone m: 07787 261622 jane.warder@nhs.net The post involves hybrid working but candidates must be available to work flexibly within the geography of Derby and Derbyshire. As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check. All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. For reasons connected with a particular need of the Council it may be appropriate, subject to approval, to appoint to a higher point in the pay grade. Quick Tip! Remember to align your personal statement to the Essential Criteria in the Person Specification The closing date for this vacancy is 19 April 2023 at midnight. Any application forms received after the closing date will not be accepted. Interviews will take place on: 24 April 2023 Please follow this link to apply: https://beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9842-23-8176