Technology-Enabled Care Strategy Lead

Consultancy.uk; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting in Sheffield is seeking a Strategic Development Lead to drive the Home First: Technology Enabled Care partnership, moving from traditional telecare to a digital, outcomes‑led care model embedded across adult social care.

You will work with Sheffield City Council, health, housing and community partners to translate strategic aims into practical pathways, referral routes and measurable benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex TEC transformation or service improvement programmes in adult social care, health, local government or related care settings.
• Good understanding of Technology Enabled Care, digital tools, remote monitoring or technology‑led prevention.
• Strong programme and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, partners, milestones and dependencies.
• Experience of supporting organisational change and embedding new ways of working with frontline practitioners and operational teams.
• Skilled at building trusted relationships with ASC team managers, social care practitioners, providers, partners, residents, families and carers.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation and communication skills, with the confidence to run workshops, briefings and practice‑focused sessions.
• Ability to translate strategic objectives into practical delivery plans, pathway changes, referral processes, training activity and measurable benefits.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem‑solving capabilities, including the ability to use data and insight to understand adoption, outcomes and operational impact.
• Collaborative, proactive and resilient, with the ability to work in a complex partnership environment where social care, health, housing and provider priorities need to align.
• Passionate about improving outcomes for people who draw on care and support, and clear that technology is valuable when it enables independence, dignity, choice and control.

Responsibilities

• Support mobilisation and implementation of Sheffield’s Home First technology enabled care partnership.
• Coordinate delivery across mobilisation, service redesign, workforce engagement, digital development and pathway adoption.
• Lead delivery of programme plans, milestones, risks and actions with clear link to outcomes.
• Embed TEC-first approach across assessment, reablement, support planning and hospital discharge.
• Help social care teams identify how care technology can improve independence, safety and wellbeing.
• Engage practitioners and managers so new pathways and tools are understood and used daily.
• Build trusted relationships with ASC teams so TEL is adopted and embedded in practice.
• Collaborate with councils, providers, health, housing and partners for integrated delivery.
• Monitor progress, adoption, resident outcomes and prevention impact.
• Address barriers to adoption including culture, process, and digital confidence.
• Support tests of change and innovation to broaden care technology beyond alarms.

Skills

TEC transformation

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Job description

PA Consulting in Sheffield is seeking a Strategic Development Lead to drive the Home First: Technology Enabled Care partnership, moving from traditional telecare to a digital, outcomes‑led care model embedded across adult social care.

You will work with Sheffield City Council, health, housing and community partners to translate strategic aims into practical pathways, referral routes and measurable benefits.