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Fostering Placements Officer

3 months ago

Seaham, United Kingdom Concept Resources Full time
Job Description

Description of role

 

The postholder will be part of the Home Finder Team. The function of the team will be:

 

· Work with social workers and their teams to identify care providers children and young people who need to be looked after by the Local Authority.

 

· To provide a child centred approach in their identification of suitable Care providers.

 

· To provide information to social workers to enable them to match the child/young person to the best available resource.

 

· To provide a single port of call for providers, commissioners, and operational colleagues

 

· To establish and maintain effective positive working relationships with external providers.

 

· To work closely with Childrens Commissioning team to support processes for commissioning providers to meet the needs of children/young people.

 

 

 

 

 

The postholder will:

 

· Contribute to ensuring timely, effective, and cost-effective placements are sought for all Children and Young People to meet their needs through identifying in house resources and/or externally commissioned provisions

 

· Finalise placement agreements for each individual child/young person placed with Commissioned providers.

 

· Contribute to the development, implementation, delivery and management of countywide, multi-agency services for children, young people and their families;

 

· Support a culture of learning and continuous development through encouraging and supporting team members to demonstrate their commitment to training and development activity.

 

 

Duties and responsibilities

 

Listed below are the responsibilities this role will be primarily responsible for:

 

· providing an effective and timely response to all requests for placements for children and young people.

 

· ensuring a professional and approachable manner, in person and via telephone and email communication

 

· working effectively in partnership with all other areas of the service

 

· ability to gather and analyse information effectively and efficiently

 

· approaching Independent providers enthusiastically and proactively to maximise placement choice and placement stability for children and young people

 

· providing a child centred, respectful, persistent and solution focussed approach to requesting and securing placements for children and young people

· ability to respond to emergency requests for placements for children and young people

· ability to work with independent providers to effectively plan and prepare for future placement needs

 

· keeping effective records of placement requests and search activity for all on/off framework searches detailing providers approached, their responses and ensuring records reflect discussions with operational colleagues re identified resources.

 

· ensure records provide sufficient detail to respond to requests for information regarding placement activity

 

The above is not exhaustive and the post holder will be expected to undertake any duties which may reasonably fall within the level of responsibility and the competence of the post as directed by the Head of Children’s Services.

 

 

Organisational responsibilities

 

· Values and behaviours

To demonstrate and be a role model for the council’s values and behaviours to promote and encourage positive behaviours, enhancing the quality and integrity of the services we provide.

 

· Smarter working, transformation and design principles

To seek new and innovative ideas to work smarter, irrespective of job role, and to be creative, innovative and empowered. Understand the operational impact of transformational change and service design principles to support new ways of working and to meet customer needs.

 

· Communication

To communicate effectively with our customers, managers, peers and partners and to work collaboratively to provide the best possible public service. Communication between teams, services and partner organisations is imperative in providing the best possible service to our public.

 

· Health, Safety and Wellbeing

To take responsibility for health, safety and wellbeing in accordance with the council’s Health and Safety policy and procedures.

 

· Equality and diversity

To promote a society that gives everyone an equal chance to learn, work and live, free from discrimination and prejudice and ensure our commitment is put into practice. All employees are responsible for eliminating unfair and unlawful discrimination in everything that they do.

 

· Confidentiality

To work in a way that does not divulge personal and/or confidential information and follow the council’s policies and procedures in relation to data protection and security of information.

 

·    Climate Change

To contribute to our corporate responsibility in relation to climate change by considering and limiting the carbon impact of activities during the course of your work, wherever possible.

 

· Performance management

To promote a culture whereby performance management is ingrained and the highest of standards and performance are achieved by all. Contribute to the council’s Performance and Development Review processes to ensure continuous learning and improvement and to increase organisational performance.

 

· Quality assurance (for applicable posts)

To set, monitor and evaluate standards at individual, team and service level so that the highest standards of service are delivered and maintained. Use data, where appropriate, to enhance the quality of service provision and support decision making processes.

 

 

 

 

· Management and leadership (for applicable posts)

To provide vision and leadership to inspire and empower all employees so they can reach their full potential and contribute to the council’s values and behaviours. Managers and leaders must engage in personal development to ensure they are equipped to lead transformational change; always searching for better ways to do things differently to meet organisational changes and service priorities.

 

 

· Financial management (for applicable posts)

To manage a designated budget, ensuring that the service achieves value for money in all circumstances through the monitoring of expenditure and the early identification of any financial irregularity.

 

The above is not exhaustive and the post holder will be expected to undertake any duties which may reasonably fall within the level of responsibility and the competence of the post as directed by your manager.



Requirements
fostering care