Description The Service & Team: Together For Families - Disabled Children's Team – Children’s Direct Payments Team The post-holder will have responsibility for a caseload of disabled children and young people who are being supported by direct payments and personal budgets following an assessment of need. The postholder will understand the needs of disabled children and their families, and be able to advise families on placing of adverts for Personal Assistants; advice on employment law and employment contracts; liaise with the child’s allocated worker, pre-and post-reviews / home visits; provide data from their caseloads to inform direct payments quality assurance and performance management (QAPM) process. The post-holder should also be able to work independently and manage their own workload, whilst also working as part of the wider DCTS team, and more broadly across other Children & Families Teams. This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies. This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure check. Working Pattern: 37 hours Monday to Friday What you’ll need to succeed: Knowledge of the needs of disabled children, young people & their families. Knowledge of the legal and good practice frameworks for the delivery of high quality standard direct payment / personal budget services for children and families. Experience of organising and managing one’s own workload. Ability to deliver a service within budget. Knowledge of associated services, such as managed account providers. An understanding of the importance of employment law. Experience of quality assurance & performance management against standards, including audit. Confidence and competence in financial management. Skills in solution-focused work, dispute resolution and complaints management. Good standard of education. Knowledge of direct payments / personal budgets and the needs of disabled children, young people and their families. Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you’ll get in return: Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met. Our core employee rewards and benefits include: a competitive salary. a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave. A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services. Additional Information: Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role The full role profile is attached here For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact carey.thomas@cornwall.gov.uk Application Process Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process. Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.