Workforce Delivery Coordinator

Job Title: Workforce Delivery Coordinator

Hours: Up to 36 hours (Full-Time, Part -time)

Job Status: Fixed Term or secondment up to the end of the financial year (31st March 2025). NB: if you are applying as a secondment, please obtain approval from your manager prior to interview.

Location: Home-Based

Salary: £39,363.25 per annum

Closing Date: Sunday 16th June

Interviews: Friday 21st June

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.

Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.

Find out more by taking a look at our website (url removed).

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Workforce Delivery Coordinator to join our newly formed Workforce Delivery Team, working closely with our colleagues specialising in Social Care Practice Innovation. This role is fundamental to the delivery of committed work programmes across a range of topics.

This post is fixed term subject to funding, covering work programme activity for the remainder of the financial year (up to 31st March 2025). We are keen to hear from candidates who are available immediately, or able to start with us by the 1st July 2024 at the latest (subject to pre-employment checks).

About the role:

The Workforce Delivery Team are home based in England.

The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating and leading on specific elements of the teams work programme. Current topics include commissioning workforce, delegated healthcare activities, individual employers and personal assistants, and work related to meeting the needs of autistic people and people with a learning disability. These topics are not exhaustive and subject to change over time.

You will be required to engage and build effective relationships with a range of external and internal stakeholders, including people with direct lived experience of drawing on care and support.

We are looking for a person who:

• Has excellent interpersonal skills and is able to build effective working relationships.
• Has the ability to lead on projects, using autonomy as appropriate to ensure that work is delivered on time.
• Has the ability to work on their own initiative, with a proactive approach to problem solving.
• Has the ability to support people with lived experience of drawing on care and support, including autistic people and people with a learning disability, to engage meaningfully in activities.

At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognise that sometimes an individual s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

A DBS check is not required for this role. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.