Duties will be to;

• Work in a newly developed Children's Services Placement Team serving H&F's frontline social work teams to ensure all H&F looked after children are placed in secure, stable and safe placement arrangements so that they achieve the best outcomes.
• Organising and facilitating placements for looked after children, children at risk of becoming looked after and care leavers aged 0 - 25 across a range of placement settings including, but not limited to, foster care, residential children's homes, residential schools and semi-Independent living units.
• To lead the placement finding, matching and contracting process to support social work teams to make and maintain stable and cost-effective placements, which meet the assessed needs of looked after children.
• Ensuring robust quality assurance arrangements are in place across all placement categories and ensuring value for money.
• Completing all relevant documentation for each placement such Individual Placement Agreements, Child Profiles, Needs and Risk Assessments.
• Ensuring we achieve the best placements at the right price and that there is clear breakdown of placement costs.
• Knowledge of using the Mosaic social work casework system and the Commissioning Alliance's Careplace system for all vacancy searches.

If you are interested in this role please send your updated CV in the first instance.