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Placements Officer

4 weeks ago

Bridgend, United Kingdom Hoop Recruitment Full time

**Placements Officer (Fostering)**

**Bridgend**
- **£13.18 PAYE or £17.15 Umbrella company**_

A Placements Officer is required to join Bridgend County Borough Council on a full time basis for an initial 3 month contract. Pay rate for this role is £13.18 PAYE (you will accrue holiday pay on top of this) or £17.15 paid via an umbrella company.

This role would be ideal for an experienced administrative worker to support the placements service in BCBC. Anyone with a commissioning and placements background would be preferred. The team currently work in a hybrid way being able to work from home and attend the office in central Bridgend where free parking within a short distance is available.

On a day to day basis the work will involve initiating searches for placements for care experienced children with fostering and residential providers via electronic systems and having direct conversations with providers in order to secure options. Providing and reviewing contracts with providers, undertaking quality assurance and completing invoicing. The team also provide information regularly to inform service need and development and need to maintain up to date records.

There are currently 3 workers in the team, a Senior commissioning and placements officer and 2 placements officers who share the work between them. The team are highly experienced and incredibly supportive.

Role and responsibilities:

- Identifying placements and adhereing to Bridgend’s compliance with its

requirements, using the Children’s Commissioning Support Resource in
conjunction with internal and external placement providers. This involves
consultation with practitioners regarding appropriate placement identification.
- Dealing with general enquiries and requests for foster placements by identifying where appropriate in-house and/or independent fostering agency foster carers. Working with independent fostering agencies and other service providers to enable foster placement referrals to be progressed.
- Conducting in house and independent provider placement searches and tenders using the Children’s Commissioning Resource Support.
- Providing information to the child’s social worker and to the in-house carers supervising social worker and/or when appropriate to the independent fostering agency to enable a suitable match and foster placement to be identified.
- Monitoring and managing vacancies for in-house and independent foster carers updating the database to enable placement referrals to be progressed with mínimal delay. Providing information about current in-house foster placement vacancies to the Emergency Duty Team.
- Ensuring that all information in the individual child’s placement file is continually kept up to date. Providing information about in-house foster placement vacancies/placements to the Accommodation and permanence panel.
- Once a tender has been awarded compiling the contract and forwarding to independent providers and maintaining the database for contracts.
- Ensuring compliance with contracts and that the Local Authority receives commissioned services.
- Provision of statistical information on placements referrals, use of CCSR and the outcomes for each referral.
- Gather information in preparation for placement stability meetings and attend when necessary.

Why join Hoop Social Work?
- Largest supplier of Qualified Social Workers across South Wales
- 17 years’ experience of the South Wales Social Work market
- PAYE and Umbrella payroll options available - you choose
- Dedicated point of contact (support team to cover whilst on leave)
- Twice weekly payroll
- Actively supplying every Local Authority in South Wales and West Wales
- Refer a friend scheme available

Please contact Sarah Leigh at Hoop Social Work on 02922 400519 to find out more today.

**Salary**: Up to £17.15 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Bridgend: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bridgend

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