Adult Social Care Lead – Prevention, Wellbeing and Community Connection

Adult Social Care Lead – Prevention, Wellbeing and Community Connection Salary: £76,597 - £81,370 pa

Location:

Dudley, West Midlands

Contract:

Permanent, full time This is a rewarding opportunity for a registered, experienced social care professional to shape how Dudley shifts adult social care from reactive crisis management to proactive, person-centred support that helps people live independently for longer. As Adult Social Care Lead for Prevention, Wellbeing and Community Connection, you will lead the development of interventions that draw on community assets, partnerships and strengths-based practice from first contact.

You will lead a multidisciplinary first response approach, ensuring timely assessment, effective triage and a consistent right response first time. You will champion a Home First philosophy that supports effective hospital discharge and recovery, strengthen access to reablement as a preventative intervention, and drive the expansion of technology enabled care across Dudley to enhance independence, safety and wellbeing.

This role offers a genuine strategic seat on the Management Team, with the chance to deputise for the Associate Director and shape how Dudley builds a more preventative, community focused model of adult social care. If you want a role with real impact and genuine potential for career development, we encourage you to apply. Who we’re looking for:
We are looking for a qualified Social Worker or Occupational Therapist, registered with Social Work England or the HCPC, with significant senior management experience in a complex, multidisciplinary organisation. You will bring demonstrable experience of prevention, reablement or hospital discharge pathways, ideally including strengths based practice, community partnership working or technology enabled care, together with a track record of leading service transformation, managing budgets and demand, and turning strategy into effective operational delivery.

You will be a credible, resilient and politically astute professional, an effective communicator and influencer who can build trust across organisational boundaries and with elected members. Why join Dudley MBC? Dudley is committed to creating a community-focused, financially resilient and sustainable council that delivers for its residents. This role gives you the opportunity to play a leading part in that ambition: influencing Adult Social Care at scale, shaping how services develop and helping create a system where prevention, independence and community connection are at the heart of the support people receive.

To find out more and to apply, please click the apply button. The closing date for applications is 11th September 2026. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.