Metropolitan thames valley

Team Coordinator

17/01/2025
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£29800 - £29800 / year

Job Description

Team Co-ordinator


£29,800

Beeston, Nottingham


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About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that “everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well”; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live.With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.


This role

As a Team Co-ordinator you will support your compliance team to deliver excellent compliance performance and smooth day to day repairs service to residents and front-line staff.

Your role will include, answering the phone, supporting your manager in compiling reports and monitoring KPIs and dealing with day-to-day queries from front line staff, ensuring they are routed appropriately within the team. You will also co-ordinate complaints allocated to the contractors.

You will work closely with the team, with contractors and have some contact with residents usually on the telephone. Your role will be flexible and you may be asked to complete a range of administrative tasks to help us deliver the services that the team is responsible for. You may also be asked to help support other compliance teams where required.


Key Responsibilities

  • Monitor progress on contractor complaints turnaround and to support the team to manage a quick turnaround of enquiries
  • Provide the head of Compliance and Contract Managers with business and performance data
  • Organise meetings and events as required, including drafting agendas, booking rooms and refreshments, collecting visitors and typing minutes.
  • Provide support for Contract Officers who are out of the office or on leave, or who need general assistance with a large project
  • Support the team to manage the work of contractors e.g rebooking compliance or repair appts and escalating appropriately where necessary
  • Undertake any other administrative and clerical tasks for the teams as necessary
  • Support the business with designing and implementing training and be the point of contact for technical queries


What you’ll need to succeed

  • Experience of developing and running administrative systems and procedures
  • Experience of managing conflicting priorities in a busy office environment
  • Take responsibility for your own learning and development
  • Excellent PC skills including Microsoft Word and Excel, email, and calendar systems
  • Experience of effectively managing multiple tasks in a busy environment
  • A self-motivated, ambitious team player who is capable of managing their own time.
  • Experience of taking minutes and administration


What you need to do now

If you’re interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, click ‘apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.


What’s in it for you?


Our benefits include:-

  • 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
  • 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
  • An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
  • Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
  • Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
  • Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
  • Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
  • Cycle2work scheme
  • Hybrid Working – Dependent on job role and department
  • Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
  • Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
  • Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
  • Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
  • Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
  • Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation


About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document


Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

  • Gender
  • Ethnicity
  • LGBTQ+
  • Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Kirklees council

Team Coordinator

14/01/2025
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Job Description

We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made – please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.
Organisation

Kirklees
Directorate

Adults & Health
Service Area

Learning Disabilities & Mental Health
Hours

30
Number of Jobs

1
Location(s)

Doctor Lane, Mirfield, WF14 8DP
Position type

Temporary
Length of contract

until 01/01/2026
Grade

7
Salary

£23,208.65 – £24,372.97, Hourly rate: £14.84 – £15.58
Enhancements / additional payments details

7% enhancement for working over a 7 day rota

Do you want a job with a high level of satisfaction? Are you a caring person? Do you enjoy making people happy and feel safe? Then we have the perfect role for you!


The Home and Its Staff:

Ings Grove House is a modern, 40 bed Care facility located in the village of Mirfield. The home works in partnership with Locala Health Care to support the residents of Kirklees who have been discharged from hospital and require short term rehabilitation care.

Ings Grove House has 4 suites where residents stay (Bluebell, Willow, Blossom and Lavender), all decorated to feel like a home from home, including items such as framed paintings that one of our talented past residents painted specially for us. With fantastic spotless facilities such as lounge areas and dining rooms, a rehab kitchen, a gym, and an onsite GP, our residents feedback tell us that they feel safe, secure, and supported as individuals.

Our staff are skilled and compassionate when supporting residents with their journey back to independence. Our person-centred care plans and rehabilitation program promotes dignity and choice, to optimise their life skills prior to their planned discharge. In the meantime, our team work hard to ensure the residents remain at the centre of all that we do, often going the extra mile to make our residents stay with us as comfortable as possible, providing person centred activities and celebrating special occasions and birthdays.


Testimonial from one of our team:

One of the team members at Ings Grove says, ‘It’s not a job but a vocation, you must love the role, we are a community, and I will be here until I retire.’


The Role

The Team Coordinator is a vital part of the senior team for our residential homes. As part of your role, you will be expected to lead a shift, administer medication, contribute to person centred care plans, and facilitate admissions and discharges for our residents.

Reporting to a Deputy Team Manager and working alongside other Team Coordinators, you will have responsibility for a team of Support Workers to include line management, supervision, and the development of the team. The overall support of your staff team is key to this role, ensuring that both mandatory and individual training and development needs are identified.

A large part of your role will be to work with residents, relatives, and other professionals. You will work with care staff to contribute to and develop personal support plans with residents who may have restricted mobility and/or challenging behaviour, to ensure the highest quality of care and support is provided.

As a positive role model, you will be open to change and show a willingness to get involved by presenting a self-assured image in a variety of situations, through this you will demonstrate your commitment to service priorities. Should you encounter practices or behaviour which does not meet service standards you are expected to challenge this and make the relevant Manager or Deputy Team Managers aware of the actions taken.

As part of your wider duties and responsibilities you are required to promote and actively support the Councils responsibilities towards safeguarding. Safeguarding is about keeping people safe and protecting them from harm, neglect, abuse, and injury. It is about creating safe places, being vigilant and doing something about any concerns you might have. Safeguarding relates to everyone who may be vulnerable, not just the very old and the very young.

What Kirklees can offer:

  • Generous annual leave entitlement
  • Friendly and supportive team environment
  • Ongoing training and career development
  • Excellent pension scheme
  • A range of family friendly polices
  • Flexible working (not all roles)
  • We offer a wide range of well-being initiatives including a cycle to work scheme and discounted KAL membership
Vicki Greenwood is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.
This job is subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level, please refer to the Job Description/Profile. A conviction may not exclude candidates from appointment but will be considered as part of the recruitment process.
We know there’s a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and we encourage applications from people with all differing abilities. So, if you need any support completing an application form, or any other format for the application or Job Description please contact the Recruitment Team for help by email: jobs@kirklees.gov.uk or phone: 01484 221000 and ask for ‘Recruitment’.

If you are internal and want to apply for this job as a secondment you must be a substantive employee of the Council with over 6 months continuous service and have successfully completed your probation period.

Applications for secondments will only be accepted if approved by your manager, you will be asked to confirm on your application form that you have the relevant permission. If you are refused permission to apply for a secondment, please contact HR Recruitment to register the refusal.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Closing date

29 January 2025, 11:55 PM

Important Information

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