Community Resource Officer - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Milton-Keynes-Council

Milton-Keynes-Council

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Job Introduction

An exciting opportunity for a Community Resource Officer to join our friendly and supportive team and make a positive difference to the lives of adults, children and young people.

You'll work with colleagues across Children's and Adult Social Care as well as partners and providers to identify and negotiate suitable placements and home care packages for adults, children and young people.

We offer an excellent benefits package and flexible working arrangements including home working, with the requirement to come into our city centre offices once per week.

Role Responsibilities

Source and lead the negotiation of placement fees.
Regularly engage with Social Work teams and Providers of care.
Develop and maintain effective relationships with relevant stakeholders.
Develop and maintain a vibrant provider market for social care services.
Strong communications skills with the ability to influence key stakeholders
Ability to provide close monitoring of data and performance information
Effective negotiation skills.
Good written and record keeping skills.
Educated to Degree level or relevant experience in Adult Social Care or Children's Social Care.
Works well under pressure with short deadlines and able to prioritise workloads.
Works well as part of a team including collaboratively with other professionals and key agencies but also autonomously.

About The Company

Milton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future.

We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.

Milton Keynes City Council is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people.

We're responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.

Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative.

If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.

Package Description
We are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at Milton Keynes City Council, including:

Local Government Pension Scheme, considered to be one of the best employer contribution rates of 18.8%.
28 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years.
Holiday Purchase Scheme.
Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as inhouse management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Health Cashplan.
MK Advantage benefits package a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.

Blue Light Card

Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more

SmartGo

Aimed at encouraging lowcarbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
Childcare Subsidy.