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 Contract and Placements Officer to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon.
Pay Rate: £20 per hour (assignment rate)
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Job Purpose:
- The Contract and Placement Officer is part of team working to identify, source and commission suitable in house or external accommodation for any child that is “looked after” and as part of the placement process various tasks/notifications will need to be made, including information management, brokerage and payments services on behalf of CYPS.
- Provide carefully matched placements in accordance with the child/young person’s plan that considered the child/young person’s health, education, cultural, ethnic, religious and therapeutic needs. The placement officer will have responsibility for screening and collating placement and resource options received and presenting these to the social work team via an ‘Options Paper’ including all details of any potential placements including the contracted price / allowances rate and any discounts and enhancements applicable.
- Responsible for ensuring the placements offers the child/young person care and support in a safe and stable environment that complies with all required regulation i.e. Ofsted
Requirements of the Social Worker:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- An awareness of problems and issues that can impact on children and young people.
- Ability to assess and match children and young people’s needs to appropriate placement, understanding and using risk assessments in placement finding activity, in consultation with senior staff with the placement service.
- Ability to use initiative to ensure that process requirements are met but not to the detriment through delay of any potential placement or service options.
- Be competent and confident in the legalities information sharing in respect of vulnerable children and young people and also commercially sensitive data.
- Highly skilled in the use of all forms of IT and the ability communicate clearly both written and verbal.
- Experience of development within the role and knowledge in the relevant professional area.
- Experience of working in a supportive relationship with children, young people and families.
Contact:
This Social Worker job is advertised by Michael Bowen; 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.
