Placements & Assessment Officer

Enfield

£25/hr

Start date: ASAP

Contract: 3 - 6 months contract with a chance of extension

Hatched Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are looking for a 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.

Accountabilities

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

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

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

3. Experience in partnership working with statutory sector partners

4. Experience of market management and working with external providers

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

5. Knowledge of Safeguarding policies and procedures