Head of Service Opportunities, Suffolk County Council
Suffolk County Council
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Dear Colleague
It is my absolute pleasure to introduce you to Suffolk County Council and I am delighted you are interested in developing your career with us. We have an exciting career opportunity as our new Head of Home First & Integrated Reablement Service.
This post is based in the Adult and Community Services (ACS)directorate in Ipswich and offers you the opportunity to contribute to the effective leadership of high-quality services that deliver better outcome for the people of Suffolk.
The Home First Service provides domiciliary care in individual’s homes seven days a week for extended hours, this includes short term enablement planning and delivery, functional assessment and ongoing care when this cannot be provided by local homecare providers (Provider of Last Resort). The service includes an out of hours service.
The Home First Service is essential to providing customers with information on personal budgets, direct payments, digital care and community services and supports living independently and safely at home.
Suffolk is a county of contrasts, from urban to rural, from wealthy to more deprived areas. We are determined that our work as a high performing County Council will help us recover strongly from the pandemic. We have further developed our strong collaborative relationships across the West Suffolk Alliance and together we have the opportunity to develop and build better adult health and social care services in Suffolk.
I would be proud to recommend Suffolk County Council to you as a place to work and contribute. And I would be equally proud to show you what a great place Suffolk is to live, visit and do business.
To start a conversation, in the first instance please speak with Mark Bearn or Laurence Wolahan at HAYS.
I look forward to reading your application.
Best Regards,
Georgia Chimbani
Director of Adult and Community Services
Suffolk County Council
About us
Suffolk County Council is proud to be an employer of choice. We offer a fantastic working environment, great flexible working options and many benefits, as well as the opportunity to improve the lives of Suffolk residents.
Find out more about working for Suffolk, including our inclusive policies and benefits here
Our WE ASPIRE staff values
The WE ASPIRE values set behavioural standards which reflect the quality work that we do every day. It clarifies the behaviours the council expects from everyone, regardless of who they are, what their role or grade is or where they work. This also extends to our employees who volunteer within the Council, chosen charity and or wider community.
The WE ASPIRE values were refreshed and reviewed based on the feedback and input from the employees at Suffolk County Council - it has not been shaped by a management committee. They define us and help make us outstanding at what we do.
Our Customer Commitment sits alongside and reinforces these standards further by setting out our strong commitment to serving our customers.
Our WE ASPIRE values are:
- Wellbeing
- Equality
- Achieve
- Support
- Pride
- Inspire
- Respect
- Empower
Find out more about our values here
Our Council, Plans and Priorities
We want people to know what we’re working to achieve and how we will measure our success.
Our current plans and priorities are focused on economic growth that everyone can benefit from, improving health, care and wellbeing and efficient and effective public services.
Learn more about the Council and our ambitions for Suffolk by clicking on the links below:
About Suffolk
Why Suffolk?
Only an hour outside London, Suffolk is increasingly attracting talented people choosing to move away from London to live and work in a county that can offer lively and thriving urban and market towns alongside rural and coastal villages. Here is a lifestyle that offers choices and a great place to live, low cost housing across the county, good schools, plenty of opportunities for both cultural and outdoor activities and strong, safe communities.
Suffolk has beautiful villages, a stunning coastline, charming country houses and remarkable landscapes. Read on to find out more about this picturesque county…
Lowestoft is the first place in the country to greet the sun, being the most easterly point in the UK.
Suffolk boasts 12 National Trust sites, 8 English Heritage sites and over 60 nature reserves (including RSPB Minsmere) for you to explore and enjoy.
Suffolk is one of the UK’s greenest and safest counties. We boast competitively priced housing, quality local produce, food and drink festivals, plus many fine restaurants and historic country parks.
Framlingham Castle, one of the many in Suffolk, was once a fearsome fortress, and where Mary Tudor was proclaimed Queen of England. It recently drew attention for inspiring Ed Sheeran’s chart topping single ‘Castle On The Hill’.
We regularly host some of the best music in the UK. The yearly Latitude festival showcases the biggest names and is attended from far and wide.
We have over 400 educational facilities in Suffolk – over half are currently rated as either ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.
We have an estimated number of 137,053 living in Ipswich and 752,691 overall in Suffolk.
Suffolk has a 50-mile stretch of heritage coastline and has many Areas of Outstanding National Beauty (AONB).
As well as the cost, there is an untouched rural landscape across the county, excellent for walkers and cyclists. Did you know? Suffolk’s landscapes were the focus for many of artist John Constable’s most famous works.
Find out more about Suffolk
Visit the following sites to learn more about living in Suffolk:
How to apply
We want to make the process of applying for this role as straight forward as possible. To this end, we ask that your application consists of the following:
- A covering letter, no more than four pages in length which addresses and provides evidence against the criteria, set out in the Person Specification. The covering letter provides you with the opportunity to explain your motivation for applying, as well as highlighting how your experience and achievements fit with the requirements of the role. As such, it is an important part of the application process.
- A copy of your most recent and up to date curriculum vitae.
For an informal conversation about Suffolk and the roles of Head of Operations and Partnerships or Head of Home First and Integrated Reablement Services please contact Mark Bearn on M 07872 672290 E mark.bearn@hays.com of Laurence Wolahan on M 07985 443 826 or E Laurence.wolahan@hays.com
Key dates
Closing date: Sunday 2nd October
Stakeholder Panels and Panel Interview: W/C 17th October
