Lightbulb Service Manager (Maternity Cover)

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Lightbulb Service Manager – Maternity Cover

Scale 9 (£53,460 - £54,495) per annum - Pay Award Pending

37 hours per week

Fixed Term Contract

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Blaby District Council as the Lightbulb Service Manager on a fixed-term maternity cover basis.

Lightbulb is an innovative countywide partnership that brings together housing, health and social care partners to help people live safely, independently and well in their own homes. Delivered on behalf of the seven District and Borough Councils of Leicestershire, Lightbulb provides Disabled Facilities Grants, housing assistance, assistive technology, prevention services and a range of initiatives that improve health and wellbeing outcomes for residents across the county.

We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking manager to provide strategic and operational leadership for this highly successful partnership.

As Service Manager, you will lead the development, delivery and continuous improvement of Lightbulb services, ensuring they remain responsive to local need, legislative change and partner priorities. You will be responsible for governance, performance management, financial oversight and stakeholder engagement across the partnership, whilst leading a dedicated team of Team Leaders, Senior Officers and specialist staff.

The successful candidate will have significant experience within housing, health, social care or a related public sector environment and will be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of leading teams and delivering high-performing services within a complex organisation.
• Experience of partnership working service integration and transformation.
• Experience of managing significant budgets, grant funding and financial reporting arrangements.
• Experience of developing and implementing service improvements, projects or programmes.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability to analyse performance information and use data to drive improvement.

Knowledge of Disabled Facilities Grants, housing assistance, safeguarding, partnership governance and integrated service delivery would be advantageous.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to influence services that make a real difference to people's lives whilst working across one of the most established housing, health and social care partnerships in the country.

This role will require an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check (known as a DBS check). All offers of employment will be made conditional upon receipt of the satisfactory DBS check.

Benefits of working with us include a local government pension scheme, exciting career opportunities, flexible working including a flexi-time scheme and out of town offices with free car parking and cycle bays. To find out more, click on the link Employee benefits

We also support Hybrid working arrangements with a combination of on-site and home working.

To find out more about the job and what it is like to work for us, please contact Shanice Senghor, Lightbulb and Housing Enablement Team Service Manager on 07825256481for an informal discussion.

Internal applicants can apply for this exciting opportunity via iTrent Employee Self Service (ESS). Once logged in, if you click on the person icon in the top right corner of the Home Screen and then on 'useful links', another link will appear called ‘Apply for a Job’ (Web recruitment)

Should you have any technical issues when applying, please email human.resources@blaby.gov.uk

Closing date: 2 August 2026

Interview date: 10 August 2026

Blaby District Council is committed to equality of opportunity for all, and we welcome applications from all diversities. We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people and those in the Armed Forces, and therefore as a Disability Confident Employer and to show that we commit to the Armed Forces Covenant, we offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme. Further information can be found on our jobs page.