Decision details

The interim Executive Director Adult Social Care has been employed as a contractor since 20 August 2018. 

The council is a lead member in the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System (ICS) partnership, with significant programmes of work in train to align or integrate our leadership, resources and priorities.  A product of this work will be options for the future design of the top leadership teams across the ICS.

For this reason, it would be sensible to leave making a permanent recruitment to this Executive Director position until there is absolute clarity about the scope, capability and remit of this role, or an equivalent, in the new ICS Leadership architecture. These matters are unlikely to be resolved until September 2020.  The interim Executive Director acts not only as the Executive Director Adult Social Care but also as an advisor to the Leader, Chief Executive and Chair of the ICS in the configuration of leadership roles to meet the county council’s statutory functions as well as discharge the obligations of the ICS.

The Chief Executive, in consultation with the Director or HR & OD and the Leader of the Council took the decision to move Simon White, interim Executive Director Adult Social Care to a fixed term contract for twelve months from 1 April 2020.