Director, Early Intervention and Prevention

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Please note this vacancy is only available to Birmingham City Council employees.

Director Early Intervention and Prevention

Permanent

B0

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

As Director of Early Intervention & Prevention (EI&P) you will be a senior leader within Birmingham City Councils Adult Social Care Executive Directorate Management Team (EDMT). This is a pivotal role shaping the Councils approach to prevention and resilience across services that touch thousands of lives.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive guided by our core principles of being helpful open-minded and delivering positive outcomes.

You will lead the design and delivery of Early Intervention and Prevention (EI&P) programmes that reduce demand on statutory services including Adult Social Care Childrens Social Care SEND and Homelessness. Acting as the Councils strategic voice with the voluntary community and faith sector you will engage with over 4000 organisations to ensure local provision meets local need.

You will drive antipoverty initiatives oversee the Household Support Fund and champion citizen engagement in service design while also leading transformation across libraries adult education safeguarding domestic abuse partnerships asylum and resettlement programmes and community intelligence. Reporting directly to the Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Health you will work closely with Members the Corporate Leadership Team and partners to deliver Birminghams City Vision and Corporate Plan.

This is a role where strategic leadership meets realworld impacthelping Birmingham become a more sustainable equitable and resilient city.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Provide vision direction and authentic leadership across EI&P modelling collaborative and inclusive behaviours.
• Change & Transformation: Design and lead change initiatives that deliver longterm organisational and service transformation.
• Citizen Engagement: Ensure citizens are actively involved in shaping services embedding coproduction and equity.
• Partnerships & Networks: Build purposeful networks across voluntary community and faith sectors ensuring diversity and equality are central to decisionmaking.
• Resource Accountability: Oversee finance people and resources ensuring statutory compliance and value for money.
• Service Portfolio Leadership: Lead a wide portfolio including:
  • Early Intervention & Prevention services
  • Asylum Afghan Resettlement and Homes for Ukraine programmes
  • Household Support Fund and food aid mechanisms
  • Voluntary Community & Faith Sector initiatives (e.g. Neighbourhood Network Scheme)
  • Libraries transformation and Adult Education services
  • Domestic Abuse partnerships and Safeguarding Adults Board
  • Citizenfocused data intelligence and predictive analytics programmes
• Performance & Delivery: Translate strategic vision into operational plans monitor progress and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with Members senior politicians and colleagues to identify innovative commercial and digital solutions.

About you

We are looking for a bold visionary leader who can turn strategy into real impact for Birmingham. You will bring proven experience of leading complex organisations and a leadership style that is authentic inclusive and inspiring. You know how to build strong partnerships across political community and voluntary sectors and youre confident managing large budgets while delivering value for money. Youre passionate about equity and belonging ensuring services reflect the diversity of our city and tackle inequality headon. Resilient and innovative you thrive on transformation and can deliver programmes on time and to budget. Most importantly you are citizenfocused driven by coproduction and empowering communities to shape the future.

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Supporting Statement should outline how you meet the criteria for the role through your personal qualities skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer andwe arecommitted to employing retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments additional support accessibility needs or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy Birmingham City Councilhere.

For any informal enquires please contact:Resourcing@

Interview date: 21st January 2026

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance withUK Home Office requirements before any employment offer can be confirmed.

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