The role
About us:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The role:
You will be required to procure individual packages of support for children, adults and families including: continuing care and care packages for older people and adults with mental health, learning and/or physical disabilities, requiring specialist assessment. You will be required to undertake negotiations of individual placements and packages within social care. You will contribute information about the quality, availability and sustainability of the market for health and social care services and keep accurate records and reports on placements and financial activities.
This post will maintain positive working relationships with providers to collect and maintain accurate information on the cost, quality and value for money of services and their compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
About you:
You should be customer focused with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills and a strong team player. You should have drive, enthusiasm, flexible and a positive attitude with attention to detail. You will also have, excellent administration, IT and numeracy skills and enjoy working in a busy environment.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional information
We have 1x permanent role (with a start date of 01/04/2022) and 1x fixed term role for 6 months. Any internal staff interested in the fixed term role are encouraged to gain agreement from their substantive line manager before applying if they interested in the role as a secondment opportunity.
For an informal discussion or if you would like further information, please contact Helen Shewa via Jannett.Ashley@southwark.gov.uk or 0207 525 5309.
For more information about Adult Social Care jobs, please visit https://www.southwarkadultsocialcarejobs.co.uk/
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Sunday 11 December 2022 at 23:59
Interview date: Tuesday 20 December 2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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