About This Role
This leadership role involves guiding an organisation focused on adult social care into its next phase of growth and development. The Chief Executive will shape the future of adult social care, lead a successful social enterprise, and make a lasting difference to people's lives across North East Lincolnshire.
Responsibilities
- Provide visionary leadership and foster a positive, inclusive organisational culture
- Lead the development and delivery of Focus' strategic and business plans
- Drive innovation, service transformation, and business growth opportunities
- Ensure high-quality, person-centred social care services that improve outcomes for local people
- Build strong partnerships with local authorities, health partners, regulators, stakeholders, and community organisations
- Provide strategic leadership for safeguarding across North East Lincolnshire
- Balance commercial performance and financial sustainability with excellent service delivery
- Lead and develop a high-performing Leadership Team
- Maintain robust governance, risk management, compliance, and performance frameworks
Requirements
- Proven track record of successful leadership at executive or senior management level
- Significant experience leading complex adult social care services and programmes
- Excellent understanding of current and emerging challenges within adult social care
- Strong commercial awareness and business development expertise
- Demonstrable experience in organisational transformation, partnership working, and service innovation
- Excellent governance, financial management, and risk management capabilities
- Outstanding communication, influencing, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to inspire, motivate, and develop teams to achieve exceptional outcomes
- Political awareness and the ability to operate effectively in complex environments
- Strategic thinker with the ability to navigate complexity
- Ambitious and innovative leader who embraces change
- Financially astute and commercially minded
- Strong advocate for personalisation, community inclusion, and safeguarding
- Energetic, resilient, and outcome-focused
- Credible, authentic, and highly respected by colleagues and stakeholders alike
Benefits
- Work centred on improving lives, supporting independence, and strengthening local communities
- Opportunity to lead a respected organisation with a strong reputation for innovation and partnership working
- Chance to influence the future of adult social care locally
