Placements and Brokerage Officer

Overview

£34,434 to £38,220 – pay award pending

This is an exciting opportunity to join Bolton Council’s Strategic Commissioning Team as a Placements and Brokerage Officer. The remit of the Placements and Brokerage Officer will be to coordinate a variety of searches for our Bolton children and young people, to source placements, based on internally quality assured referrals from social work teams.

Responsibilities

• Complete due diligence checks relating to new providers and respond positively and professionally to referrals from Social Workers, ensuring that information enables the identification of placements that meet a child or young person’s assessed needs.
• Screen and identify placements that meet the assessed needs of children and young people.
• Build relationships with colleagues and partner agencies across a wide range of external organisations and internal departments to ensure the children and young people are matched to the right placements.
• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure that care placements comply with the required national standards and appropriate regulatory bodies frameworks, and ensure the relevant placement-related documentation is completed following the placement agreement.
• Manage multiple objectives within timescales while achieving required outcomes, applying analytical skills, lateral thinking and developing creative and innovative solutions.
• Monitor and maintain accurate records and documentation using IT skills in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel to support reporting and quality assurance.
• Take initiative to help drive and enable improved outcomes for the looked after children of Bolton.

Qualifications

• Highly motivated, energetic, with great interpersonal skills and capacity to forge excellent relationships and effective multi-agency working.
• Passionate about working at pace in a challenging environment.
• Excellent analytical skills, lateral thinking and ability to develop creative solutions.
• Excellent IT skills, particularly Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Capability to work on your own initiative.
• Specified level of spoken English as per the role requirements.

Benefits

• Discounts and exclusive gym membership prices.
• Salary sacrifice schemes.
• A generous annual leave allowance.
• Flexible work opportunities.
• Access to a Pension Scheme.
• A range of employee wellbeing and support services.

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