Service Provision Officer

Job Title: Service Provision Officer
Starting Salary: £33,366 progressing to £36,124 per annum pro rata
Hours: 27.0
Location: Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

The Children & Young People's SEND Brokerage Team located within Specialist and Safeguarding Services in Hertfordshire is looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our busy team.

We work in partnership with children/young people and their families to identify, broker, procure and monitor all packages of care for disabled children and young people as identified by an assessment of need carried out by the social work teams. We ensure services brokered are needs led, represent value for money and are appropriately quality assured. We work in partnership with other agencies to maximise positive outcomes for children and young people. We assist in identifying gaps in service provision and working with strategic commissioning we develop a more varied pool of resources in line with needs.

About the role

• Do you like making a positive difference to the lives of children and their families?
• Do you like a fast pace and rewarding role?
• Are you organised and diligent with excellent communication skills?

As part of this role, you will be involved in brokering & securing support for families with disabled children, from a diverse range of valued care provider organisations.

Responsibilities in the role include arranging packages of support which are needs led and deliver positive outcomes. You'll be working in partnership with families, social care professionals and care providers, to identify and arrange the right support, therefore suitable candidates will have effective and proactive communication skills.

You will also have the opportunity to promote inclusion for disabled children and young people, through signposting to local community-based activities and resources.

We are looking for someone with:-

• The ability to analyse, understand and utilise information, in order to broker effective packages, to ensure improved outcomes for children.
• Ability to research and propose alternative solutions.
• Ability to influence providers and stakeholders, through effective and proactive communication. Ability to seek solutions and work proactively with partners.
• Ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders to support effective collaborations. Stakeholders include the child / young person; parents / carers and wider parties.
• Ability to work flexibly in a changing and learning context.
• Ability to demonstrate use of ICT and maintain accurate records.
• Ability to organise your work and follow a range of processes consistently to promote an effective team working approach.
• Ability to manage and prioritise a number of different demands, engaging the support of colleagues where necessary.

About you

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of working with disabled children and young people and/or providing children and families social care services.
• Highly organised and ability to prioritise your workload.
• Ability to use own initiative.
• Good ICT skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of dealing with a high level of confidentiality
• Full driving licence and access to transport.

Desirable:

• Experience of working with disabled children and young people

This is a fast-paced environment; sourcing care packages that make a real difference to families with disabled children, providing personalised support from homecare to short breaks and direct payments. Therefore, you'll need to be able to work under pressure and be extremely well organised, taking a pro-active approach to your workload.

To identify effective services, you will be flexible and adaptable, a creative problem-solver, and deliver person-centred solutions.

You will be a strong team worker, committed to ensuring the team maintains its good reputation for being responsive and family focused. This includes covering 'duty' responsibilities on a rota for responding to day-to-day issues as well as your allocated care package tasks.

Our organization is committed to your personal growth and professional aspirations.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care Services, level HSC9 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Hazel Yabsley Hazel.Yabsley@hertfordshire .gov.uk

Interview Date: 20 th & 21 st March 2025

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.