Children’s Placements Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: SO1
Salary: £35,577 – £36,567 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 13th October 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 21st October 2024

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

The Placement Brokerage Team in Haringey Children’s Services is looking for a placement officer to join with a focus on securing placements for children in care, alongside sourcing temporary accommodation for families with NRPF and family support services.
You will work closely with our social work, commissioning and finance teams, internal/external fostering, residential and supported accommodation and TA providers to explore suitable placement /accommodation options.
Essentially you will be responsible for sourcing and matching suitable placements for children. Participate in a duty rota system dealing with all placement queries and requests, ensuring placement referrals contain sufficient and relevant information, managing and progressing a placement finding case load. Negotiating packages, completing Individual Placement Agreements and ensuring services are updated on the Children’s Services data base.

About You

We are looking for an approachable, resilient, flexible person to join an established team, who is able to work with the team but also be able to work independently and use their own initiative. Ideally they will have experience of working in a brokerage/ placements team or demonstrate proven transferable skills and understanding of the needs of children and young people in care.
Excellent communication and partnership working to develop and maintain relationships at all levels. Alongside good IT and negotiation skills.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk