Market Development Officer

Job Introduction

The Market Development Officer role is part of the Council's Care Market Development Team. This team supports the adult social care sector with recruitment and retention, workforce development, as well as information, advice and guidance. The team is part of our care commissioning function in Health and Care.

Main Responsibility

The Market Development Officer is responsible for identifying, developing facilitating, and delivering support to adult social care providers. This includes the identification of workforce development and training opportunities, with partners, to deliver these opportunities in the most efficient way.

The role will focus on our newly formed Social Care Academy, across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, supporting adult social care providers.  You will work collaboratively across the partnership to support with the on-going design, implementation, delivery and review of the Academy, which will focus on bringing together existing learning, training and development opportunities for adult social care providers, alongside supporting with delivery of local training plans.

The Market Development Officer role also includes writing bids to secure funding and then implementing the programme outlined in the bid. Working with care providers and partners, working to promote a career in the social care sector and support care providers to maximise their staff recruitment and retention. Delivering engagement events for the care sector on both a small and large scale. Promoting information and guidance from recognised partners.

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a dynamic and solution focussed officer, with a passion for improving the care market to join our team on a fixed term contract until the end of May 2026. This job requires a person with a process driven mindset, with strong analytical skills and the ability to shape and deliver evidence based innovative approaches. They will have good ICT skills and the ability to adapt to change, whilst working at pace.

Experience, and knowledge, of supporting ‘providers’ operating across health and social care with high quality learning, training and development, alongside strong communication (written and verbal) and networking skills are essential.

The right candidate would have experience of supporting the design, delivery and management of complex projects to deadlines and achieving specified targets, whilst maintaining active communications with a range of partners.

For further information about this role please contact Peter Wood peter.wood@staffordshire.gov.uk  

About Staffordshire County Council

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. 

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.