As a double award-winning council, we’re committed to providing exceptional adult social care support that enriches the lives of our community.

We’re a high-performing service, ranked top nationally for people telling us our support makes them feel safe and secure, committed to changing lives and working with our communities.

We’re looking for a visionary service director to lead our commissioning, improvement and assurance efforts in adult social care, helping us to be even better.

There’s never been a more exciting time to join adult social care in Barnsley Council. Thanks to our Better Lives programme, we’re always improving the way we work and deliver care, placing the people we support at the heart of everything we do.

By working with our health and care partners, we’re bringing our healthy Barnsley ambitions to life, including our innovative health on the high street plans. We’re also proudly showing what’s possible working in social care through our Proud to Care Barnsley hub.

These are just some of the great things we’re working on, so if you’re passionate about making a difference and have a proven track record in social care leadership, we’d love to hear from you.

You can read more about our high-performing services in our local account and what we want to achieve working with our health partners in our Barnsley Health and Care Plan.

We was recently crowned LGC Council of the Year 2023 and was awarded an LGC award for employment support.

Our How's Thi Ticker team took home the Public Health award for the excellent work of their evidence-based, community blood pressure check campaign which has brought more than 7,500 free blood pressure checks directly to our communities so far.

Meanwhile, our Supported Employment team were triumphant in the Economic Development category for their efforts in helping people with learning disabilities, learning difficulties, neurodiverse conditions and Autism to succeed in work and championing inclusive employment practices across South Yorkshire.