Description:

• Working with Children's Social Care and Providers to make residential and fostering placements.


• Screening and quality assuring individual placement requests, with a focus on ensuring requests are anonymised, up-to-date, accurate, and balanced, with an accurate description of the strengths of the young person, to maximise choice of placements.


• Ensuring that all placements are made according to current agreed processes.


• Ensuring that placement searches are prioritised based on the need.


• Communicating with providers when placement offers are not received and thinking creatively to identify and source appropriate placements.


• Ensuring that all information relating to placement searches is appropriately recorded in the relevant spreadsheets and folders.

What is required?

• Attention to detail.


• IT skills using Word, Outlook, Excel and LCS


• Communication with a range of stakeholders, including Children's Social Care and Providers.


• Problem solving skills, including finding creative solutions.


• Negotiating skills to achieve positive outcomes when searching for placements.


• Able to manage a busy workload and balance conflicting demands.
  
  


• Being able to work under pressure and prioritise well.


• Being the key link between providers and CSC to broker placements.


• Working well as a team to assist with each other's caseloads when needed.


• Dealing with difficult situations


• Reflective thinking and continuous learning.
  
  

If you are interested, please call Chris Richardson on 01772 208964 or email me your CV - christopher.richardson@servicecare.org.uk

If this role isn't right for you, but you know someone who would fit perfectly to our engaged and devoted team and you refer them, you will receive a referral bonus of £250.

The benefits of working with SCS;

• A specialist, dedicated Social Work consultant offering single point of contact


• Exceptional referral bonuses - £250 per referral placed in to work!


• An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK


• Nationwide provider Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities.


• Payroll service twice a week.


• Ltd and PAYE payment options available.


• Annual training budget of up to £250 and continued online CPD training.


• Excellent Annual Loyalty schemes / bonuses.


• DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge.