Head of In-House Services

Integrated Care System; Huddersfield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in adult social care is seeking a visionary Head of In-House Services to lead a diverse portfolio and drive quality improvements in Kirklees. This role involves strategic leadership, budget management, and fostering a collaborative culture to enhance service delivery. Join a committed team dedicated to ensuring high standards of care and making a tangible impact in the community.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Supportive leadership team

Comprehensive staff benefits

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in adult social care.
• Up-to-date knowledge of legislative and regulatory standards.
• Expertise in performance management and service transformation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead high-quality in-house adult social care services.
• Ensure compliance with CQC and regulatory standards.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement in service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

Regulatory Compliance

Strategic Thinking

Job description

Are you a passionate leader with a commitment to delivering high-quality care? Were looking for a visionary Head of In-House Services to lead our internal provider services and shape the future of adult social care in Kirklees.

Main duties of the job

What Youll Be Doing:

• Lead and manage a diverse portfolio of in-house services including residential care, day services, and enablement.
• Ensure services are person-centred, safe, and compliant with CQC standards.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation across all in-house provision.
• Champion a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and inclusive approach to care.
• Collaborate with partners to deliver integrated, community-focused services.
• Manage budgets effectively and ensure efficient use of resources.
• Lead workforce development, recruitment, and retention strategies.

What Were Looking For:

• Proven leadership experience in adult social care or related services.
• Strong understanding of regulatory frameworks and quality standards.
• Excellent people management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of service transformation.
• Commitment to co-production, inclusion, and safeguarding.

About us

Why Kirklees?

Kirklees is a place of ambition and opportunity. As Head of In-House Services, youll join a supportive leadership team committed to innovation, quality, and improving lives. We offer hybrid working, a collaborative culture, and the chance to make a lasting impact.

Ready to lead the future of in-house adult social care? Apply now to become our next Head In-House Services and help shape a stronger, more inclusive Kirklees.

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.

Job responsibilities

Manage and lead the cost-effective delivery of high-quality in-house adult social care provision:

- In-house bed-based services supporting intermediate care, recovery and rehabilitation

- In-house residential homes for people with learning disabilities

- In-house re-ablement and home support

- In-house day services

Embed and oversee the quality standards and assurance of frontline care practice across providerservices so that regulatory, inspection and practice standards are consistently met. Beaccountable for regulated care compliance across all in-house services, ensuring readiness forQCQ inspection and internal quality frameworks.Innovative leadership to ensure continuous improvement and transformation to focus on improvedoutcomes, efficient processes, and demand management.Responsible for developing partnership, community and third sector collaborative.Responsible for embedding cultural change to implement strengths-based practice across providerservices.Responsible for workforce development, including planning, training and sufficiency. Ensureworkforce planning reflects future service models and supports resilience, retention andsuccession planning.Provide leadership, management, and the development of specific specialised person-centredservice provisionProvide expert guidance to the development of service strategies and policies that are reflective ofthe Councils corporate policies and behaviours.Champion the use of an agreed commissioning discipline.Contribute to line of sight from strategic intent to practical delivery of good social care practiceArticulate the impact of social care practice in the experience of adults with social care needs.Support a culture of high expectations in social care practice that is fully embedded and can bearticulated clearly at all levels.Support a culture of transparency where challenge and scrutiny are embraced as an opportunity tolearn and improve practice. Use data and intelligence to drive performance improvement, support benchmarking and ensuredemonstrable impact on outcomesContribute to a service framework for monitoring achievement of desired impact and a feedbackloop to strategy and policy framework.Work in partnership with the Head of Commissioning to ensure in-house services are designed,delivered and continually reviewed to meet current and emerging population needs andcommissioning intentions.Work in partnership with public and statutory agencies to support jointly commissioned outcomes.Embeds a culture of safeguarding and positive risk taking.Lead on the redesign of in-house services to optimise outcomes, integrate with health partnersand support the strategic shift to prevention and independence.Significantly contribute to a defined work programme with healthcare partners that results in amore integrated and cost-effective set of delivery arrangements.Lead operational readiness and resilience planning, including for winter pressures, surge capacityand business continuity.

Person Specification

Experience

• Up-to-date knowledge of external issues (legislative, regulatory, best practice standards etc.) that affect adult social care provision. (Essential)
• Significant level of senior level leadership experience in an adult social care environment, providing depth and breadth of knowledge to act with credibility at this level. (Essential)
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills and the ability to build relationships at a political, senior and management level. (Essential)
• Ability to lead, manage and develop a team or provide technical leadership through a matrix structure. (Selection Process)
• Substantial experience providing a depth and breadth of knowledge across an organisation; organisation subject matter expert in own specialist area. (Essential)
• Excellent people leadership skills and strong sense of doing what is right for residents. (Selection Process)
• Understanding of wider issues in local government, partner organisations, public and private sector. (Essential)
• Demonstrable commitment to performance management and productivity to meet the councils priorities. (Selection Process)
• Ability to demonstrate strategic capability and capacity. (Selection Process)
• Committed to and champions Diversity and Inclusion. (Selection Process)
• Committed to and Champions Safeguarding. (Selection Process)
• Demonstrates a flexible, creative, and innovative solutions focused approach. (Selection Process)
• Substantial experience that demonstrates financial acumen. (Selection Process)
• Understanding that commercial and entrepreneurial acumen will be increasingly expected and commitment to develop this. (Selection Process)
• Ability to challenge appropriately at all levels and in a range of forums. (Selection Process)
• Accepts this post is politically restricted. (Essential)
• Accepts an enhanced DBS check is required. Please note that a conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process. (Essential)
• Experience of leading services through quality/regulatory inspection or equivalent assurance processes (Desirable)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.