Assurance Board Manager

Role Responsibility

Are you motivated by ensuring that quality and assurance is consistently at its highest standard?

Can you manage multiple priorities, keep a wide range of stakeholders on track and monitor governance in a meaningful and timely way?

Do you want to be part of a team that works to make a positive difference to people in Kent and involve experts by experience in what we do?  

The Assurance Board Manager will play a key role in delivering consistently robust processes that aim for the best outcomes for people in Kent that draw on care and support. In alignment with our five-year Adult Social Care Strategy, a plan that aims to make a difference and support people to live a full life, this important role will be responsible for setting up and managing a new assurance board that will oversee quality levels and ensure accountability across the remit of adult social care.

The role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is equally as comfortable with leading on and implementing controls, checks and balances as they are with liaising with, co-producing with and presenting to diverse groups of people.

The successful candidate will use their experience and professional skills in the management and coordination of effective and person-centred governance processes, ensuring the smooth running of the board and developing its core work plan in partnership with its members and wider stakeholders. They will work with colleagues to make the board as accessible and inclusive as possible for board members of all backgrounds, including experts by experience.

The Challenge 

Social care and health services face several significant challenges in the years ahead, as the population is living longer and with more complex needs; increasing demand on the health and care sector. We are committed to maintaining and improving high quality services in Kent, despite the challenges faced by all public sector organisations. To help us achieve our ambitions, we have a dedicated Innovation and Partnerships division to drive and deliver successful and positive change. 

The Opportunity 

This role will be report into our Head of Innovation and Partnership. Our stakeholders include but are not limited to, people with learning disabilities, neurodivergent and autistic people, people that draw on mental health and physical disability support, older people and unpaid carers of adults. 

We welcome applications from candidates from a range of backgrounds and are committed to being inclusive and celebrating diversity in our workforce. During your application, remember to bring all of you - tell us about yourself and how your unique mix of experiences, knowledge and skills will make a difference at Kent County Council.

Applications from people with proven work experience, along with lived experience of accessing social care or carers’ support are encouraged. Please do inform us via the application process of this and any reasonable adjustments or alternative formats you may need. 

The Person 

This is a hands-on role with strategic elements and will require flexibility including travel within Kent. If you enjoy the buzz of working with a range of people and within a supportive multiskilled team both virtually and face to face, this role will suit you well.  

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interview date:  week commencing 15th April 2024

Closing date:  9th  April 2024

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact;

Helen Gillivan helen.gillivan@kent.gov.uk (Tel. 03000 41180) or

Lisa Clinton at lisa.clinton@kent.gov.uk (Tel. 03000 412974)

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.