Job Title: Locality Manager x 3 (Yorkshire and Humber/ North East)                       

Salary: (£25,155.57 per annum for 18 hours per week) (£50,311.15 per annum full time equivalent)

Hours: Full Time, 36 hours per week and 2 x Part time, 18 hours per week

Status: Fixed term for 12 months. Secondments will be considered

Location: Home based – with expectation of travel within locality area and occasional national travel.

Closing Date: 8th July 2024

Interviews: w/b 15th July 2024

Skills for Care is the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government, and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills, and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support, now and in the future. We respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using data and evidence to drive forward widescale change. We provide best practice, tools, resources, and intelligence to support workforce recruitment, capabilities, and culture.

About the role….

We have a new strategy and a new direction. It is an exciting time to join us as a Locality Manager. This role is an ideal opportunity for passionate and dynamic individuals looking to help shape the future of the social care workforce.

As a Locality Manager your role is pivotal to support the sector to respond and adapt to the emerging trends and needs within social care, using our Adult Social Care-Workforce Data Set data, sector insight and engagement work to drive forward our ambitions for widescale change.

To cover an internal secondment, we have a fixed term vacancies for the unique role of Locality Manager our Yorkshire, Humber and North East team.

• Locality Manager (York and North Yorkshire) 36 hours per week
• Locality Manager (Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire) 18 hours per week
• Locality Manager (County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland) 18 hours per week

You will need to live within, or within reasonable commutable distance, of this area.  

The role of Locality Manager is very flexible and provides the opportunity to get involved in a wide range of work and projects to support our ambition of a social care workforce with the right people, skills and support, delivering the highest quality care. You may contribute or lead on specific pieces of work as opportunities arise, e.g., internal task and finish groups, business development opportunities and external projects.

In return, Skills for Care will provide the following benefits:

• Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay – one less thing to worry about when the little one comes along.
• Keeping in touch (KIT) days - keeping you in the loop
• Flexible working – helping you and us to get the balance right.
• Parental leave - helping you to strike the balance between work and family.
• Travel loan – let the train, bus or car take the strain.
• Cycle scheme – making sure you don’t go round in circles.
• Shopping and discounts hub – hundreds of savings from everyday items to big
• BUPA Health cash plan – us helping take care of you.
• Pension Scheme - 5% employee contribution and a 5% employer contribution.

If you are interested in this role, please visit the website for the full job description.

At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This live experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do

and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We

recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any

unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.