Brokerage Coordinator
| Posting date: | 24 December 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 January 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4402 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA/Home
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,006 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 37 Hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 9th January 2025
Interview Date(s): 20th January 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to undertake the Brokerage Coordinator role supporting the Commissioning Service within the Children and Family Service in helping to ensure that children/young people and their families/carers receive quality support.
You will be working within a team and communicating directly with providers in relation to the provision of these services.
About the Role
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team
You will be:
- Working closely with the service, in particular the Brokerage and Negotiation sub team, the Quality and Contract Management sub team and external social work teams to provide specialist support in relation to packages of support for children and young people.
- Responsible for providing a comprehensive range of business support services both administrative to the department and in relation to negotiation skills when working with providers in relation to their costs for the provision of services for children and young people and having the confidence to challenge providers in relation to costings.
- The system administrator for the fair cost care calculator. This includes, providing support to users both individually and collectively, dealing with queries regarding the systems and the cleaning and retention of data held on the systems.
- Ensuring the capture and maintenance of high quality information for the department and remain up to date with all software systems, used by the service.
- Working with and liaising confidently with a range of internal and external agencies to ensure children and young people receive our services and gather/monitor appropriate information.
- Accurately entering data onto database systems, maintaining a log of data entry and making best use of database system processes for qualitative entry.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
• Hold and NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant area or equivalent level of relevant experience
• Be trained in and proficient using the full Microsoft Office Pro range of software packages (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.),
• Be confident in the use of Mosaic or other case management software and have a working knowledge and understanding of social care terminology.
• Have previous experience of collection and collation of data, performing calculations and writing reports
• Have the ability to analyse and interpret data/information and present it effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people from a range of backgrounds and the ability to deal calmly and effectively with competing pressures
• A proven ability to work to deadlines and ability to use own initiative in relation to problem solving
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Kim Sherriff – Commissioning Manager/Leanne Cluley – Senior Commissioning Officer
Telephone: 0116 305 7464/0116 305 4448
Email: Kim.Sherriff@leics.gov.uk /Leanne.Cluley@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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