Head of Transforming Care - (21670)
Fixed Term Contract (Initially 12 months)

Salary of £70,000 to £80,000 per annum plus car allowance of £5055 per annum

Flexible Office Location: Initially based from home and then from one of our regional offices.  Plus, Brilliant benefits!

Brilliant outcomes through integrated health, housing and care.  That’s when it hits home.

Be part of something brilliant at Home Group, where clinical interventions work hand in hand with daily care and support. We’re delivering brilliant long-term outcomes for complex vulnerable people through integrating health, housing and care. You’ll be joining us on our exciting journey to become market leaders in New Models of Care.     

As Head of our Transforming Care business unit, this is a unique and exciting opportunity to really make your mark, leading our services to be well managed, efficient and safe with brilliant outcomes for our customers. You’ll drive service excellence through our Regional Transforming Care Manager and front-line operational teams who are supporting our customers. Our customer group within this business unit have a wide range of complex and interconnected needs including learning disabilities, autism, mental health conditions, personality disorder or complex physical health issues. 

As senior leader, you’ll ensure that our clinical and support practices are delivered in line with our Living Independently Feeling Enabled (LIFE) support practice model, enabling our customers to live happy and fulfilling lives. You’ll ensure the maintenance of CQC regulation within our services, complex care delivery and that performance is in line with business plan, regulatory and quality standards. Through your passion and intuitively collaborative approach, you’ll maintain good commissioner relationships and enable our Transforming Care services to continue to grow as expected with brilliant outcomes for our customers.  

You’ll be working for Nic, our Director of Clinical Practice whose passion is getting out in the country for walks with her daughter and bouncy black Labrador and small but powerful Cavapoo. She has amazing vision for developing the future of new models of care and clinical practice at Home Group and is looking for new skills and colleagues to join her and the team on this journey. 

Want to know more?

If you’re not reading this advert on our careers pages, press the apply now button to access lots of useful stuff! You’ll be able to find out more about the role in our Head of Transforming Care Job Description and about us in our candidate pack. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

A bit about you

With a proven background in leading and managing a similar complex service and diverse teams, you’ll have worked within a health or social care setting, leading front-line operational teams to deliver brilliant customer outcomes. You’ll have a clinical qualification/registration in Nursing or Allied Health, as well as a relevant master’s degree or equivalent.   

You’ll really impress us with your ability to effectively manage operational teams across multiple locations, financial and operational budget management as well as presenting to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, driving continuous improvements and innovation. You’ll also have a win-win mentality in managing a broad portfolio and be able to unleash the potential of others, making it a great place to work for our colleagues.

The role will involve regular national travel so you must be willing to travel and work from our different services and offices. We have services in Kent, Swindon, Birmingham, St Albans and Leeds with plans to grow significantly over the coming year. We’ll need you have a current driving licence and access to a car. Don’t worry, we’ll pay you expenses to cover this use!

An Enhanced Disclosure Check will be required for this role. The great news is that we'll pay for this to be done if you don't have a transferable one.    

A bit about us

We’re Home Group one of the UK’s biggest providers of high quality housing and care and support services. We have a wealth of expertise and deliver a wide range of specialist and support services to people with complex health and social care needs. We recognise the diverse needs communities have and provide a team of specialists and clinicians within our business, supporting the NHS’s commitment to improving health and wellbeing through innovative new models of care. Also did we mention that we’re number 7 in the UK’s Best Large Places to Work, 18th in Stonewall’s Top 100 employers and winners of the 2019 Skills for Care Accolades for Best Employer Support for Registered Managers. 

Working flexibly

It’s our unwritten rule that you attend the important appointments in life, be it your child’s school play, your partner’s graduation, or to get your new fridge delivered. You can elect to fit these around your working day or use your flexi to take the time off. Our focus is on getting the job done, not your working hours!  And we really mean this!

The job for you?

Great, all you need to do now is upload your CV and covering letter. Easy as that! Don’t delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! 

Be yourself at home

Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our Internal Diversity Networks (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves.  

We’re especially keen to encourage your application, if you are from a Minority Ethnic or Multicultural background (BAME), Female, if you identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBTQ+) or if you are registered or consider yourself disabled. This is because these groups are currently underrepresented amongst our colleagues.  

We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work! 

During Covid

We’re continuing to deliver services for our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our brilliant colleagues are at the very heart of making that happen. We’re doing things a little differently right now, so to keep everyone safe, we’ll engage with you digitally where possible. Check out our awesome video to find out more on how our colleagues have felt supported here during the outbreak.