Lead Broker - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Colbern Limited

Colbern Limited

Verified Company

Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter

Description

NCD
Lead Broker
Huntingdon
Contract
£15.77 per hour PAYE

Our client is looking for an experienced Lead Broker.

Be line managed by the Brokerage Manager
Be the senior broker within the service, reporting to the brokerage manager and managing supporting and supervising a team of brokers
Develop and manage a consistent service across all acute and community hospital, home and care home settings providing support to the brokerage team
Manage the Local Authority block capacity across both care home and the domiciliary care market ensuring datasets are accurate and being able to manipulate this date to produce reports
Support and sustain effective communication and collaboration between the Brokerage Team, local care providers, frontline Adult Support Coordinators (ASC), Transfer of Care Team (TOCT) Social Workers across adult social care and their managers
Negotiate and manage care placement prices with independent sector care homes ensuring that the best value is achieved at all times
Be responsible for team reporting of detailed notes on our case management system.
Assist with monitoring and/or management of budgets in accordance with County council financial processes, systems and instructions
Oversee the collection, collation & manipulation of a wide range of information using CCC information systems, to generate reports, prepare letters, memos and documents.
Chair meetings, arrange and provide training events for new and existing Brokers
Demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs
Manage and support Brokers to use and maintain internal systems (Mosaic and adam) and ensure these reflect accurate data
Educated to A Level standard, NVQ3 or equivalent standard (e.g. GNVQ, Certificate in Management, BTech
A knowledge of Brokerage processes and the challenges and opportunities within the sector
Experience of working within the Adult Social Care/Health sector
Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and associated office packages and the ability to use these packages to manipulate data and produce reports
Knowledge of health and safety legislation
Knowledge of Data Protection and Equal Opportunities legislation and their requirements
Understanding of financial management, procedures and processes
Able to prioritise own and Team workload working to tight deadlines in a pressured environment
Able to consistently produce work of a high standard
Good interpersonal skills able to communicate in a friendly, open and constructive manner and build strong working relationships both internally and externally
Strong negotiation skills and track record of success
Able to work on own initiative with mínimal supervision and manage a predominantly remote working team
Commitment to continuous service development