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Placement Officer

2 months ago

Beckenham, Greater London, United Kingdom Akton Recruitment Ltd Full time
Placement Officer
Bromley London
£16.77 Per Hour

To discharge the Authority's responsibilities under the Children Act 1989 and other relevant legislation with respect to children in need, children in care and young people leaving the care system.

To discharge the Authority's responsibilities under ASCOF and other relevant legislation with respect to clients with disabilities, vulnerabilities and care needs.

To ensure the council's eligibility criteria, policies and procedure are followed in relation to service users.

To help create packages of support to prevent unnecessary reception of children and young people into care and to assist adult clients to remain in their own home where possible and/or to move to suitable and appropriate residential care.

To match service user needs to potential placements.
To monitor the performance of current providers of placements and support services.

To receive referrals and assessments from care managers and social workers for clients requiring placements in a timely, professional, efficient and positive manner.

To assess the needs and desired outcomes and to match these against an appropriate provision in order identify the best value placement for the client.

To make recommendations to the social worker and/or funding panel on the most appropriate and best value options that will meet the service user's needs.

To take responsibility for ensuring that the provider/organisation is both fit for purpose and able to meet the needs of the service user, including undertaking reference, registration and evaluation checks on the providers.

To ensure, where required, that notifications of service changes are made to the Finance department to ensure that, where required, financial assessments are undertaken of the client for calculation of contribution to the cost of the care package (adult servicesonly).

To commission packages of support for children and their families to prevent unnecessary receptions of young people into care.

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