Responsibilities
As Director of the Adult Social Care, Health and Public Protection department, David is responsible for a budget of £301 million, providing health and social care services for 20,000 people every week.
A further 16,000 people each year receive housing-related support organised by the department.
The department works with over 300 organisations who provide services to the value of £225million. The care providers are drawn from the voluntary, statutory and independent sectors.
David also has responsibility for the Council’s Emergency Planning, Registration and Trading Standards Services.
David deputises for the Chief Executive when he is away and also leads on initiatives across the Council. This has previously included leading on performance of the authority and service reviews.
Achievements
Under David’s leadership, the department secured an 'excellent' rating from the Care Quality Commission for the performance of the social care services provided to adults living in Nottinghamshire.
The department has been recognised for its excellent service programme to help older people live at home by the external inspectors.
David has overseen the successful implementation of the introduction of personal budgets to all service users who receive adult social care services in community based services.
A number of services have received national recognition during David's time as Director, including the national Audit Office's on the support available to adults with Asperger's Syndrome; reference in the 2012 Care and Support White Paper to schemes for disabled adults in employment and national recognition of the development of micro providers who are providing social care.
David has been responsible over the last two years for leading the successful work on the transfer and integration of Public Health into the County Council. he has also led on the development of the Health and Wellbeing Board in the County Council with our partners. This has responsibility for the implementation of plans to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Nottinghamshire with our partners in Health and other public services.
In 2012 David was voted one of the top 30 leaders in adult social care in the country through the Care Talk magazine.
David is also a non executive board member of the Mansfield and Ashfield NHS Commissioning Group, a role he took up in December 2011.
Background
David has worked for Nottinghamshire County Council for 30 years and became the Director of the former Social Services department, which included adults and children, in 2005. He has also covered the role of Director for Corporate Services in 2008/9.
David has wide experience in social care and other County Council functions, including leading a number of major change programmes including local government reorganisations and a review of all the Council’s services.
At the request of the Department of Health, David sits on a national reference group to develop Care Markets for Quality and Choice.
David completed a Masters research degree on the integration of health and social care in 2004 and has recently become a Visiting Fellow of Nottingham Trent University Business School.
Salary and pension
The overall remuneration package includes a basic salary as well as the amount the Council has to contribute to the Local Government Pension scheme. Senior managers also personally contribute 7.5% of their salary to the scheme. Senior managers are expected to be on call at all times including weekends. Nottinghamshire County Council does not at this time provide any benefits that an equivalent senior manager in the private sector might receive in addition to the basic salary - for example performance-related bonuses, private health care or company cars.
| Period | Total salary | Employer pension contributions at 18.3% |
| April 2013 - March 2014 (subject to national pay award negotiation)
| £126,371 | £23,126 |
Expenses claimed
All expenses are paid to employees in the course of carrying out duties in line with the Council's Travel and Accommodation Policy which is part of the nationally agreed terms and conditions of service and detailed in part six of the Council's Constitution, on pages 6-73 to 6-78. These conditions are supplemented by the Council's local conditions laid down in the Policy on the Payment of Travelling Allowances and Policy on the Payment of Subsistence Allowances, as set out in Appendices 11 and 12 of the Pay Policy Statement.
Expenses paid are liable to tax.
January - December 2012
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| February | | | £311.50 | £311.50 |
| March
| | | £155.50 | £155.50 |
May
| | | £155.50 | £155.50 |
June
| | | £155.50 | £155.50 |
July
| | | £311.00
| £311.00
|
August
| £255.00
| | | £255.00
|
September
| | | £155.50
| £155.50
|
| December | £81.65 | | £159.40 | £241.05 |
| Total | £336.65 | £0.00 | £1,403.90 | £1,740.55 |
January - December 2011
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| June | | | £98.00 | £98.00 |
| August | | | £145.50 | £145.50 |
| October | £269.85 | | £176.80 | £446.65 |
| December | | | £145.80 | £145.80 |
| Total | £269.85 | £0.00
| £566.10 | £835.95 |
January - December 2010
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| November | £284.34 | | | £284.34 |
| December | | | £139.20 | £139.20 |
| Total | £284.34 | £0.00 | £139.20 | £423.54 |
