Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews, has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Placement Officer to join a well-established Children’s service based in Kensington and Chelsea.
Team/Specialism: Placement Officer
Pay Rate: £255.29 per day
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
Main duties:
* Receive all requests for new or changes of placement for looked after children in order to provide advice and ensure appropriate placement finding processes are followed.
* Maintain an overview of children’s placements, advising managers on trends and implications, particularly regarding placement stability and high cost or long-term external placements.
* Work alongside and support social workers seeking placements, matching and placing children and reviewing and monitoring outcomes.
* Work closely with the department’s fostering service to maximise the opportunities to place children with in-house resources.
* Develop and maintain contract arrangements with Private and Voluntary Children’s Homes and Independent Fostering Agencies through the Commissioning Alliance framework agreements and spot purchase arrangements.
* Act alongside or on behalf of social workers in negotiating the price and contractual arrangements for purchased placements.
* Assist social workers to monitor outcomes and contract compliance and take up any issues of non-compliance with service providers.
* Maintain a database of information on placements and give information to, and receive information from, workers across Children’s Services and other local authorities.
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Requirements of the Placement Officer:
* Degree or equivalent in social work
* Current Social Work England registration
* Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
* Educated to degree level or equivalent evidence of continuing professional development
* Sound knowledge of Children’s Services either within a local authority setting or the private and voluntary sector
* Sound knowledge of the market of Children’s care placements
* Recent experience, ideally within a local authority, commissioning a range of placements for looked after children & care leavers (ages 0-25).
* Proven experience of managing a placement duty function on a day-to-day basis.
* Pursues creative and new ideas to provide solutions to complex problems, i.e., able to commission emergency placements for children with challenging behaviours.
Contact:
This Placement Officer job is advertised by Maya Maddison; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity.
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