Adult Social Care Lead - Crisis Intervention, Safeguarding and Integrated Support

As Adult Social Care Lead for Crisis Intervention, Safeguarding and Integrated Support, you will oversee short term interventions and out of hours safeguarding, mental health and crisis response, stabilising situations and reducing risk to prevent avoidable hospital admissions. You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, promote strengths based, person centred practice, and hold strategic responsibility for safeguarding assurance across adult social care. Reporting to the Associate Director for Adult Social Care Operations, you will also oversee transformational change, manage significant budgets, and build partnerships across health, emergency services and the wider system.,

• supporting young people with problems
• providing a chance to talk about any problems
• giving information, advice, practical help and support in your home
• helping people to share concerns about a child or adult's safety or welfare with the right people
• helping with information about local nurseries, childminders, playgroups, parent and toddler groups, and short breaks for children with special needs
In addition to supporting families we have a duty to protect children and young people who are at risk of neglect or abuse and support them if a court decides they can no longer remain with their own family. Jobs and careers We are incredibly proud of our council and the borough it serves; it's a unique and very special place. We know that if you come and join us you'll receive a warm welcome, work with some very loyal and committed colleagues and contribute positively to making life better for our residents, businesses and visitors.

We are looking for a qualified Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, registered with Social Work England or the HCPC, with significant senior management experience in a complex, multidisciplinary organisation. You will bring demonstrable experience of crisis intervention, safeguarding or urgent and short term care pathways, ideally including hospital avoidance, reablement, MASH or out of hours provision, together with a track record of overseeing service transformation, managing budgets and demand, and turning strategy into effective operational delivery. You will be a credible, resilient and politically astute professional, an effective communicator and influencer who can build trust across organisational boundaries and with elected members.

Dudley Council is building a modern, community-focused and financially sustainable organisation, with collaboration, accountability and better outcomes for residents at its heart. For Adult Social Care, this is an opportunity to help shape services at a time of change - strengthening safeguarding, developing more integrated approaches to crisis intervention and creating services that support people to live safely and independently.