Care Connector

Cheshire West and Chester Council is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment. Do you want to ensure people are at the heart of decision making about their care and support? The position involves sourcing care and support in response to an identified care plan, maintaining effective information about available services to support the care management and commissioning process, including communication with service users, families, and professionals. Negotiating cost within a competitive framework, liaising with families, service users and providers to progress the care and support delivery. Our values are important to all of us, we live and breathe them, and they shape how we work together to create positive environments where both colleagues and people who use our services can be inspired to reach their potential. If you share our values and commitment, then you're our kind of person. Come and join us, working in an authority that has an excellent reputation, great working culture and is an inclusive and dynamic place to work. We consider our workforce to be of high value, placing wellbeing at the forefront. This is a flexible, agile post which means working in one of our Council offices in locations across the borough as well as the opportunity to work from home. The benefits of working for the Council go well beyond making a difference to people's lives, as well as working within a supportive environment with people who share your values you will have access to a huge range of benefits including discounts on:

• High street and supermarket shopping
• Gym membership
• Holidays
• Days out
• Cinemas
• Childcare vouchers
• Cash back scheme on any medical treatment that you may require via Medicash
• Car lease scheme (Brand new fully maintained and insured car for 3 years in return for a fixed monthly payment via salary sacrifice)
• Cycle Scheme (Save up to £320 on the cost of a brand-new bike and equipment)
  
  Experience of working in multi-agency and multidisciplinary setting and systems
• Experience of working in a fast paced and pressured environment
• An understanding of care coordination
• Experience in using Liquid Logic and ContrOCC
• The ability to co-ordinate support using a wide variety of care options e.g. direct payment, commissioned service, community sector organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A Strong team player across own and other teams internally and externally, actively contributing to the positive development of the team
• Commitment to excellent customer service
  
  Competitive salary
• A generous holiday allowance starting at 26 days pro rata (plus bank holidays) increasing with length of service to 31 days and the ability to purchase additional leave.
• An excellent career average pension scheme with employer contributions of 18%. (Employer contributions elsewhere are typically 3%)
• The opportunity to develop your skills and career
• Rewards and Recognition for going above and beyond such as additional annual leave and shopping vouchers
• Supportive team and culture
• Opportunity to purchase up to 10 days additional annual leave
• An Employee Assistance Programme, which offers free 24/7 confidential assistance, practical information, and emotional support., Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £13.45 per hour for all contracted hours.