Southwark Council
Location
Central London | United Kingdom
Job description
Placements Officer – Fostering
Reference number: SC06140
Location: London
Schedule: Full-Time
Salary Range: £35,862 - £40,005
Contract Type: Fixed Term
The role
We are looking for a Placements Officer to join our Fostering duty team. This is a fast paced role, getting to know our carers and matching emergency, short and long term placements. It will involve working with colleagues across services, and building positive relationships to ensure the right information is recorded and communicated well to promote successful placement matches, with the necessary support services in place.
You will be supported as part of the wider Fostering, SGO & Connected Persons and Carer Recruitment Service.
About you:
We are looking for someone with excellent organisation and administration skills, who is able to keep to clear timescales, supporting others to adhere to these and escalating where necessary. This post requires exceptional communication skills with foster carers and all members of the organisation, ensuring clear and coherent messages as well as feedback is shared. You will need to be able to keep accurate records and support data analysis.
About Southwark:
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
Additional details
This role is fixed term for 12 months. Any internal staff would need to gain agreement from your substantive line manager if considering this is as a secondment opportunity.
Some flexibility required regarding working hours if placement requires sourcing however time in lieu provided.
Please note a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) at enhanced level is required.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 12 March 2024 at 23:59.
Interviews: 19 March 2024.
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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£35.86k - £40.01k per annum
