NEL Training and Placement Lead

There are Care Providers' Voice WhatsApp groups and virtual 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 Redbridge, Havering, Barking & Dagenham; Skills for Care; DWP; Jobcentreplus; Care City; BHR CEPN, BHR Training Hub; North East London Health & Care Partnership; KeepingWellNEL.


Purpose of Job

• To work with CPV team to define the web of opportunity within social care and to support the work to articulate it on the website


• To focus on the care workforce development through training opportunities


• To work with the local authority training hub and NEL offerings (e.g., hubs and academies)


• To collate the training offerings for providers


• To develop a calendar of training offerings that can be accessed via the CPV website


• To seek cost effective training solutions for providers


• To create a 'trust pilot' rating system for providers to rate training offerings


• To work with the provider engagement officer and the wider CPV team to ensure that the training needs of providers are being met


• To work with the NHS, CCG, NELFT to ensure fair access to health opportunities


• To support the CPV Nurse Educator Facilitator to place nursing students in social care


• To work with colleges and training institutions


• To work with the CPV team to promote social care in colleges, schools, universities, etc.


• To facilitate placements, work experience and volunteer opportunities


• To promote the profile of social care


• To facilitate external speakers/programmes to improve practice


• They will compile a comprehensive list of education institutions to engage with to promote social care.


• They will work with the Skills for Care / Care City care ambassadors to promote social care and encourage new entrants to work in the sector.


• They will work with NCC to support their students into social care placements.


• Work with Newham Care program and the CPV team to support candidates are employed post training
  
  Good working knowledge of social care, health and local authority systems, Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets


• An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates


• Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients


• 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


• Project management and organisational skills


• The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals


• Negotiating skills


• The ability to think strategically


• The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports


• 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.


Building relationships, working together and in partnership:

• 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.


Embracing change:

• Is adaptable/receptive to new ideas.


• Is willing and able to deal with changing priorities and circumstances.


Respecting & implementing diversity:

• Displays an understanding of equality issues


• Understands the impact of disadvantage on minority groups, Ilford: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)


Education:

• A-Level or equivalent (preferred)


Experience:

• Health and Social Care: 2 years (required)