Service Director for Integration & Collaboration

BEDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL; Bedford; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization in England is seeking a Service Director for Integration & Collaboration in Adult Social Care. The ideal candidate will have significant management experience, strong financial acumen, and hold a relevant professional qualification. You will lead key initiatives and ensure the delivery of the highest quality services within budget, supporting people to live independently. This is a full-time role with a salary range of £85,752 - £104,354.

Qualifications

• Significant adult social care management experience at a senior level.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent standard.
• Hold a suitable professional qualification related directly to the post.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for operational delivery over various areas.
• Lead on key requirements relating to adult social care.
• Ensure services are delivered within budget and to policies.
• Act as a professional lead on all matters within a portfolio of responsibility.

Job description

Bedford Borough Council

Adult Services

Service Director for Integration & Collaboration, Support Services (Finance), Adult Social Care & Regulated (In House) services

Salary: £85,752 - £104,354 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Bedford Borough Council is seeking an exceptional senior leader to complement its new innovative structure.

We believe that collaboration is key by providing effective, strategic, and operational leadership and management, to deliver innovative, efficient, and impactful services with the highest standard of service delivery.

We are seeking an inspirational, highly motivated, enthusiastic leader, with a clear vision and unrelenting commitment to support people to have choice and control over their lives, with a focus on living as independently as possible. Reporting to the Executive Director of Adult Services, you will have significant adult social care management experience at a senior level, be innovative, have strong financial acumen, be educated to degree level or equivalent standard, and hold a suitable professional qualification related directly to the post.

You will be a key lead and active contributor in the continued evolution of integrated services and be accountable for development, performance and shift in culture towards greater integration and collaboration. Accountable for providing strategic leadership for operational delivery over a range of areas, you will lead on key requirements relating to adult social care, ensuring services are delivered within budget and to council and national policies and frameworks, with a commitment to delivering the highest quality of service within available resources.

Acting as a professional lead on all matters within a portfolio of responsibility, this exciting position is responsible for a range of Council services that includes, but is not limited to:

• Health and Social Care Integration and Collaboration – including joint working on pooled better care fund
• Statutory social work-related team responsibility (Hospital S/W Team- Home First), Physical Disability Team, Sensory Services, Occupational Therapy.
• A range of CQC Regulated in-house directly provided care services
• Adult Social Care Finance Assessment services; Direct Payments, Financial Protection, provider payments.

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Closing Date: 22 August 2025

Virtual Stakeholder Panel: 4 September 2025

Member Panel Interviews at Borough Hall: 11 September 2025