Compliance Officer

Service care Solution are currently recruiting for a Compliance Officer in Lambeth to join the Fostering and Special Guardianship Service.

As a Compliance Officer, you will play a key role in the Fostering and Permanency Service, working across fostering support, fostering recruitment, the special guardianship team and the fostering panel as required to oversee the regulatory compliance elements of the approval process.

Main Responsibilities

As a Compliance Officer, you will be responsible:

• Initiation of DBS and Local Authority checks for Foster Carers, Special Guardians, their Adult household members and nominated Back up carers.


• Renewal of checks in line with local policy.


• Undertake checks with health visitors for prospective foster carers with young children and Ofsted for childminders.


• Ensure that stringent checks are undertaken on prospective and exiting carers to ensure that the children remain safe.


• Take the lead in the regulatory compliance elements of the approval process.


• Ensure the ongoing adherence to the company's own procedures in terms of checks and medicals and identify strategies to strengthen the current practice.

Requirements:

• Good understanding of Fostering minimum Standards, Fostering Legislation, and safeguarding


• Experience in Children's services and foster care delivery


• Enhanced DBS

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 services twice a week

If you are interested in the Compliance 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!