Technology Enabled Lives - Strategic Development Lead

PA Consulting; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting seeks a Strategic Development Lead to drive the Technology Enabled Care strategy with Sheffield City Council, shaping a digital, prevention-focused care model across adult social care.

The role collaborates with partners to translate strategic objectives into practical delivery plans, supporting implementation, governance and measurable benefits for residents and carers.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex TEC transformation or service improvement programmes in adult social care, health, local government or related care settings.
• Strong understanding of Technology Enabled Care, digital tools, remote monitoring or technology-led prevention.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation and communication skills with the confidence to run workshops and training sessions.

Responsibilities

• Support mobilisation and implementation of Sheffield’s Home First - Technology Enabled Care partnership with practice-based alignment to adult social care priorities and outcomes.
• Coordinate delivery across mobilisation, service redesign, workforce engagement, digital development and pathway adoption.
• Lead programme plans, milestones, risks, dependencies and actions with clear links to resident outcomes.
• Embed a TEC-first approach across assessment, reablement, hospital discharge, ongoing care reviews and prevention work.
• Identify opportunities where care technology can improve independence, safety and community connection.
• Build trusted relationships with ASC teams, managers and service leaders to ensure TEL is understood and embedded in day-to-day practice.

Job description

Technology Enabled Lives - Strategic Development Lead

• Full-time

PAbelievesin the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deepexpertisein consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teamsoperateglobally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Stuck in a rut, needing a new challenge?

PAcollaborates with Councils across the country to deliver an innovative approach to care technology services, also known as TECS. Through its strategic partnerships with Councils,PAhelps people of all ages live safer, more independent, gloriously ordinary lives in the place they call home.

We are looking for aStrategic DevelopmentLeadtoplayan important rolein the day-to-day delivery of PA’sstrategic partnership with Sheffield City Council’s Home First: Technology EnabledCare service.

The role will helpSheffieldmove from a more traditional telecare offer towards a modern, digital, preventativeandoutcomes-led modelof care technology, embedded across adult social care rather than sitting as a separate service.

Working closely with Sheffield City Council, operational partners, practitioners, providers, health, housing and community stakeholders, the successful candidatewill help make technology a routine part of assessment, reablement, support planning, hospital discharge, long-termcareand community-based support.

The focus is on changing practice so that technology helps peopleprogress towards andlive independently, stay safe, remainconnectedand exercise more choice and control over their lives.

This is a highly visible role requiring strong programme and project delivery skills, stakeholder engagement and change management experience, combined with practicalunderstandingof adult social careandTEL.The successful candidate will be comfortable working across strategic and operational levels, helping social care teams translate Sheffield’s ambitions into practical pathways, referral routes, workforce confidence, measurable benefits and better outcomes for residents,familiesand carers.

KeyResponsibilities

Support the mobilisation and implementation of Sheffield’sHome First -Technology EnabledCarepartnership, ensuring activity is rooted in adult social care practice, localprioritiesand agreed outcomes.

Coordinate delivery across workstreams covering mobilisation, service redesign, workforce engagement, digital development, pathway adoption,benefitsand partnership governance.

Lead delivery of the programme plans, milestones, risks,dependenciesand actions, with a clear link between delivery activity and outcomes for Sheffield residents.

Help embed a TEC-first approach across adult social care assessment, reablement, support planning, hospital discharge, ongoing carereviewsand prevention work.

Support social care teams toidentifywhere care technology can improve independence, safety, confidence, wellbeing, carerreassuranceand community connection.

Lead and support engagement with practitioners, operationalteamsand managers so that new pathways,toolsand referral routes are understood and used in everyday practice.

Build strong, trusted relationships with Sheffield’s Adult Social Care teams, including frontline practitioners, operationalmanagersand service leaders, soTELis understood, adoptedand embedded in day-to-day practice.

Work collaboratively with Sheffield City Council, providers, health, housing, voluntarysectorand community partners to support integrated delivery across the wider care and support system.

Monitor progress, performance and benefits, including adoption, referral flow, resident outcomes, practitioner confidence and contribution to prevention and demand management.

Identifyand address barriers to adoption, including cultural resistance, process issues, digital confidence, operational constraints and gaps in awareness or capability.

Support tests of change and innovation that broaden care technology beyond traditional alarms, including proactive,preventativeand person-centred models of support.

Experience delivering complex TECtransformation or service improvement programmes in adult social care, health, localgovernmentor related care settings.

Good understanding of Technology Enabled Care, digitaltools, remotemonitoringor technology-led prevention.

Strong programme and project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams, partners,milestonesand dependencies.

Experience of supporting organisational change and embedding new ways of working with frontline practitioners and operational teams.

Skilled at building trusted relationships withASC team managers, social care practitioners, providers, partners, residents,familiesand carers.

Excellent stakeholder engagement,facilitationand communication skills, with the confidence to run workshops,briefingsand practice-focused sessions.

Ability to translate strategicobjectivesinto practical delivery plans, pathway changes, referral processes, trainingactivityand measurable benefits.

Strong analytical,organisationaland problem-solving capabilities, including the ability to use data and insight to understand adoption,outcomesand operational impact.

Collaborative, proactive and resilient, with the ability to work in a complex partnership environment where social care, health,housingand 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,choiceand control.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so pleasedon’thesitate to apply –we’dlove to hear from you.

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