Location: Home-Based or London, Office Based

Salary: Grade 7, £76,042 (Home based) or £80,360 (including London weighting)

Employment Type:  Fixed term until 31 March 2026 extension possible

Department: Partners in Care and Health (PCH), LGA & ADASS, employment contract held by LGA

Hours Per week: 35

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About Us

The Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services are Partners in Care and Health (PCH) working with well-respected organisations. PCH helps councils to improve the way they deliver adult social care and public health services and helps Government understand the challenges faced by the sector.

The programme is a trusted network for developing and sharing best practice, developing tools and techniques, providing support and building connections. It is funded by Government and offered to councils without charge.
https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/partners-care-and-health

About the Local Government Association (LGA)

We are a politically led, cross-party organisation that works on behalf of councils to ensure local government has a strong, credible voice with national government. To find out more information about what it’s like to work at the LGA, please visit http://www.local.gov.uk/benefits-and-working-lga and for information on Equality and Diversity at the LGA, please visit https://www.local.gov.uk/equality-and-diversity-lga.

About ADASS

The Association of Directors of Adult Services (ADASS) exists to represent and support its membership of DASSs and their management teams. ADASS is also a charity which gives a national voice for social care.

About the role

This role leads the digital transformation team within PCH; the team vision is that all councils sustainably adopt digital technology that transforms health and wellbeing for their residents.

This role offers varied work from leading and managing a team, delivering direct support to councils, working with regions, through to influencing and inputting into national strategy and policy. Our current support offer for councils includes support on the digital what good looks like programme themes, with collaboration on digital leadership, digitising and streamlining assessments, and AI. Our national strategic work focuses on topics such as the digital switchover; cyber security; case management systems; strengthening national and regional relationships; inputting into care technology standards, the 10-year health plan, and Casey review; developing innovation opportunities for proactive and preventative care, and more.

We are looking for someone who can positively lead the digital transformation team and portfolio of work to ensure that we have the best support offer to councils. This post requires someone who can ‘hit the ground running’ with a strong knowledge of digital technology, its use in adult social care and national strategy and programmes.

About you

You will need to be a strategic thinker who is creative and comfortable developing new offers of support. As a senior adviser you will need excellent customer management skills and facilitation skills, with an ability to lead direct support to councils and ensure the delivery of our programme of work.

You will need to be equally adept inputting into national strategic conversations as you are delivering support to councils.

You will need to be able to work in a complex political and strategic environment within social care and health services, with both national and local partners. As the lead for the digital transformation team, you will need to have strong management skills and ensure we are working towards our vision and meeting requirements from our funder. We are open to interest from people with a variety of skills, knowledge and experience that can be effectively translated to this role.

You must have the right to work in the UK, the LGA are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship visas. Evidence for the right to work in the UK will be requested at the interview stage. 

To apply

If you would like to be considered for the role, please complete the online form and include a supporting statement detailing how you meet the criteria for the role before the closing date.

1. Significant experience of managing a complex workload, preparing plans and meeting deadlines and milestones

2. Significant experience of leading successful projects particularly in the fields of local government, health and/or care

3. Experience of project management approaches and principles across multiple projects in the fields of local government, health and/or care

4. Experience of working with officers and/or members to deliver support to local authorities and/or health organisations.

5. Significant experience of building and maintaining effective relationships and partnerships, contributing to the development of strategies and interventions and innovative solutions to complex issues

6. Significant experience of managing performance, project management, demonstrating the ability to meet targets in respect of deadlines and resources and working in adult social care at a local and/or national level.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact edmund.willis@local.gov.uk

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Senior Adviser - PCH - Job Description

Closing Date: 5pm, 10 October 2025 

Interview Date:  will be held virtually week commencing 13 October 2025

We use anonymous recruitment, which is the practice of hiding candidates’ identities. This process involves removing any identifying information from candidates’ applications which includes names.

At the LGA we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees where everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit.  

The LGA are proud to be awarded a “Disability Confident Leader”.  Please contact us via Recruitment@local.gov.uk if you require a reasonable adjustment, which is a change to the format or conditions of the recruitment process to accommodate any disability-related needs you may have.

Our benefits

• LGA annual leave entitlement is 29 days, rising to 31 days after three years’ service and to 33 days after five years’ service, plus all UK public holidays (pro rata for fixed term and part time contracts).*

• Flexible & agile working – office-based staff are required to work in the LGA’s London office two days per week as a minimum, subject to business need and this may vary significantly between different roles and from week to week.

• Future development – face-to-face and virtual courses are scheduled in line with developmental goals

• The LGA offers 24/7 access to a free, confidential employee assistance programme managed by Health Assured. This service is also available for Dependants.

• Family friendly policies

For more of LGA’s benefits and working with us, please view our webpage https://www.local.gov.uk/benefits-and-working-lga

Our values & behaviours

Our Values and Behaviours are there to give us an understanding of who we are as an organisation and who we want to be. They are a framework to help us understand:

• how we work with each other

• how we work with our members and stakeholders

• our expectations for ourselves and each other

Our values are:

Collaboration – We value collaboration, to pursue shared goals by encouraging and utilising diverse perspectives and working with internal and external colleagues across the organisation.

Inclusion – We value inclusion, where everyone feels valued, understood, and supported to contribute meaningfully.

Ambition – We value ambition, reflecting our desire to achieve best possible outcomes for local government, communities, and individuals.

Respect – We value respect, to ensure fairness, recognition, and shared accountability.