Job Introduction
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and forward thinking Senior Officer to the Direct Payments Contracts Team, within Financial Support Services.
The Financial Support Services (FSS), based at Britannia House in Bradford’s city centre is made up of four teams with specific functions linked to the Departments responsibilities set out in Sections 14, 17 and 69-70 of the Care Act 2014. Some of the key duties of FSS are making payments to providers that are delivering care and support services to vulnerable adults in the district, ensuring people receiving those services are financially assessed to contribute towards the cost of the service, which could be in their own home or in residential and nursing placements. FSS is also responsible for supporting people who are unable to manage their financial affairs or do not have others in their life that can help them to do so. The Contracts Team are responsible for providing financial services to people who are entering residential care and for people who choose to meet their care needs using the Direct Payments scheme.
As a Senior Contracts Officer in the Direct Payments’ team, you will be responsible for overseeing the preparation of contracts and payments to people who are in receipt of direct payments. You will provide guidance to officers in carrying out financial reviews and dealing with non-compliant and complex cases. This will include allocating tasks and monitoring productivity for individual officers and the team as a whole, along with carrying out all aspects of Personnel Management.
You will require:
- Educated to NVQ Level 4 and / or demonstrable experience to operate at this level in an admin/finance related environment,
- Experience in a supervisory / managerial setting where advising and decision making on complex matters is a main feature.
- Experience of using complex IT packages and the ability to extract and manipulate data.
- Must be accurate and able to demonstrate good numeracy and literacy skills.
- Be able to look at and compile complex and detailed information and relay this in various formats to service users, relatives, care providers and other key stakeholders.
- The ability to adopt and actively contribute to a process of continuous improvement within the service.
- Experience in problem solving and analysis of complex information
- Bradford Council is moving towards a hybrid working model, flexibly combining time working at home and in the office.
How to Apply
If you are interested in joining our team and would like some further information, please contact Michelle Lord on by emailing Michelle.Lord@bradford.gov.uk.
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Equal Opportunities
We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee directly or indirectly on the grounds of gender, marital status, gender re-assignment, pregnancy, sexual orientation, disability, race, colour, ethnic background, religion or belief nationality or age. And, as an equal opportunities employer, the Council strives to employ the best qualified people from a diverse range of applicants.
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