Placements Officer

Placements Officer needed! Hourly Rate: £25ph Contract Duration: Until August 2026 Location: Borough Hall, MK42 Hours: Monday - Friday 8.45am - 5.20pm To be accountable and responsible for searching thoroughly and sourcing suitable quality placements, taking full responsibility in managing placement searches for children looked after and care leavers. Including for complex cases. To quality assure placement referral search forms, provider documents, checking providers have been regulated and highlighting where this isn't the case. To manage competing demands and have ability to work in a high-profile area and manage and prioritise requests. To ensure service managers approval for all searches and commissioned placement packages To negotiate packages and costing with external providers To collaborate with social work teams, particularly the fostering team, when trying to source placements to ensure options internally are exhausted before looking externally To manage a range of database systems to record and maintain up to date information about providers, commissioned packages, external placements and develop infrastructure for effective use of this information by the wider council To contribute To tender / framework development, evaluation and monitoring To record, maintain, analyse and share data for management and budgetary information and other monitoring data including attending resource panel, monitoring meetings as required. Including but not limited to Freedom of information requests, auditing, reviews To manage respite requests from in house foster carers and find suitable respite matches To communicate with compassion and confidentiality as often placements made be of a sensitive nature To manage payments to external stakeholders for placement packages To communicate clearly with external stakeholders and respond to payment queries Apply today! Blue Arrow is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and is committed to helping find great work opportunities for great people