Strategic Adult Social Care Lead – Assurance and Continuous Development

Job Introduction

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to take on a pivotal leadership role at the heart of Adult Social Care in Dudley.

We are looking for an exceptional Strategic Adult Social Care Lead – Assurance and Continuous Development to drive excellence, innovation and continuous improvement across our services. This is your chance to shape the quality, culture and future direction of Adult Social Care—making a real and lasting difference to the lives of residents.

Working as part of our senior leadership team and reporting to the Associate Director, you will lead the assurance and improvement agenda across Adult Social Care. You will champion outstanding practice, embedding a strong culture of learning, accountability and high performance—ensuring services are safe, effective, compliant and consistently delivering positive outcomes.

This is a highly influential role where you will shape how we understand and improve practice, using insight, data and professional expertise to drive meaningful change. You will play a key part in ensuring Dudley is always inspection-ready, while leading transformation that strengthens services and supports our workforce to thrive.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and energise a high-performing assurance and improvement function
• Drive a culture of continuous learning, innovation and practice excellence
• Embed robust governance, risk management and regulatory compliance
• Use data and insight to influence decisions and improve outcomes
• Lead CQC readiness, inspections and improvement activity with confidence
• Strengthen workforce capability, professional standards and development
• Build strong partnerships to deliver joined-up, person-centred services

We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking leader with a passion for improving adult social care. You will bring proven experience of delivering change in complex environments, alongside the credibility, resilience and drive to inspire others and lead with impact.

In Dudley, we are ambitious for our communities and our workforce. You will be joining a service that is investing in its future—where your leadership will be valued, your ideas will shape change, and your work will have real purpose.

If you are ready to lead from the front, drive high standards and help us build a stronger, more responsive and more resilient Adult Social Care system, we want to hear from you.

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups
and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Workplace Attendance: Working in the office 3+ days a week (pro-rata) or Onsite full time

So that we can demonstrate Dudley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and to improve bias in the recruitment process that could create barriers for candidates. Your personal data will be anonymised when you apply, to ensure that you comply with our anonymisation process, please ensure you have removed your name and date of birth from any attachments prior to uploading them to your application.

Online application forms will only be accepted for this vacancy, online facilities for jobs are available at public libraries within the Dudley Borough.

All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove their right to work in the UK.

Please note: Dudley MBC does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK.

If you require support completing an online or paper application form and or interview techniques, please contact Dudley Adult and Community Learning on 01384 818 143 or acl@dudley.gov.uk who can support with Digital Skills and Job Applications.

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N.B. We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications

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