Brokerage Officer

**What's involved with this role:
**Temporary Brokerage Officer - Adult & Community Services
**Reference no: Dorset 5240736**

**Pay Rate: £12.07 per hour PAYE
**37 Monday - Friday, 08:40 -17:20**

**This opening assignment is for 2-3 months**

**City: DORSET**

**Basic DBS disclosure required**

Working under the Direction of the Team Leader to provide a central brokerage service to source value for money, high quality care home places and domiciliary packages for all adult services client groups. Act as a micro-commissioner eg. carry out negotiations with care home providers in relation to fee rates for individual packages of care at value for money rates.

Provide full management and supervisory support to 3 Brokerage Assistants. To drive efficiencies and contribute to overall savings in the Health Care budget through a combination of working closely with key stakeholders to ensure more effective use of private, community and third sector provision; and improved value for money by negotiating care and support packages and placements within prescribed timeframes, budget and quality

Key Responsibilities:

- Identify vacancies for both routine and urgent admissions of residential and respite placements, day care and individual domiciliary care packages of care.
- Capture and input accurate data through IT and manual systems as necessary in relation to all placements arranged and fee rates provided to be used for management information purposes. This includes responsibility for updating Mosaic accurately, consistently and in a timely manner including setting up records, creating, amending, cancelling and closing packages, creating Purchase Orders.
- Provide a consistent and efficient brokerage service for all client groups across Dorset which enables professional care management staff to be released from sourcing placements and the associated administrative functions and provides care managers and social workers with advice on market availability.
- Identify savings and negotiate fees for specific placements/packages and where these are set above the Dorset County Council rates to ensure that these are value for money and in line with corporate / directorate policy. Pass to Care Manager or operational Team Manager/Service Manager for final approval.
- Undertake brokerage visits to provider organisations as part of the negotiation process and for market development purposes.
- Liaise with the Monitoring Team as part of the monitoring process alerting them of good and poor practice; obtain data information about issues of quality, contract compliance and registration status of care providers in order to achieve Best Value outcomes in the commissioning of care.
- Liaise with CQC on inspections reports, specific queries about a care home and/or to seek a variation to accept specific needs.
- Proactively develop strong links and excellent working relationships with key stakeholders both internally and externally that assist in support planning, improving workflows and ensuring package placements meet service user eligible needs in the most appropriate, cost effective setting. This includes social workers, providers, quality, commissioning, Health, the community and third sector, care navigators, Popps.
- Support the implementation of digital solutions increasing automation and decreasing manual intervention where possible, including use of DCC’s dynamic purchasing system, and the provider portal in Mosaic.
- Work closely with the new commercial core team to ensure development and compliance with the commissioning, procurement and call-off arrangements to ensure best value is achieved from both the home care and care home market

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**If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.**

Other “Essential Requirements” - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Qualifications:

- 5 GCSE’s/O’Levels - Grade C or above, or equivalent including Maths and English

Knowledge:

- Knowledge of a range of IT systems and their use
- Knowledge of the local care market Good working knowledge with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel
- Awareness of service requirements and developments regarding Older People, people with a learning di