South Gloucestershire Council
Service Manager
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How You'll Make a Difference
As a Service Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across specialist Adult Social Care services, ensuring the delivery of high-quality outcomes while driving continuous improvement and influencing change.
Through effective collaboration, innovation, and skilled management of people and resources, you will shape services that deliver lasting benefits. By building strong relationships, setting clear priorities, and bringing diverse teams together around shared objectives, you will help create efficient, responsive, and sustainable services that support the department's wider objectives.
What You Will Be Doing
As an experienced Service Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across Hospital Social Work, Transfer of Care Hub, Assistive Technology and Occupational Therapy Housing, and Promoting Independence and Reablement services. You will lead and support teams to deliver high-quality services, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, policies, and best practice.
- Drawing on your expertise, you will shape and improve services by planning for future needs, driving innovation, and supporting prevention, independence, and positive outcomes for residents.
- You will have overall responsibility for service performance, resource management, and demand management, ensuring key targets are achieved, resources are used effectively, and complex, high-risk issues are managed appropriately.
- Working collaboratively with health partners, the voluntary sector, and colleagues across the council, you will build and maintain strong relationships that support integrated working and improved outcomes for residents.
- As a senior leader, you will provide oversight and strategic direction for safeguarding, reablement, and hospital discharge services, balancing the promotion of independence and wellbeing with effective risk management and value for money.
- Through performance reporting and the chairing of decision-making panels, you will ensure accountability, drive informed decision-making, and maintain strong safeguarding practices across all areas of responsibility.
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What We Need From You
It is essential that you are a qualified social care professional with a recognised professional qualification and degree-level education (or equivalent), together with a strong understanding of Adult Social Care, Health, and service commissioning.
- You will bring substantial senior leadership experience within adult social care and health, supported by a thorough understanding of national issues and legislative framework.
- Implementing and coordinating large, complex transformation and service improvement projects, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams to ensure delivery standards are achieved and continuous improvements are embedded across services.
- As an experienced leader, you will be skilled in creating high-performing, customer-focused services and leading organizational change within complex environments.
- We require you to have strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships at a senior level.
- You will have extensive experience of managing significant budgets, resources, and projects, ensuring services are delivered efficiently, represent value for money, and achieve positive outcomes for residents.
- It will be key for you to have a thorough knowledge of relevant legislation, regulatory requirements, and professional standards, together with a strong commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. You will also demonstrate the ability to manage highly sensitive and complex issues with professionalism and a solutions-focused approach.
What You Need To Know
- This is a 1-year limited term contract.
- We are also offering this as a secondment opportunity; please first seek your line manager's permission before applying.
- All applications will be initially reviewed, and if you are shortlisted, you will be invited to complete a psychometric assessment as part of our selection process.
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road and working from home.
- Interviews will be held on 27th August 2026.
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How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support, and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping, and leisure activities.
- We recognize that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted, and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We trust our team to work in the way that allows them to make the biggest difference, and we continue to invest in technology to help staff do their jobs to the best of their ability and celebrate innovation.
- We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers, and we are recognized for the quality, breadth, and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work, and learn here.
- We’re providing essential services across our internal network to ensure we can fully support our community.
- We’re positive and forward-thinking, always looking for new and innovative ways of working and we’re ambitious about the future.
- We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: [Service Manager Promoting Independence and Discharge Pathways - Job Description](Service Manager Promoting Independence and Discharge Pathways - Job Description)
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