Placement Brokerage Officer

Service care Solution are currently recruiting for a Placement Brokerage Officer with Northamptonshire Children's Trust.

Main Responsibilities

As a Placement Brokerage Officer, some of your responsibilities will be:

• To undertake all tasks in relation to the brokerage of Placements for Northamptonshire's Looked After Children - taking all referrals for children requiring placement requests and identifying the best match available to them taking into consideration the child's needs & making the best use of resources available.

• To work as a category specialist - developing key knowledge and understanding in relation to a specific area of the market enabling placements that require these services to be commissioned effectively

• To ensure that financial processes within the authority are adhered to and that the necessary agreements for allocation of resources is in place for each placement identified.

• To support the QA element of the team's work - reviewing placement requests and supporting colleagues in Social Care to complete these ensuring this is done in a timely manner and with a view to ensuring that all relevant information is gathered and shared with providers to help them make an informed decision about their ability to provide a service to the young person.

Requirements:

• Full enhanced DBS


• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Working with Service Care Solutions comes with many benefits, including:

• A specialist consultant within an experience and dedicated recruitment team


• Excellent rates of pay


• Payroll service twice a week


• Hybrid Working

If you are interested in the Placement Brokerage Officer role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Emma at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208964 or email emma.petricco@servicecare.org.uk

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed!