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This is an exciting role in Sheffield City Council, the post holder will take a leading role in promoting placement expansion across South Yorkshire. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and strategically minded person to drive work to help us grow the health and social care workforce. The post holder will support work placements within health and social care organisations.

We are seeking someone with knowledge of adult health and social care, with expertise and understanding of the issues relating to cross-sector placements. This post holder will actively build relationships across South Yorkshire and will work closely with Integrated Care System (ICS), Local Authority and partner agencies to grow the health and social care workforce together as ‘One Workforce’.

There are five distinct areas of focus to the proposed project –

1. Establish professional working relationships and base within Sheffield City Council and counterparts within health settings
2. To map the correlated learning for social care-based placements across South Yorkshire ICS
3. To sustainably increase both the capacity and diversity of learning environments across the social care sector within South Yorkshire ICS that can host pre-registration practice-based / work-based learning placements
4. To sustainably expand the capacity for hosting a greater volume of learners (placements) within existing / established learning environments
5. To improve the quality of learner experience, teaching delivery and opportunities for interprofessional education during practice-based / work-based learning placements

 Our values inform and define our ways of working;

• • People are at the heart of what we do
  • Openness and honesty are important to us
  • Together we get things done

If you share our values and have the knowledge, skills and experience we are looking for then we would love to hear from you.

This post is externally funded, the post will be temporary subject to further funding.

For an informal discussion please contact John Chamberlain on john.chamberlain@sheffield.gov.uk.

The post is City Centre based and currently includes a mix of office based, visits and home working. The post holder is also expected to travel to locations across South Yorkshire.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups.  We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.