Team Manager (Children’s Brokerage)

January 10, 2024
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Job Description

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Team Manager within the Children’s Brokerage Team to work full time based in Hillingdon.

The salary for this permanent Team Manager  job is up to £57,102 per annum.

Main duties:

  • To proactively and assertively use the brokerage process for funding creative and cost effective solutions for children and young people with complex and specialist needs.
  • To proactively work with residential and care providers to identify ways to improve and maintain quality.
  • To work closely with colleagues in safeguarding, contracts, procurement and commissioning to share information and facilitate provider quality development.
  • To develop bespoke creative and cost effective individually adapted solutions through multi-disciplinary partnership working.
  • To identify a selection a suitable providers who can meet the outcomes of the support plan and conduct a mini tendering process based on quality and costs.
  • To ensure that the contracting arrangements are put in place to ensure ongoing robust contract monitoring and evaluation of the service and outcomes.
  • To lead on cross authority work to ensure that the regional market for complex and specialist service is of high quality, outcomes focused and cost effective providers.
  • To monitor user satisfaction with the quality of the provided service.
  • To create and maintain local systems to record and manage brokerage activity.
  • To negotiate with providers to ensure efficiency and best value for money for individual support packages.
  • To support day-to-day contract management functions with strategic oversight and expertise to ensure spend is achieving objectives and aligns with strategic priorities.
  • To demonstrate strong leadership skills utilising initiative and proactively to find ways to innovate and think strategically about the ways in which the service is delivered.
  • Understanding and commitment to promoting and implementing the Council’s Equal Opportunities policies.
  • To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.

Requirements of this role:

  • Social work qualification with registration with Social Work England.
  • Experience in managing social work caseloads and supervising others.
  • Experience of community and/or group work.
  • Knowledge of children’s health and social care systems, agencies, and relevant legislation.

Contact:
This Team Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.