Community Digital & Practice Implementation Lead (Occupational Therapist)

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

 Location : County Hall , Somerset Council

Hours Per Week : 22.25

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £28.82

Role Purpose

To assist the Responsible Senior Officer (RSO) for TEC in the Council and Digital Lead in

Health as part of the DISC programme in Year 3, plus commissioning appropriate

services, develop policy and continuous service development within the Care Market. To

create effective frameworks, strategies, and policies for jointly commissioned services

with partner and commercial agencies. To ensure robust commissioning outcomes

and/or delivery of service to achieve agreed outcomes. To continue to the development

of commissioned services within the Care Market (Residential and Domiciliary Care) as

required


We are looking for a skilled advocate for digital transformation and practice whose focus

is on making things better and easier for people with digital enablement. They will support

the development of the developing a community provider TEC offer, Optimal Handed

Care (OHC) and aligned to the Somerset Independent Living Centres (SILCs) ensuring

that we do the right thing for individuals and carers, people and communities as well as

delivering a working environment for Care staff, which better enables staff to deliver the

best care, they can every day.



Qualification/ Knowledge / skills / experience

A registered HCPC professional with a degree qualification and/or demonstrable

equivalent experience including working on community and organisational transformation.

An interest in developing skills and practice within the care market, either within

Digital/TEC and Moving & Handling. (E)

Prince 2 Practitioner, Agile, Change Management or equivalent qualification or

demonstrable equivalent experience. (E)

Evidence of continuing professional development. (E)

Experience of leadership within Socail Care and/or Healthcare, including expertise and

understanding of performance and change management, business planning, budget

setting and management processes. (E)

Role Description

Demonstrable Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to

digital/TEC, data and Moving and Handling Practice (E).

Experience and application of planning, project and programme management

methodologies and practices within community settings (D).

Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working

to tight and often changing timescales (E).

Ability to work collaboratively with team members to co-ordinate a highly effective project

management and ensure key dates and deadlines are disseminated in a clear, effective

and supportive way (E).

Ability to interpret national and local policy for implementation (E).

Effective Leadership skills (E/D)

Experience and application of planning, project and programme management

methodologies and practices within community settings (D).

Experience of working within a complex and challenging environment, managing

relationships with multiple stakeholders (E).