Brokerage Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity to undertake the Brokerage Coordinator role supporting the Commissioning Service within the Children and Family Service in helping to ensure that children/young people and their families/carers receive quality support. You will be working within a team and communicating directly with providers in relation to the provision of these services. About the Role We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the team You will be:

• Working closely with the service, in particular the Brokerage and Negotiation sub team, the Quality and Contract Management sub team and external social work teams to provide specialist support in relation to packages of support for children and young people.
• Responsible for providing a comprehensive range of business support services both administrative to the department and in relation to negotiation skills when working with providers in relation to their costs for the provision of services for children and young people and having the confidence to challenge providers in relation to costings.
• The system administrator for the fair cost care calculator. This includes, providing support to users both individually and collectively, dealing with queries regarding the systems and the cleaning and retention of data held on the systems.
• Ensuring the capture and maintenance of high quality information for the department and remain up to date with all software systems, used by the service.
• Working with and liaising confidently with a range of internal and external agencies to ensure children and young people receive our services and gather/monitor appropriate information.
• Accurately entering data onto database systems, maintaining a log of data entry and making best use of database system processes for qualitative entry.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our policy statement., We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.


• Hold and NVQ 3 or equivalent in relevant area or equivalent level of relevant experience
• Be trained in and proficient using the full Microsoft Office Pro range of software packages (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.),
• Be confident in the use of Mosaic or other case management software and have a working knowledge and understanding of social care terminology.
• Have previous experience of collection and collation of data, performing calculations and writing reports
• Have the ability to analyse and interpret data/information and present it effectively.
• Ability to communicate effectively with people from a range of backgrounds and the ability to deal calmly and effectively with competing pressures
• A proven ability to work to deadlines and ability to use own initiative in relation to problem solving
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations. In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process., Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.