Lead Broker

Lead Broker
Huntingdon
£20.50/hr
Start date: ASAP

Hybrid
AKTON recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we re looking for an Lead Broker in the Huntingdon. 3 - 6 months contract. Hybrid - one day a week in the office mainly during induction.
Job description:
* Be line managed by the Brokerage Manager
* Be the senior broker within the service, reporting to the brokerage manager and managing supporting and supervising a team of brokers
* Develop and manage a consistent service across all acute and community hospital, home and care home settings providing support to the brokerage team
* Manage the Local Authority block capacity across both care home and the domiciliary care market ensuring datasets are accurate and being able to manipulate this date to produce reports
* Support and sustain effective communication and collaboration between the Brokerage Team, local care providers, frontline Adult Support Co-ordinators (ASC), Transfer of Care Team (TOCT) Social Workers across adult social care and their managers
* Negotiate and manage care placement prices with independent sector care homes ensuring that the best value is achieved at all times
* Be responsible for team reporting of detailed notes on our case management system.
Experience, qualifications and skills:
* Demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs
* Manage and support Brokers to use and maintain internal systems (Mosaic and adam) and ensure these reflect accurate data
* Educated to A Level standard, NVQ3 or equivalent standard (e.g. GNVQ, Certificate in Management, BTech
* A knowledge of Brokerage processes and the challenges and opportunities within the sector
* Experience of working within the Adult Social Care/Health sector
* Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Windows and associated office packages and the ability to use these packages to manipulate data and produce reports