Placements & Assessment Officer (PO1)

Job Category : Social Care – Unqualified

Location : Thomas Hardy House, Enfield Council

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £22.08

Placements & Assessment Officer Commissioning placements for Looked After Children and Quality Assurance on different type of placements

Purpose of the Role

To commission placements and support services for Looked After Children and care leavers, ensuring that the needs of individual children and young people are closely matched within available resources and using Best Value principles and to have the lead responsibility for assessments on all IFA, Residential and Semi-Independent resources commissioned by Enfield.

Skills, Experience

(In this section you should list between 4 and a maximum of 8 essential recruitment and selection criteria and 2 desirable criteria). The information you provide in this section will be used in the recruitment application process to assess the suitability of job applicants.

Essential:

1. Knowledge of the range of complex needs of Looked After Children and an understanding of the most appropriate interventions to meet those needs

1. Excellent organisational skills including the ability to manage competing demands, respond to emergency situations and manage your workload effectively.

1. Experience in partnership working with statutory sector partners

1. Experience of market management and working with external providers

1. The main requirement of the post holder will be an expectation to travel across the country to undertake detailed assessments and monitoring visits to all Looked After Children’s resources.

1. The post holder is expected to be resilient with regards to the emotional demands the work may pose.

1. The post holder is expected to work on a flexible basis with some unsocial hours.

Desirable:

1. It is desired that the post holder should be a car driver.

1. Experience of working within a statutory children’s services/setting

1. Knowledge and experience of systems for meaningful engagement with young people in planning, delivering and reviewing services

Knowledge*

1. A knowledge of the Childrens Act 2012.
2. A knowledge of the Leaving Care Act
3. A knowledge of Children Homes Regulations 2010
4. Knowledge of Out of authority placement of looked after children – Volume 2

Knowledge of Safeguarding policies and procedures

Qualification(s)*

1. Qualification in the use of IT systems to produce data reports and trend analyses
2. Willingness to undertake a Commissioning course

Other Special Requirements*

1. Ability to following the Lone Working Policy.

2. Car driver preferred as the post will include extensive travel and knowledge and adherence to the lone workers policy.