Our Leadership Team

A Message from Richard Smith, Corporate Director for Adult Social Care & Health

Lead the next chapter of Adult Social Care in Nottingham

Thank you for considering Nottingham City Council as the next step in your leadership journey.

Adult Social Care is ultimately about people. It is about supporting them to live the lives they want to lead, maintaining their independence, staying connected to their communities and having choice and control over what matters to them.

We have made important progress in Nottingham, strengthening our services, building firmer foundations and developing a clear vision for the future. Our new Enabling Gloriously Ordinary Lives strategy sets out that ambition: to help people live well, in a place they call home, connected to the people and things they love and able to do what matters most to them.

Alongside this, our Adult Social Care Improvement Plan provides a clear roadmap for turning that ambition into action. It brings together our work to improve outcomes for people, build our capability and capacity, and create the conditions we need for lasting and sustainable change.

Together, they mark an important next chapter for Adult Social Care in Nottingham. We want to move further towards a more preventative, life-led and community-focused approach, acting earlier, building on people’s strengths and working alongside our partners and communities so that more people can live independently for longer.

To help us lead this next chapter, we are recruiting three exceptional leaders: a Director of Adult Social Care, Director of Adult Service Development and Director of Adult Commissioning.

Each role offers the opportunity to make a lasting difference. You will help shape our strategic direction, lead transformation, strengthen partnerships and turn our ambitions into meaningful change for the people who draw on care and support, their families and communities.

We are looking for leaders who combine ambition with compassion. Leaders who bring people with them, who are curious about what we can do differently and who are prepared to challenge themselves to continually do better for our residents.

In return, you will join an ambitious Council and a city with enormous strengths, working alongside talented colleagues and partners who share a determination to improve lives.

If you share that ambition and want to play a leading role in shaping the future of Adult Social Care in Nottingham, I would be delighted for you to consider joining us.

Richard Smith
Corporate Director for Adult Social Care & Health

Explore Our Pages

• Adult Social Care Improvement & Innovation Hompage
• Our Strategy and Improvement Plan
• Service Redesign/Transformation
• Senior Leadership Roles - Adult Social Care
• Nottingham City Council Benefits