Training and Placement Coordinator
Care Providers' Voice
Training and Placement Coordinator
£30000
Care Providers' Voice, Ilford, Greater London
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 18 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: d9430d0f4e75452e865831998bc7e5ff
Full Job Description
We are a free network connecting all care providers across London. There are Care Providers' Voice WhatsApp groups and virtual and in person meetings for each of the individual boroughs to connect providers locally for current information and support.
Our objectives are to:
- Ensure care providers' voices are heard
- Provide resources to support providers
- Increase and develop a sustainable care workforce Our partners include London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Havering, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest; Skills for Care; DWP; Jobcentreplus; Care City; BHR CEPN, BHR Training Hub; North East London Health & Care Partnership; KeepingWellNEL, all colleges across NEL.
- To support TPQW Lead to focus on the care workforce development through training opportunities work with the local authority training hub and NEL offerings (e.g., hubs and academies) to collate the training offerings for providers to promote social care in colleges, schools, universities, etc., delivering presentations and talks, promoting and advocating Adult Social Care as a sector across NEL - 2 times a week minimum coordinate pre-employment training course and all aspects of objectives and desired outcomes to support TPQW Lead and facilitate placements, work experience and volunteer opportunities to promote the profile of social care attend events across NEL and support the wider CPV Team to provide administrative support and adhoc duties as required
Good working knowledge of social care / demonstrable transferable skills and willing to learn - Able to work in a fast paced environment
- Tenacity and drive to seek new partnerships and collaborations
- Good customer service skills
- An excellent telephone manner
- Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with a diverse demographic
- Written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills
- IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
- Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to work
- Decision-making skills
- The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload
- Organisational skills
- The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
- Negotiating skills
- The ability to think strategically
- A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.
- Co-operates and works well with others in the pursuit of team/organisational goals, sharing information and supporting others.
- Establishes and maintains constructive and open relationships with a wide range of people.
- Is adaptable/receptive to new ideas.
- Is willing and able to deal with changing priorities and circumstances.
- Displays an understanding of equality issues
- Understands the impact of disadvantage on minority groups
Purpose of Job
Working in/with training and workforce development organizations
Competencies:
Building relationships, working together and in partnership:
Embracing change:
Respecting & implementing diversity: