Registration and Advice Officer

Social Work England are the specialist regulator for social work in England, focused on enabling positive change in social work. Every day, social workers support millions of people to improve their chances in life. We are taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles. We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate - to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives.

We are looking for customer focused and conscientious officers to be part of a team that is responsible for the registration of qualified social workers and ensuring that the register is up to date and accurate. The team provides advice and guidance to all people who contact Social Work England.

What you will do
- Identify, request and obtain information relevant to assessment to registration cases. This may include contacting health professionals, police, employers, course providers and other regulators. Actively manage and follow-up requests in a respectful and sensitive manner.
- Making evidence-based decisions against our regulations as to whether cases can be progressed or need to be escalated whilst considering risk to the public.
- Ensure timely assessments by prioritising work independently, managing your own workload and using initiative and problem-solving skills to manage competing demands.
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders (including overseas regulators and higher education institutions) by providing consistent and quality customer service, tailoring correspondence to meet the requirements of the recipient.
- Manage large quantities of personal and sensitive information in accordance with data protection legislation and our data management policies and procedures.
- Collect payments for registration, renewal and restoration to the Social Work England register, including the regular chasing of outstanding payments and reconciliation of payments received
- Ensure that all work is carried out within set key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs)
- Be a change champion, assisting with implementing change within the team, by creating and collaborating with colleagues to improve processes, guidance and communications.

Your skills, knowledge and experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to draft clear and comprehensive correspondence and to present information on complex issues clearly in telephone discussions or written correspondence.
- Strong personal resilience with the ability to work well in a team with a proactive, collaborative and reliable approach to teamwork - being adaptable to supporting the team that has service peaks throughout the operational year.
- Commitment to continuous service improvement: both in suggesting new, more efficient ways of working and in learning and following improved ways of working.
- Ability to work under pressure in a busy, demanding, environment using prioritisation and organisational skills when managing competing deadlines.
- Assessment skills and an ability to complete assessments in accordance with regulations and rules.
- Ability to deal discretely and sensitively with confidential and personal information including details of health and character, financial details and convictions.
- The ability to creatively troubleshoot, identify and resolve problems
- Commitment to ensuring quality and accuracy of work.
- Strong customer service skills, and the ability to deal sensitively and effectively with a range of stakeholders, managing their needs and requests in a timely manner.
- Ability to work cross-organisationally, working well with others and responding positively, creatively and supportively to a variety of colleagues while maintaining high and consistent standards.
- Commitment to own training and development and induction, training and mentoring of colleagues.
- A proven role model for respectful, open and honest behaviour including a demonstrable commitment to equality and diversity in service delivery.

Details
- Job type: 1x Permanent and 1x 6-months fixed term.
- Salary: £29,063 per year, rising to £30,205 per year after successful completion of a 6-month probationary period.
- Location: Sheffield/hybrid.
- Benefits: flexible working, contributory pension, life insurance and benefits portal.

Application

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £29,063.00-£30,205.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free flu jabs
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sheffield S1 2AB