Children's Commissioning Compliance Assistant
Job description
Are you friendly, professional and a good communicator?
Make the change to #TeamNEL to make a real, lasting difference
We're looking for a compliance assistant to join our social care commissioning team on a full time, permanent basis.
What will your day look like?
This is a fast-paced role which requires the use of initiative and planning to support the work of the children’s commissioning team and the work they do to find the right homes and education places for vulnerable children and helping to keep these children safe and secure. The role will require you to deliver an effective and efficient service including:
1. Creating and administration of systems to monitor compliance
2. Issuing contracts on behalf of the local authority and monitoring returns
3. Issuing and tracking agreements issued by the local authority to external providers
4. Working in partnership with finance colleagues to ensure value for money in relation to placements
5. Noting and escalating quality assurance concerns
Who are we looking for?
You will have experience of being part of a team that works in a high pressure environment. You will have effective communication and ICT skills and the ability to build good working relationships across the team and wider to ensure we are operating effectively and meeting all compliance requirements.
You will have excellent attention to detail and be able to manage your own workload ensuring tight deadlines can be met.
Why join us?
Joining our Children’s Commissioning Team means becoming part of a service that makes a real and lasting difference to the lives of children and young people across our community.
Working with us means contributing to a service where your work has purpose every day—helping to improve outcomes for our children, our future.
Key Dates
We aim to interview candidates w/c 9th March
For more information, please refer to the attached guidance and role profile. If you would like an informal discussion, please contact
We reserve the right to close our adverts early if we have received a significant volume of suitable applications.
We love AI and think it plays a great role in the world of work. However, for your application, we want to hear from YOU! As such, we will be testing applications to determine the use of AI, and applications that have heavily utilised the function will be scrutinised for suitability.
As part of your RewardNEL package, you will have a generous leave entitlement (including bank holidays) and enrolment into a local government pension.
You will also have access to our exclusive RewardNEL platform.
This includes a variety of salary sacrifice schemes including Cycle2Work, Holiday Extra and Tusker (Car Lease), discounts at local coffee shops and bars, direct access to our inhouse wellbeing support, free and discounted local car parking as well as instant access to new savings at major retailers, entertainment and hotels.
NELC staff can also benefit from flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities and a Fostering friendly scheme.
In order to fully comply with Safer Recruitment guidelines, if you are successful with your application, you must meet the below criteria and be able to provide:
6. At least one reference must be from your current or most recent employment, placement or work experience (if you are an agency worker at NELC, please provide your agency as a reference)
7. You must provide a professional/company email address (we cannot accept personal email addresses)
8. References must cover the last 3 years, any reasons for gaps should be detailed in your enhanced reference form. Your references will only be requested if you are offered and have accepted a position
Please note: This role requires a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at a level appropriate to the post. It is a contractual and essential requirement that the successful candidate is registered with the DBS Update Service. You have 30 calendar days from the "date of issue" printed on your standard or enhanced DBS certificate to register for the DBS Update Service using the certificate number.
Do you need support?
If you need any help applying for this position, please contact Wendy Trask on (text or call). Wendy can support with digital access as well as offering advice and guidance about completing the different sections of the application form.
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