Adult Social Care Lead - Prevention, Wellbeing and Community Connection

As Adult Social Care Lead for Prevention, Wellbeing and Community Connection, you will lead the development of interventions that draw on community assets, partnerships and strengths-based practice from first contact. You will lead a multidisciplinary first response approach, ensuring timely assessment, effective triage and a consistent right response first time. You will champion a Home First philosophy that supports effective hospital discharge and recovery, strengthen access to reablement as a preventative intervention, and drive the expansion of technology enabled care across Dudley to enhance independence, safety and wellbeing.,

• 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 prevention, reablement or hospital discharge pathways, ideally including strengths based practice, community partnership working or technology enabled care, together with a track record of leading 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 is committed to creating a community-focused, financially resilient and sustainable council that delivers for its residents. This role gives you the opportunity to play a leading part in that ambition: influencing Adult Social Care at scale, shaping how services develop and helping create a system where prevention, independence and community connection are at the heart of the support people receive.