Children's Brokerage Officer

5 days ago

Stafford, United Kingdom Staffordshire County Council Full time

Job Introduction
Our Children's Social Care Commissioning team have a focus on ensuring children and young people have access to support to meet their needs, and provided with the opportunity to achieve their potential.

You will focus on ensuring, and facilitating that, appropriate provision can be accessed by children and young people who have been assessed as requiring additional support. This is a fast moving area of work.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to develop the role and take forward this growing area of work within the commissioning team.

If you are able to use your initiative, experienced in working with a range of different practitioners and stakeholders and most importantly want to help improve outcomes for children and young people we want you to hear from you.

You will join a friendly, hardworking and committed team with a passion to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people

This is initially a 12 month fixed term post.

Main Responsibilities
You will focus on ensuring those children who have been assessed as requiring additional support, have provision to meet their needs.

You will be:

- liaising with a range of practitioners and professionals to source and put in place support packages which meet individual needs of our young people.
- quality assurance of referrals for provision.
- overseeing block contracts with providers
- promoting support services to colleagues across childrens services
- supporting the Commissioning Officer

You will have:

- NVQ3 or equivalent qualification or the relevant work experience
- An understanding of relevant legislation for Children and Families/social care Services
- Experience of liaising with, training and providing advice to a wide range of professionals
- Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in partnership with broad range of professionals

Interviews will be held week commencing 9 December 2024.

“We’re happy to talk flexible working”

About Staffordshire County Council
**We are no ordinary county council**:
**Our Values**:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

**Our benefits**:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

**Our recruitment process**:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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