Service Director Integration & Collaboration

Bedford Borough Council; Bedford; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A local government organization in Bedford is looking for a senior leader in adult social care management to provide strategic leadership and ensure effective service delivery. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in adult social care, with a focus on integration and collaboration. Responsibilities include oversight of various statutory services and budget management. Closing date for applications is 22nd August 2025.

Qualifications

• Significant adult social care management experience at a senior level.
• Innovative leader with a strong commitment to integration and collaboration.
• Suitable professional qualification related to adult social care.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop integrated services for adult social care.
• Ensure services are delivered within budget and comply with policies.
• Accountable for performance and cultural shifts towards greater integration.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Financial acumen

Collaboration

Effective management

Education

Degree level education or equivalent

Job description

Overview

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.

Portfolio Responsibilities

• 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.

Closing Date: 22nd August 2025

Interview Dates

• Virtual Stakeholder Panel: 4 September 2025
• Member Panel Interviews at Borough Hall: 11 September 2025