Technology Enabled Lives - Strategic Development Lead

Technology Enabled Lives - Strategic Development Lead

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PA collaborates with Councils across the country to deliver an innovative approach to care technology services, also known as TECS. Through its strategic partnerships with Councils,PAhelps people of all ages live safer, more independent, gloriously ordinary lives in the place they call home.

We are looking for aStrategic Development Leadtoplayan important rolein the day-to-day delivery of PA’sstrategic partnership with Sheffield City Council’s Home First:
Technology Enabled Care service. The role will help Sheffield move from a more traditional telecare offer towards a modern, digital, preventativeandoutcomes-led modelof care technology, embedded across adult social care rather than sitting as a separate service.

Working closely with Sheffield City Council, operational partners, practitioners, providers, health, housing and community stakeholders, the successful candidate will help make technology a routine part of assessment, reablement, support planning, hospital discharge, long-termcareand community-based support. The focus is on changing practice so that technology helps people progress towards andlive independently, stay safe, remainconnectedand exercise more choice and control over their lives.

This is a highly visible role requiring strong programme and project delivery skills, stakeholder engagement and change management experience, combined with practicalunderstandingof adult social careandTEL.The successful candidate will be comfortable working across strategic and operational levels,helping social care teams translate Sheffield’s ambitions into practical pathways, referral routes, workforce confidence, measurable benefits and better outcomes for residents,families and carers.

• Support the mobilisation and implementation of Sheffield’sHome First
  -Technology Enabled Care partnership, ensuring activity is rooted in adult social care practice, localprioritiesand agreed outcomes.
• Coordinate delivery across work streams covering mobilisation, service redesign, workforce engagement, digital development, pathway adoption,benefit sand partnership governance.
• Lead delivery of the programme plans, milestones, risks,dependencies and actions, with a clear link between delivery activity and outcomes for Sheffield residents.
• Help embed a TEC-first approach across adult social care assessment, reablement, support planning, hospital discharge, ongoing carereviewsand prevention work.
• Support social care teams toidentifywhere care technology can improve independence, safety, confidence, wellbeing, carerreassuranceand community connection.
• Lead and support engagement with practitioners, operationalteamsand managers so that new pathways,toolsand referral routes are understood and used in everyday practice.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with Sheffield’s Adult Social Care teams, including frontline practitioners, operationalmanagersand service leaders, soTELis understood,adopted and embedded in day-to-day practice.
• Work collaboratively with Sheffield City Council, providers, health, housing, voluntarysectorand community partners to support integrated delivery across the wider care and support system.
• Monitor progress, performance and benefits, including adoption, referral flow, resident outcomes, practitioner confidence…