External Affairs and Policy Officer (Homebased) Remote
Job description
Job Title: External Affairs and Policy Officer
Hours: Full time, 36 hours per week
Job Status: Permanent
Location: Home-based with some level of travel within England
Salary: £31,435.25 per annum
Closing Date: 24 May 2023
Interview Date: Interviews are expected to be held between 7 – 9 June 2023
Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.
Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.
Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.
Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for an External Affairs and Policy Officer to join our External Affairs and Policy team, replacing someone who’s just earned a fantastic internal promotion.
If you’d like to help solve some of the biggest policy challenges facing the adult social care sector – enabling people to access the advice, care and support they need to live life to the fullest – this could be the job for you.
Reporting to the Head of External Affairs and Policy, this role helps to drive and deliver our policy, public affairs and other important external influencing and relationship-building work. You’ll also help keep the team running smoothly by taking the lead when it comes to coordinating the team’s work and organising meetings and events.
You will have exceptional organisation, communication and influencing skills, great judgement and lots of initiative – someone who can spot what needs to be done and come up with solutions without waiting to be told. You’ll need to be able to build strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders alike.
Some experience of working in policy or public affairs is essential, and it would be ideal if you’ve already got some knowledge and experience of social care policy – but the most important thing is that you’re able to build this up quickly.
Apart from occasional travel for meetings and events, this is a home-based role – with all the flexibility that comes with that. We’re an organisation and team that really care about wellbeing and work/life balance, so it’s all about the work you do – not where you do it.
If you’re interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description.
At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.
