Access and Emergency Care Service Manager - Waverley Court - EDN30655 - #1695790

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Access and Emergency Care Service Manager
Citywide offices

Salary: £74,858 - £89,566
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Service Manager to support our Social Care Direct Response Team, Emergency Social Work service and Appropriate Adult service. The post-holder will have significant leadership experience and be able to demonstrate the ability to transform services and implement improvement programmes. You must be either a social worker registered with the SSSC or an occupational therapist registered with the Health Care Professions Council with an in-depth understanding of social care services.

As the HSCP prepares itself for the challenges of the future and ensures that it meets its strategic objectives, it is essential that we focus on delivering a safe, effective and responsive service. A critical element in achieving that is developing and delivering a vision for the ‘front door’ and first point of contact for service users, carers and professionals which successfully supports the wider service. This is an exciting time for the HSCP as we continue take forward a range of improvements designed to provide better outcomes or people, but also create a positive place to work.

The Access and Emergency Care Service Manager will provide a pivotal role in ensuring that we are able to deliver the ambitions that we have and remain proactive in meeting the future needs of our population.

You will have successfully led the development and implementation of service strategic plans.

You will have a sound understanding of integrated working and current social care, primary care and intermediate care agendas.

You can demonstrate an ability to make complex, contentious decisions and communicate them effectively and sensitively, managing any conflict that may arise.

You will have an ability to identify and provide innovative solutions to a variety of complex and multi-faceted service and managerial issues.

If you are looking for more information about the role, please contact Matt Kennedy, Head of Service, ************@edinburgh.gov.uk

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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