Guy Van Dichele: Executive Director, Adult Social Care and Health
Guy Van Dichele is a senior leader in adult social care with a track record of driving large scale reform, financial sustainability and improved outcomes for people and communities. He has worked at executive level within local government, leading complex portfolios that span commissioning, operational delivery, workforce transformation and integration with health and housing portfolios. He has also previously held Public Health within his portfolio.
Guy is known for his ability to bring together strategic vision and practical delivery, turning policy, evidence and financial constraints into services that are person-centred, efficient and focused on maximising people's independence. He has led major programmes across learning disability, mental health, supported living and prevention, with a particular focus on shifting systems away from institutional care and toward community-based, strengths-led support. Guy was part of the national programme that led to the introduction of direct payments that people are able to use now to give them greater choice and control over their lives.
His leadership style is values driven, collaborative and evidence informed. He is especially passionate about modernising adult social care through digital innovation, Technology Enabled Care, workforce redesign and neighbourhood-based models that give people more choice and control to live gloriously ordinary lives while using public resources more effectively.
Guy is also Vice Chair of a national charity for people with learning disabilities.
Guy is keen to ensure reimagining social care for the future is co-produced with people with lived experience.
Salary and pension
The overall remuneration package includes a basic salary as well as the amount the council has to contribute to the pension of Local Government Pension Scheme members. Those Chief Officers who are members of the LGPS and earn between £113,401 and £170,100 pa contribute 11.4% of their salary to their membership of the scheme. The employer's contribution to the pension of employees, at all levels, is 22.2% since 1 April 2017. All chief officers are paid a fixed salary.
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.
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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 section 4 of the pay policy statement.
Expenses paid are liable to tax.
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