Deputy Head of Access & Safeguarding

Now Recruiting: Deputy Head of Access & Safeguarding (Adult Social Care)

£450 per day | Interim Contract

Location: Hackney

Department: Adult Social Care – Adults, Health and Integration

We’re seeking an experienced Deputy Head of Service to provide strategic and operational leadership across Adult Social Care.

In this pivotal role, you will:
✅ Drive operational quality and excellence, ensuring adults in Hackney live safely and independently through personalised, strength-based support.
✅ Provide inspirational leadership to enable teams to thrive and build strong partnerships across the Council, ICS, and community sector.
✅ Manage budgets and efficiencies, ensuring equitable, proportionate use of social care funding.
✅ Lead on collaborative projects that deliver positive outcomes for residents and strengthen the department’s reputation.

Requirements

• A degree qualification or above in either: Social Work, Social Care, Nursing, Allied Health profession or Public Health and appropriate registration
• A strong track record of delivering within a performance management culture.
• Significant and relevant managerial experience within health and social care services
• Sound experience of delivering and managing projects
• Experience of effectively managing  budgets
• Experience in change management.
• Desirable experience of working within an integrated/ multi disciplinary service setting
• Understanding of the key current policy directives for adult social care and health.
• A clear understanding of budget management and the delivery of  high quality, value for money services.

Experience

Track record of achievement at leadership level in a similarly large and complex organisation, including evidence of:

• Able to demonstrate a track record of the delivery of high quality customer services.
• Able to demonstrate a track record of applying strong analytical skills and laterally thinking to develop creative and innovative service solutions.
• Ability to apply findings from research evidence and best practice
• Able to demonstrate a track record of managing services in a manner that promotes equality of opportunity and collaborative working ; ensuring that staff are aware of the requirement to deliver non discriminatory services and to promote greater equity for disadvantaged groups.A strong track record of developing and delivering within a performance management culture.
• Ability to deliver service outcomes to agreed standards by timely and accurate recording of performance data.
• Ability to manage and direct service delivery initiatives and projects from within budget and set timescales.
• Exper
• A clear knowledge and understanding of commissioning processes in Health and Social Care.
• Experience of supporting and developing service user and carer involvement and co production.
• Experience of leadership and management ideally within a multi disciplinary setting.
• Able to demonstrate an ability to set standards for staff including clear expectations around timescales

If you’re a senior social care leader ready to make real impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact us today
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