ABOUT YOU

You will ideally have had experience of working within a Council, NHS or education setting, although it would be advantageous for you to have experience of working in Social Care with an understanding of Direct Payment policies and procedures. You will have strong analysis and numeracy skills and experience or financial auditing, reconciliations and monitoring of spend as well as the ability to interpret and explain complex information across a range of different formats. You will be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills that you can demonstrate have been used across a range of internal and external stakeholders. You will also be organised with the ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines. You will have experience of line management and preferably supporting staff with challenging behaviour, conflict and/or distressing situations. Involvement in project activity and/or experience of leading on specific projects would also be beneficial.
This position is a job share role, working part time across 14.5 hours to reflect the fact that the Senior Direct Payment Officer is a full-time post. The current post holder works 22.5 hours on Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays. Whilst we would be happy to consider some flexibility around how the 14.5 hours are worked, it will be crucial that we have some cover on Mondays and Fridays. The post involves a mixture of working from home and the Civic Centre in Keynsham.

AT BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET COUNCIL WE HAVE ONE OVERRIDING PURPOSE TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES.

We are advertising an exciting new position within the busy and fast paced Social Care Payments Team to job share the position of Senior Direct Payment Officer.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Social Care Payments Team make payments to providers and carers on behalf of our Children’s and Adults Social Care Teams. These payments include both services commissioned by the Council and Direct Payments. Each area of specialism has a Senior Finance Officer in place to oversee the payments.
The position we are recruiting for sits within our Direct Payment Team. As individuals can use a direct payment to choose and arrange their own care, this promotes greater choice, control, and independence and this type of service is therefore becoming more popular amongst our residents. To ensure we can keep up with this increased workload, as well as offer a pre-paid card solution to our residents, we are seeking to recruit a part time Senior Direct Payment Officer to job share with the existing post holder. The successful candidate would need to work closely with the existing post holder, and together they would have responsibility for the final approval of payments, the auditing, monitoring and reporting of Council spend, as well as the line management of two Direct Payment Officers.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE IS SUBJECT TO A BASIC DBS CHECK.

Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role they will be considered.