National Workforce Delivery Lead

Job Title: National Workforce Delivery Lead

Department: Workforce Delivery

Hours: Full time (36 hours per week) and part-time applicants will be considered

Job Status: Permanent

Location: Homebased with national travel as required

Salary: £50,311.15 per annum

Closing Date: 10 March 2025

Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.

Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a National Workforce Delivery Lead to join our Workforce Delivery team. The Workforce Delivery team is a national team supporting improvement activity across several workforce topics through collaboration and innovation. These topics range from commissioner workforce and individual employers through to delegated healthcare and the workforce supporting autistic people and people with a learning disability. This role provides the opportunity to make a real difference at a national level to support the strategic vision of the future workforce. We know we need to do things differently with ever increasingly complex care, shaping new models of care and ways of working to enable people to live good lives, connected to their communities in a place they call home.

You will work with colleagues across the organisation and externally with a range of stakeholders such as government, sector bodies, individual employers, people who draw on care and support and care providers to plan, develop and deliver an agreed programme of multiple projects to support the future workforce vision, bringing social care practice specialism and expertise from across the breadth of social care.

You will be flexible and dynamic bringing thought leadership, creativity, and passion to drive new and emerging innovation into tangible action for strategic workforce change, ensuring the continued profile of Skills for Care as a workforce sector lead, supporting future workforce development, new models of care and strategic direction.

If you are interested in these roles, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.

Please note that we expect to have multiple roles available from 1st April 2025, on both a permanent and fixed term basis. Whilst all applications made up to the closing date will be considered, candidates are encouraged to apply early as we will be actively shortlisting and interviewing during the advertising period.

At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website.

At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.

Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.

Information about reasonable adjustments

We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.

Please contact our People Team via email (recruitment@skillsforcare.org.uk) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.