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, in 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.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
