East London Council - Head of Adult Social Care

Posted 03 September 2025
Salary Up to £750 per day
LocationEast London
Job type Temporary
Discipline Social Care
ReferenceLORNA_1756914455

Job description

Duties will include to;

* Act as a place-based system lead for hospital flow and discharge governance, working closely with senior system partners to deliver an established improvement programme.
* Support the UEC system through winter pressures, and to act as a senior escalation point and decision maker.
* Cross-organisational working to lead the mobilisation of ICB Physical Capacity Funding schemes for 2025/26, including ward based reablement.
* Working at a senior level with system partners to develop alternative pathways for intermediate care.
* Overseeing the delivery of several high-profile ASC transformation projects already underway, including the reablement transformation programme, front-door transformation and strengths-based practice implementation.
* Overseeing the delivery of remaining savings from the 2025/26 MTFS schemes aligned to OPD
* Leading and influencing wider improvement work - guided by the Transformation and Improvement Board (NTIB) and the Practice Improvement Board (PIB)
* Leading service-level responses to the pending CQC outcome and associated improvement actions
* Ensuring good operational performance is maintained and delivery against departmental KPIs
* Providing support to the Principal OT to review future models to manage OT demand.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.