Strategic Director Community Wellbeing
Location: Truro, Cornwall
Salary: up to £166,000
Reference: A000814
Status:
Cornwall Council is passionate about Community Wellbeing, and we work with a range of health and voluntary sector partners to enable our communities to ‘start well, live well and age well’. As part of our pioneering approach, we are bringing together Public Health, Regulatory Services (including Waste) and Community Services to promote and protect community wellbeing through a unified and unwavering focus on providing excellent services to our residents now and into the future. This strategy is underpinned by a critical focus on prevention, community involvement and partnership working, and this role is right at the heart of our next phase of transformation and improvement.
We are looking for an outstanding strategic leader who is truly passionate about community wellbeing and has the skills and leadership energy to take a strategic and holistic view to how Cornwall works as a place, what unique challenges exist locally and how to apply system transformation and outstanding customer service to a range of preventative and community services. You will be passionate about health, wellbeing and wider determinates of health ranging from prevention to enforcement services ensuring that communities in Cornwall can thrive and health inequalities are tackled across time horizons; with responsibility for Community Safety, Public Health, Community services as well as Waste and Regulatory services, you will be uniquely placed to do this. As a key member of the Council’s Team of Directors, you will work alongside the Chief Operating Officer and three other Strategic Directors to support the Chief Executive in delivering the Council’s ambitious 2050 vision and business plan.
You will be an exceptional place-based leader working in close partnership with the Isles of Scilly Leadership Board and nationally to drive a focus on long term community outcomes. You’ll be able to articulate a clear vision of integration and improvement that makes a material and sustained difference to the people and communities we serve. A track record of successful change management is essential, and you must bring a full portfolio of senior leadership skills (including finance, policy, analysis and service improvement). You must be comfortable working with elected members, system partners and community organisations, and you’ll relish this opportunity to innovate, create and shape a new paradigm of community flourishing.
For more information please view the Success Profile below.
Further reading
Safer Cornwall Partnership Plan 2025-2028
Leisure Strategy Framework 2024-2034
Preventing Homelessness Strategy 2025-2030
Resources and Waste Strategy 2025-2045
Indicative timetable
Closing date: Sunday 15 June 2025
Longlisting: Tuesday 24 June 2025
Preliminary Interviews: TBC
Final Interviews: Monday 21 July 2025Please let us know if there are any interview dates in the indicative timetable on which you are likely to be unavailable.
To arrange a confidential discussion about the role please contact:
Zara Bruton
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: zbruton@faerfield.co.ukMartin Tucker
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: mtucker@faerfield.co.uk
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