Asc Digital Policy Advisor - London, United Kingdom - Department of Health and Social Care

Department of Health and Social Care

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £32,188

Leeds: £32188; London: £36,244
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment:
This role is being advertised on a permanent basis. If preferable, Loan or Secondment options will also be available for existing Civil Servants (Loan) and applicants from accredited NDPBs or any other employer (Secondment).

Business area:

DHSC
Adult Social Care Group
Social Care Strategy & Reform Directorate
Type of role:
Policy
Project Delivery
Strategy
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Leeds, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

In DHSC, we are proud of our purpose - to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer.

To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values:
we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you'd like to work in, we'd love to hear from you.

This role is within the Adult Social Care Group and sits within the newly formed Innovation and Improvement Unit.

This unit seeks to support the sector and local authorities to trial, adopt and scale new approaches to planning, managing and delivering care.

This is an exciting role which offers a unique blend of policy development and project delivery, combining strategic vision setting with on the ground impact to drive real change for the people who draw on care.

New and innovative digital approaches to assessing and delivering care are increasingly critical to delivering the change and improvement needed in social care.

The ASC Digital Policy Advisor would be responsible for managing the day-to-day delivery of interventions to support the digital social care market and will support the development of long-term strategy.

This role would suit people who are comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments to build consensus and drive change across local authorities and the care market.

The role holder would be expected to support both the development of long-term digital policy and to manage day-to-day project delivery.

Job description:

This role will focus on supporting local authorities and private sector suppliers to improve the digital systems used to monitor and deliver care.

This will require the role holder to work across a complex stakeholder landscape including multiple central government departments, local government, the private sector and more to develop and deliver a set of interventions to support and improve the market delivering these systems.

The Digital Policy Advisor will be primarily responsible for the day-to-day project management and delivery of programmes in the digital social care market focusing on improving technical infrastructure.

They will also support the development of the long-term strategy for this market, through market research and analysis, building relationships with key stakeholders, and preparing materials for communication and presentation.

This is a unique opportunity in government to blend high-level, ambitious strategy setting with day-to-day project management and delivery.

As such this role will play a crucial part in enabling the delivery of the government's reform agenda for Adult Social Care as set out in the 'Next Steps to put People at the Heart of Care' and 'Care Data Matters'.

This role will provide significant opportunities for learning and development.

Working in such a broad stakeholder landscape will provide opportunities to build relationships and gain exposure to multiple aspects of government policy-setting and delivery, including exposure to senior leaders in the Civil Service.

Combining both strategy and delivery will allow the role holder to develop both these skillsets, while gaining a better understanding of the necessary links between them.

Person specification:

Role responsibilities_

The role holder will be responsible for:

Supporting the development of long-term strategy by building an understanding of the ASC digital market drawing on a wide range of evidence
Assisting communications with senior leaders across government and with key external stakeholders by drafting materials and presenting
Developing and managing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to inform understanding of policy, project delivery and monthly reporting
Leading on project management and delivery for the Digitising & Streamlining Assessments programme
Building effective networks across central and local government, and the wider social care sector to achieve your objectives, developing ways of working that enhance collaboration and visibility across teams
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