Workforce Delivery Lead

Summary

We are looking for a talented, creative Workforce Delivery Lead to join our small, but mighty team and drive our work in health & social care workforce development.

Salary: £42,000 – £45,000 FTE

Closing date: 13th September 2024

Aim of the role

Care City is working hard to bring about radical change that realises a more relational approach to health and care. One that involves communities, new roles, and ways of working with public and health partners supported by better technology. 

We believe that radical change always has people at its centre – and the workforce across social care, health and the VCSE sector are critical to delivering the change we need to see. At Care City we’re continually asking ourselves how innovation can support the workforce and how the workforce can support innovation:

  • What are the new roles needed to support a more integrated workforce across social care, health and the VCSE sector? How do we co-develop these new roles with partners across sectors, and the people who will benefit from them? 
  • How do we ensure our workforce has equitable access to the right support, development, and learning opportunities to deliver the future care we want to see?
  • How do we support cultural change in the workforce to realise innovation and transformation?
  • How do we create a social care sector which is seen as a place of opportunity, prestige and personal and professional growth?   

We are looking for someone who wants to help us answer these questions. Someone who combines an understanding of key workforce challenges in health and care with a belief that there are better ways of doing things, and the skills and with the desire to deliver that change. Someone who can bring together stakeholders from across different sectors to work together towards a better future for our workforce and our residents. Someone who understands that innovation and change must be delivered with and for those it will impact. 

We are looking for a motivated and innovative workforce delivery lead to: deliver Care City workforce projects; advise on and input into additional projects with a workforce component; and help build our expertise and pipeline of work to develop the workforce innovations of the future. You’ll be an experienced convener and problem solver, used to bringing together partners with varying objectives towards a common goal. You’ll be motivated by delivering real change in complex contexts, and enjoy getting to grips with policy, data and design to deeply understand and develop new approaches. You’ll work closely with our design researchers and community engagement lead to research and co-develop approaches which will truly serve our workforce and residents in North East London and beyond. 

We are a small organisation that wants to make a big impact, and we recognise the need to have a diverse range of talent, skills and knowledge in our team. 

Benefits include:

  • A meaningful job where all team members contribute to improving the health and wellbeing of our North East London community
  • Competitive and performance-based remuneration
  • 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
  • An additional day off per year for a celebration of your choice (e.g. birthday, anniversary)
  • Contribution to a pension scheme
  • Development and training opportunities for shaping and realising your career goals 
  • Flexibility with working hours 
  • A collaborative team-run Health and Wellbeing group, and individual well being budget, providing access to counselling and other support services
  • Personal User Guides. We work hard to understand each other’s working styles. 

About Us

Care City is a non-profit project-based organisation with twelve passionate, committed people working as a dynamic, supportive team. We help design and deliver the health and care systems and services that you’d want for your loved ones. We bring technology-enabled innovation, a deep understanding of how things work and design expertise, we deliver transformation of local benefit and national significance. Our mission is to help people across North East London to live healthier, happier lives.

We deliver diverse projects for local and national partners across health and care, including NESTA, The Health Foundation, local authorities and North East London Health and Care Partnership. At present, our work includes helping inspire young people and job seekers of East London to consider local careers in health and social care, improving hospital discharge processes with support from our local carers network and piloting innovative new care technologies to help people live more independent lives. 

Our team is our organisation, and we emphasise working with kindness, empathy and compassion towards each other, our community and our partners. We do not subscribe to traditional leadership models – but encourage compassionate leadership, which avoids hierarchies and places equal value on each voice within the team. 

To Apply

View the full job description here and if you like what you see and think you could be a match, send your CV to us at careers@carecity.org. We really want to know why you want the job and how you think you will succeed, so make sure you include a supporting statement to let us know a little more about you and your motivations.

Meet the Team

Interested to know who you could be working with? We are a diverse bunch with a variety of experiences and career backgrounds (and hobbies!). Meet us here.