Care Director Training Officer

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Adult and Children’s Social Care are looking for a creative individual with skills in IT and in meeting training needs to support with the use of CareDirector, our new electronic social care records system. The role involves providing training and support to all users of the CareDirector system. The CareDirector system is agile and is being continually developed to support improvements in service delivery, the Training Officer will be vital in supporting users to keep up to date and use it effectively.

The Training Officer will work with social care colleagues to analyse training needs, design, and deliver training, and support the IT developers in Care Director development. The role will promote and enable excellent data quality across the departments and liaise with performance colleagues to identify and solve quality issues. The Training Officer will support the culture of continuous improvement and delivery of good quality social care to Southampton residents.

We will give you the opportunity to use your great communication skills, listening to others and getting a good understanding of the different learning needs in the departments. We’ll encourage and support you to be innovative and to use and develop a range of skills and abilities to help others with their learning including coaching individuals and facilitating groups. You’ll have the opportunity to share your excellent IT literacy skills with others and have the chance to work autonomously to support others to improve their confidence in using CareDirector.

Additional information:

• This post requires an Standard DBS check.
• For any posts that require a DBS check, if you have lived outside the UK within the last 5 years, you will be required to provide a Certificate of Good Conduct or a police certificate from the country/countries you have resided in. Kindly note that this is at the expense of the candidate, as well as any costs involved for translating into English.
• Please note the salary quoted is based on full time hours (37 hours).

The supporting statement section of the application formmust becompleted unless there are specific criteria questions for you to evidence against. Applications are shortlisted against the essential and desirable criteria found within the job description for the post. Please refer to the job description when completing your application form and evidence how you meet the required criteria/questions. A CV on its own will not be considered.

Unfortunately we are not able to accept applications that are made through a third party agency. We cannot guarantee that any correspondence sent from third party agencies will be responded to. To ensure your application is received please apply online atwww.careers.southampton.gov.uk

Recruitment contact details: recruitment@southampton.gov.uk

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