Joint Assistant Director Integrated Community Support

EMAP Publishing Limited; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Torfaen County Borough Council is recruiting a Joint Assistant Director Integrated Community Support to lead the development and delivery of prevention and edge-of-acute services in South Wales.

Based at Pontypool Civic Centre, the role shapes high-performing teams across two authorities, with a commitment to tackling inequality and improving wellbeing. The post is full-time, permanent within Adults and Communities.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading complex, cross-organisational teams.
• Ability to influence and deliver place-based services.
• Understanding of wellbeing factors and prevention approaches.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop the council's support offer, focusing on targeted prevention and edge-of-acute activities.
• Build high-performing teams and oversee cross-boundary collaboration to improve outcomes.

Job description

Joint Assistant Director Integrated Community Support

Location: Civic Centre, Pontypool

Civic Centre, Pontypool 02/12/2026

Basis Full Time

Job details:
Salary £96,170 - £103,564
Joint Grade 15
Contractual hours 37
Basis Full Time
Package Permanent
Job category/type Adults and Communities
Date posted 03/11/2026
Job reference REQ006671
Attachments REQ006671 Joint Assistant Director Integrated Community Support.pdf

Job Description

Across Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent in South Wales, our councils are doing something genuinely different. As Wales's first and only federated councils, we're pioneering a new leadership model that brings two sovereign unitary authorities together around shared ambition, aligned leadership and collective impact. Both councils have also adopted the Marmot principles, embedding a clear commitment to tackling inequality, improving wellbeing and focusing on long term outcomes through everything we do.

This deliberate, innovative approach to collaboration is designed to unlock capability and influence that neither council could achieve alone. It provides unprecedented scale and mandate for action to work across two distinct boroughs, with refreshing freedom to innovate and the credibility to influence regional and national conversations about how public services evolve. And our communities welcome this new, creative approach as an excellent way to address the challenges they face.

This brand new role brings together the full range of services needed to help support people and families experiencing complex and multiple challenges. The team delivers some interventions (e.g. complex families, adult & community learning, and employability) directly, and oversees the design of other targeted prevention work across the Council.

You'll design and develop our support offer, particularly targeted prevention and 'edge of acute' activities. We're looking for person centred and place based approaches that genuinely address the complex social, economic and environmental factors affecting wellbeing, so we can support individuals and families to build resilience and achieve sustainable outcomes.

Your experience to date should include building high performing teams that work effectively across operational boundaries, and a track record of making a lasting difference to place based services. A nuanced understanding of one or more of the factors which can affect wellbeing (such as financial issues, homelessness, family breakdown, community safety and chronic health conditions) is essential. Able to influence, collaborate, and lead consistently high performance, you'll relish the chance to put your ideas to work in an enlightened and supportive environment.

How to find us

Torfaen County Borough Council

Civic Centre

Pontypool

NP4 6YB

0 Gwent St, Pontypool NP4, UK

Permanent