Job Description

Details

• Reference: orbis/TP/52969/35700
• Positions: 1
• Salary: \xc2\xa331,262 per annum
• Category: Administration & Clerical
• Contract type: Permanent
• Working hours: 36 hours per week
• Posted on: 23 August 2023
• Closing date: 13 September 2023
• Directorate: SCC: Health,Wellbeing & ASC
• Location: Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, RH2 8EF

About the role

The starting salary for this permanent, full-time position is \xc2\xa331,262 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.

As part of our greener future strategies and our commitment to creating a healthy work-life balance, we welcome a conversation with you regarding our remote working options. Remote working to us is a balance of spending time in our communities, our offices and working remotely from home or wherever works best for you.

We are excited to be hiring a new Market and Financial Administrative Assistant to join our fantastic Contract and Commissioning Support Services here in Adult Social Care.

About Us

The team is based in Woodhatch but the post is hybrid, and we have access to work from any Surrey location across the county.

The Contract and Commissioning Support Service provides robust contract management, performance and monitoring, digital systems development and support to Commissioners of Adult Social Care.

We are a countywide team, providing a strategic perspective to some of Adult Social Care\'s biggest grants and contracts. We work closely with the Procurement team and area-based Commissioners to ensure the directorate is achieving, through its commissioned services, the best value-for-money outcomes possible for its residents.

The opportunity

In this role you will be the key point of contact for ASC\'s Market Engagement Inbox where you will support providers with queries, questions and communications, especially with regards to placements and costs. You will be supporting and logging all communications, discussions, negotiations, and agreements with providers about fees and costs.

You will be working with the Care Cubed and Fee Review Team, supporting them with the administrative aspects of any financial submissions from providers and developing reference documentation and work flows to allow Commissioners and Contract Managers to make informed recommendations and decisions. There will be some administrative overlap supporting our Brokerage Team, who make these placements and agreements for ASC\'s Commissioning Team.

Part of this role will include creating and maintaining summary outputs from the systems and reporting on the levels of activity.

About you

We\'re looking for someone who is highly organised with a keen eye for detail, interested in finance and a great communicator. You\'ll need to be comfortable taking responsibility, using initiative and be confident in managing your own priorities within set procedures and processes.

Having a good working knowledge of Excel will be crucial for this position, together with excellent, general IT skills. You should have some understanding or experience of working with highly confidential information in a customer focused environment and working to tight deadlines.

In your application, we would love to hear about your:

• Experience creating, implementing, and following workflows and procedures
• Customer service and problem-solving abilities
• Organisational and communication skill
• Technical abilities with MS Suite especially MS Excel

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For more information please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application. We also invite you to read our Life at Surrey handbook to see insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council.

Additional information

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 13/09/2023 with interviews to follow.

Contact details

For an informal discussion please contact Oliver Crouch - Commissioning Performance, Monitoring and Brokerage Systems Manager by e-mail at .

We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role. You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years\' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit for Surrey County Council staff.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.

Surrey County Council