Care Sector Workforce Development Office
Team: Contracts and Compliance Team
Job Family: Advising – CBG9
Salary: £34,811 – £37,562 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid – Fixed Term until November 2026
Closing Date: 2nd November 2025
Interview Date: TBC
About the role:
The Care Sector Workforce Development Officer is a one year funded role that will aid the Council’s oversight around the workforce demographics and recruitment activity to strengthen our evidence base on and help keep stability within the adult social care workforce in order to mitigate and escalate risk identified.
Purpose of the role:
The Care Sector Workforce Development Officer will support the adult social care workforce to deliver a wide range of recruitment, retention and wellbeing initiatives. They will be improving the Council’s intelligence of the adult social care workforce and sharing evidence to shape and strengthen the local deployment of Regional International Recruitment Initiatives.
This dedicated role will deliver against the Council’s agreed programme and address the potential recruitment and retention initiatives, as well as onboarding of international recruits within the external adult social care sector. They will need to be organised, innovative, passionate about the subject matter and able to communicate intiatives and training. This responsibility will ensure our infrastructure is in place to be resilient, manage and strengthen our support in relation to ensuring we have sufficient external workforce capacity in the adult social care sector. The role will be confident in building relationships, collaborating with others and working as a part of a team. They will show confidence in data collection and analysis.
The role will need to work closely with the Contracts & Compliance team to ensure there is targeted support for our external provider market to improve services that support our commissioned care.
This role presents a rewarding career opportunity with an ability to directly support the adult social care workforce.
Main duties:-
- To ensure the Council have clear data collection and monitoring processes in place with disseminating information and guidance and sharing insights and learning.
- Improve the Council’s intelligence within our local area on international recruits working closely with the Bedfordshire Care Group, listen and gather feedback to aid the Council’s position in terms of data analysis.
- Engage with local and regional partners and raise awareness working with CQC, The Home Office, Safeguarding Teams to ensure we are supporting international recruits in the Central Bedfordshire area.
- Prepare regular communication via forums and newsletters to offer training and awareness.
- Proactively engage with providers commissioned and non-commissioned with the promotion of the local international recruitment app.
- Prepare and engage in dedicated events to share essential guidance with our provider market.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Emily Hassard at emily.hassard@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5212.
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To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council’s policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours. Please book your place here.
More information about this service can be found here: Support getting into work or learning | Central Bedfordshire Council
