Job Description

Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?

Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops!

Where and when do we need you?

We are looking for an approachable and professional individual to join our dedicated Quality and Governance department. As part of this team, you will provide compliance oversight for all third parties engaging with Fair Ways, by co-ordinating the management of all contracts and contractors, to ensure legislative and best practice policy is adhered to and consistent high standards are maintained. You will be a clear and confident communicator with the ability to effectively manage end to end processes to successful completion.

In this role you will be involved exciting and rewarding things like:

• Ensuring safe and compliant 3rd party engagement - Developing and maintaining the central files and register for all third party contracts and contractors engaged with Fair Ways.
• Demonstrating excellent attention to detail and accuracy – Liaising with Human Resources, Finance, Health & Safety and relevant operational departments to ensure all due diligence processes are followed when engaging with any new third parties, that potential conflicts of interests are proactively monitored and that stipulated policy compliance and legislation is adhered to.
• Being a clear and confident communicator - Providing guidance and advice to internal managers about the process for engaging with third parties and supporting in the administration aspects of contract negotiations, by producing service level agreements and ensuring payment and fee schedules are clearly stated and agreed by both parties.
• Working together to achieve consistently high standards - Understanding and monitoring key dates within each individual contract to ensure notice periods, renewal dates, tender submission dates, fee amendment dates, payment dates, exit dates etc. are highlighted to the relevant internal stakeholders and support them to action these.
• Working together to achieve consistently high standards - Ensuring that third parties are delivering services in line with agreed terms and conditions and liaising with relevant internal stakeholders and gaining legal advice when necessary to recommend appropriate action when standards are not meeting expectations.
• Demonstrating flexibility and resilience - Managing a changeable and varied workload effectively through excellent time management and forward thinking ensuring that all tasks are fulfilled by required deadlines and that any obstacles are dealt with in a calm, positive and supportive manor.

The successful candidate will be working 22.5 hours per week, ideally Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (can be flexible), with a minimum of 1 day per week based at our central support office in Portsmouth.

All candidates must have a full driving license and have access to the use of a car. Successful candidates will be required to provide an enhanced Disclosure (DBS). This disclosure cost will be met by Fair Ways.

Desirable…. but not Essential

Whilst we value the knowledge and understanding that experience and qualifications can bring, we also know that some of our best people have come to us from unrelated backgrounds. These people already held our core values at heart, and with the dedication of our amazing in-house training and development team, we have supported the rest!

• To have proven high-level administration and co-ordination experience, ideally with knowledge of contract administration and service level agreements.
• To be proficient in Microsoft Office applications, keeping accurate records and maintaining large databases.

Let us look after you!

Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.

• Free Staff lotteries (including prizes such as £1000 holiday vouchers, weekends away, luxury hampers and vouchers)
• Health Shield (Health cash plan)
• Employee Assistance Scheme (Application based emergency financial assistance for employees)
• Education Grant – (funding up to master’s level accreditation)
• Wellbeing Initiatives - Team Building Days, Summer Festival, Wellbeing boxes
• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 counselling service)
• Highstreet discount platform, Discounted Gym Membership
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Leadership Courses
• Free Parking
• Annual Staff Awards/ Long Service Awards
• Pension Scheme
• Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
• £250 Refer a Foster Carer Scheme

Find your happy place – we can’t wait to meet you!

Apply today and be a PART of something amazing - We encourage a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all communities.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 22.5 per week

Salary: £24,574.00-£27,586.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Employee mentoring programme
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Referral programme
• Shuttle service provided
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift

Work Location: In person

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