In this role you'll be responsible for: Ensuring service delivery is aligned to County Council, directorate and government strategies. Overseeing the delivery of the highest quality person-centred care to the satisfaction of our residents. Managing resources and finances to provide effective and efficient services based on assessed residents' needs and budget and occupancy requirements. Ensuring the appropriate mix of competence, skills and adequately staffed teams are always maintained. Providing inspiring leadership to motivate and give staff a clear vision, to ensure they're working towards agreed targets, promoting a culture of evidence based practice. Ensuring clinical nursing standards are assessed and being met. Developing a culture of continuous improvement through regular care monitoring and quality assurance, ensuring appropriate training programmes are in place to support Practice Development. Delivering statutory services in accordance with national minimum standards, effective practice, frameworks to promote excellent practice and directorate guidelines. Developing teams and individuals through supervision and performance planning, to ensure a competent, confident workforce that meets statutory requirements and performance targets. Identifying, developing and implementing training strategies for specialist areas of expertise and practice development, with Workforce Development support. Building partnerships with other organisations, agencies and directorates to benefit residents and reflect delivery of strategic service objectives and priorities. Consulting and liaising with staff, residents, carers, the NHS, agencies and other professionals to determine and meet service needs. Developing and implementing new initiatives for personalisation and well-being agenda to assist communities to provide appropriate services for vulnerable adults. Communicating clearly across levels ensuring that national, corporate and directorate objectives align with local plans, and staff understand the directorates key priorities and their role in the delivery of these objectives. Networking with managers across the directorate, Council and partners. Ensuring compliance with external statutory bodies (i.e. CQC, Environmental Health, NHS) and that all relevant legal requirements are met. Specific responsibility for ensuring social care provision is in accordance with CQC and HCC policies and standards. This will require regular reviews and audit trails to ensure that clinical and non-clinical practice is evaluated and meets the required standard. Contributing to the compliance/quality agenda in all HCC nursing and residential homes, through the provision of leadership and support. Ensuring staff understand corporate and departmental equalities and Health and Safety policies and procedures through training and guidance. Safeguarding All employees will be required to adhere to internal safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance, taking action and raising concerns as appropriate. Where a professional code of conduct applies to the role, this must also be adhered to. All employees will be required to have an understanding and awareness of the specific responsibilities placed on individuals who care for vulnerable adults.