What's involved with this role: Temporary Children's Placement Officer - Children’s Commissioning Reference no: Barnsley 0009 5059 / 1 Pay Rate: £15.17 per hour PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 6 months City: BARNSLEY Enhanced DBS disclosure required Hybrid working A compassionate and organised Children's Placement Officer to support and join the team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in identifying and arranging placements for children in care, ensuring their well-being and support needs are met within a nurturing environment. As a Children's Placement Officer, you will work closely with social workers, foster care providers, residential homes, and other service providers to coordinate and manage placements that align with the best interests of each child. Key responsibilities: Identify suitable placements to meet assessed needs in consultation with other internal stakeholders and managers. Support and maintain the development and updating of systems for the compilation of statistical data. Support the process of contract completion, compliance and monitoring in respect of independent fostering and residential placements Support the payment process for independent providers to ensure prompt and accurate payments are made. Contribute to the process for accrediting independent placement providers as part of the agency’s obligations to the White Rose Regional consortium Conduct user satisfaction surveys to inform future placement planning Establish and maintain links with independent service providers across the Borough Attend meetings as required and undertake any identified actions Provide support as required to the outcomes of any relevant panels which may be identified for the support of children’s placements. Provide information from the data-bases to assist with internal reports, external enquiries and any other appropriate data requests. Qualifications: BTEC (Higher) in Administration or Business and Finance or equivalent relevant qualification or extensive equivalent experience. Knowledge: Knowledge of computer databases/programmes including Microsoft Office Software – Word, Excel, Access Knowledge of EXCEL and spreadsheet management Experience: Extensive experience in delivering either administrative support to children’s services or direct work with children and families such as family support work or youth work. Demonstrable experience of working with digital payment or performance systems. Experience working in children’s services or a related field. Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Skills & Abilities: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite), particularly Excel. Good negotiating and organisation skills. Ability to prioritise and manage workloads Ability to provide verbal and written reports utilising relevant statistical data. Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including Social Care and Health colleagues, providers of residential children’s homes, fostering and 16 semi-independent accommodation. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please