Short Breaks Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - tower Hamlets

tower Hamlets

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Short Breaks Coordinator / Commissioning Officer:

Role Purpose

Are you passionate about supporting the delivery of high quality services and ensuring positive outcomes for Children with Disabilities? We are seeking a Short Breaks Coordinator / Commissioning Officer to join Children's Commisioning Team and Children with Disabilities Service.

The role will be focused on allocations of short breaks and managing partnerships with providers.

Key Responsibilities

To contribute to the development and delivery of an expert commissioning and brokerage service that provides and enables high quality services and solutions that meet the care and support needs of children and families and that represent value for money.

To manage and monitor all identified contracts, service level agreements and grants caseloads with providers of services for children's services with a particular focus on monitoring performance against agreed standards and outcomes and reporting back on performance to managers.

To broker services for children and families, where required, acting as the liaison with service users, providers and others such as schools, officers within the directorate and other key stakeholders.

This might include transport for children and young people, short breaks, Direct Payments and other services as appropriate.

Requirements:

The post holder will:

Have a good understanding of social care processes, policies and provision
Have good problem solving, report writing and negotiation skills
Provide advice and support to provider organisations and facilitate communication between provider organisations, commissioners, operational managers, other statutory agencies and relevant professional
Have an understanding of the contract process in order to risk manage contracted services via contract review and supporting monitoring officers as necessary
Have an understanding of the role of CQC (Care Quality Commission)

Application Details
This post is open to the following types of applicants: Redeployees/ Internal/ External

If this role is available to Internal employees only, this will include agency workers but does not include independent contractors or Skills Match trainees

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