Here at Cheshire West and Chester Council, we are committed to providing excellent Adult Social Care services to residents. We are one team, putting what matters to people first and are investing in a number of roles, across our service areas to grow our dynamic, solution-focused team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen during our Adult Social Care team’s transformation journey to create a new statutory care and accommodation team, to ensure that we can enable the residents of Cheshire West and Chester to live great lives within thriving communities. The council is looking to recruit a full-time permanent Project Manager into our Statutory Care and Accommodation Team.
This innovative team will work with the local care and housing providers, alongside the council’s housing, strategic commissioners, and adult social care teams who support people with learning disabilities, autism, neurodivergence, and mental ill health to oversee and manage the delivery of innovative housing solutions to help people find a home for life, that can maximize their independence and enable them to live great lives.
The team will project manage delivery plans for properties once care providers have been commissioned, overseeing & supporting providers to ensure that property developments are feasible and monitoring progress against the plan; helping to navigate through councils’ requirements – acting as point of contact for any questions from providers and supporting projects through housing benefits, planning, environmental assessments, etc. liaising between council teams and navigating internal and external management structures to ensure that projects are delivered smoothly.
This new development role provides a unique opportunity to innovate and create genuinely integrated ways of working across health, housing, and social care to help people with statutory care and accommodation needs to find a ‘home for life’.
The purpose of these roles is to better understand the current capacity of specialist supported housing across Cheshire West and Chester. To support forecasting and identify systematic issues and common barriers that hamper statutory care and accommodation provision and feed this back, making recommendations to the Adult Social Care Operational/Strategic Commissioning, Quality, and Market management teams regarding Policy, practice, and procedural changes.
Produce and maintain records to capture housing with statutory care needs analysis; support development of robust toolkits and processes to manage the Accommodation with Care Needs to ensure accurate capacity/demand and forecasting. Ensure that practice informs commissioning intentions to address gaps in services.
You will have the opportunity to:
* Work in a forward-thinking Council and within teams that have clear, shared values.
* Work with local people to understand their care and support needs and help to identify options available to them.
* Be pivotal to ensuring people are connected to the support services and community assets they need to live great lives.
* Receive great support from our proactive and knowledgeable management team.
* Develop and progress in your career through training and development opportunities in a variety of pathways, including the opportunity to train as a Social Worker through our fully funded apprenticeship programme.
You will have:
* Degree or equivalent experience relevant to this post (Essential).
* Qualification in Business Analysis/Process Redesign (Desirable).
* Proven project management experience across an organization.
* Experience undertaking business process mapping and redesign as part of a change project.
* Knowledge and experience of undertaking process mapping, business analysis, and business process improvement and implementing the change (Essential).
* Awareness of the Government’s wider “Improvement and Efficiency” as its effects on local government and its partners.
* Good understanding of local government structures and functions, including the challenges facing local government.
* The ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing at all levels inside and outside the organization, including community groups.
* Ability to organize and prioritize workloads effectively, including coordinating the work of others.
* Ability to deal with issues in a professional, objective, and constructive manner.
This is a hybrid role where you will be based at our offices across the borough as well as the opportunity to work at other locations, complete visits, and work from home.
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. 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.
For further information please contact ascrecruitment@cheshirewest.gov.uk
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