Placements and Assessment Officer - Service Care Solutions - Social Work : Job Details

Placements and Assessment Officer

Service care Solution are currently recruiting for a Placements and Assessment Officer in Enfield.

The Placements and Assessment Officer will 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.

Pay rate - £22.08 per hour PAYE / £26.99 Umbrella

Main Responsibilities

As a Placements and Assessment Officer, you will be responsible for:

• To ensure QA visits to all residential and semi-independent resources where a looked after child is placed prior to placement or within agreed timescale and critically evaluate the provision against Ofsted evaluation reports.

• The post holder will be travelling within Enfield and across the country. There will be an expectation that the post holder will undertake at least 6 assessment visits per month, with the majority of placements being outside of the London Borough of Enfield.

• To collate and analyse the assessments information and to produce a report quarterly for the Team Manager, Senior Placements Officer and Head of Commissioning/AD - Strategic Commissioning.

• To ensure that robust management information is available to the Manager, Access to Resources and Head of Commissioning/AD-Strategic Commissioning in terms of quality, quantity and cost.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of the range of complex needs of Looked After Children and an understanding of the most appropriate interventions to meet those needs
• The post holder is expected to work on a flexible basis with some unsocial hours
• Experience in similar role

Working with Service Care Solutions comes with many benefits, including:

• A specialist consultant within an experience and dedicated recruitment team
• Excellent rates of pay
• Payroll services twice a week

If you are interested in the Placements and Assessment Officer, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Emma at Service Care Solutions on or email

Service Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed!