Senior Contracts Officer (557473)

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established team within the Department of Adult Social Care. 

We would like to recruit a dynamic, forward-thinking and flexible individual to a management post within the Contracts Team.

The Contracts Team within Financial Support Services is responsible for issuing contracts and making payments to Residential Care providers, making payments to service users receiving Direct Payments, and auditing these accounts, managing the Deferred Payments (Loan) Scheme and completing financial assessments and reviews for service users, in line with the Care Act 2014, and the Care and Support (Charging and Assessment of Resources) Regulations 2014.

The main responsibilities of the post include: 

• The recruitment, training, and performance management of a team of Contracts Officers.
• Supporting our service users and their families throughout the financial assessment process of entering Residential Care.
• Ensuring our Residential providers are supported with all financial aspects of the Council’s payment process.
• Managing the provision of a Deferred Payments (Loan) Scheme.
• Analysing complex problems and information and arriving at solutions
• Prioritising work allocation to the Contracts Officers.
• Experience of working effectively to tight deadlines with accuracy using complex numerical information, and able to demonstrate understanding of working in a financial and commercial environment.

The successful candidate will be educated to educated to NVQ Level 4 or be able to demonstrable through the recruitment process they have experience to operate at an equivalent level in an admin/finance related environment to be able to advise and make decisions on complex matters, which is a main feature of the role.

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

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 Michelle Greenwood on 01274 439754 or by emailing mgreenwood@bradford.gov.uk

Previous applicants need not apply

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: 8th February 2024

Please see attached Job Profile: Senior Contracts Officer - JP.doc

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