Contract And Quality Officer (605166)

Department of Adult Social Care

Performance, Commissioning and Partnerships

Contract & Quality Officer

PO1/PO2: £35,745 - £40,221 pa

Permanent

1 x 37 hours per week

Based at Britannia House/Hybrid (Working from home and office available)

We appreciate your interest in working with Bradford Council. Here in Bradford, great things happen. A vibrant community, innovative businesses, and institutions make up our large, young, and diverse city. At the heart of the north, the district possesses unmatched potential, a growing pipeline of talent, and an exceptional quality of life. A thriving urban district with award-winning public realm, but two-thirds rural, with beautiful landscapes, and open spaces on its doorstep, the district offers opportunities for leisure and lifestyle.

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This is an exciting time to join the Contracts & Quality Team as we look to further build the capacity of the service which now covers all ‘people commissioning’ functions at BMDC.

You will be working in a team that supports children’s and public health services. This particular role will support the newly formed Bradford Children and Families Trust (Bradford Children and Families Trust (bradfordcft.org.uk) to ensure their commissioned services achieve positive outcomes for children and families and provide excellent value for money for the Trust.

Candidates will be passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and will have a good understanding of how contract management and Quality assurance approaches and partnership working is utilised to improve service quality. Candidates will also have a good understanding of the issues impacting children’s social care services, including placements provision and how quality assurance processes play a critical role in achieving positive outcomes.

The Contract & Quality function is essential to the successful delivery of the aims of the Council, the Trust, and partners in ensuring that children and families receive the support they need to ensure children can live happy and healthy lives and have bright futures.  We are looking for candidates who are pro-active, motivated and have the ability to work with others to solve problems and look for solutions.  In return we provide a supportive environment, an opportunity to develop your skills and experience and an opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives in a city where lots of exciting things are happening.

Let’s talk about your skills and experience:

• Candidates should have direct experience of having undertaken complex contract management, an ability to lead and to line manage.
• An understanding of children’s social care, including placements provision, the challenges and opportunities
• Experience of service monitoring, quality assurance and an ability to work with partners to drive service improvement.
• An ability to work pro-actively and act on own initiative.

What can you expect from Bradford Council as an employer?

In return, we are committed to ensuring you:

• A competitive salary & Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions
• Generous Annual leave entitlement
• Flexitime and hybrid working arrangements to meet service needs,
• Access to several different staff networks
• Receive essential training, uniforms where applicable and ID badges.
• The induction process, mentoring, and support of experienced colleagues.
• Support professional development through training.
• Bradford City Council encourages flexibility.
• Bradford Council offers travel benefits for various modes of transport available to employees.
• Parking is available across the district.
• Fantastic Corporate Clubactive gym discount.
• Our recently introduced employee benefits and shopping discounts scheme ‘Vivup’.

The platform gives you access to:

• Exclusive shopping discounts
• 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP)
• Free will writing.

For further information regarding this post please contact Claire Atkinson Contracts & Quality Manager Childrens Service and Public Health on 07890420739 or claire.atkinson@bradford.gov.uk

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Direct Recruitment (No Agencies Please)

An basic disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.

Please refer to the Job Profile for full details of the requirements of the post including key competencies.

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers, Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.

The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile which is shown in this advert, outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate.  Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.

Closing Date: 4^th April 2024

Please see attached Job Profile: Contract and Quality Officer - JP.doc

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