Placements Officer

Placements Officer needed!Hourly Rate: 25phContract Duration: Until August 2026Location: Borough Hall, MK42Hours: 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 packagesTo negotiate packages and costing with external providersTo collaborate with social work teams, particularly the fostering team, when trying to source placements to ensure options internally are exhausted before looking externallyTo 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 councilTo contribute To tender / framework development, evaluation and monitoringTo 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 ..... full job details .....