TPS Placement Officer

Role Responsibility

Strategic and Corporate Services Strategic Commissioning

Total Placement Service (TPS)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Children’s Strategic Commissioning Unit within the Total Placement Service (TPS) for a Placement Officer for 0.6 FTE permanent post. 22.2 hours per week - Monday to Friday.  The usual base location for this role is Sessions House, Maidstone, however as a result of Covid 19 all TPS staff are currently working from home.  Upon appointment the successful candidate will work from home until such time the team returns to a KCC building. 

TPS manages all referrals for placements for Kent’s Children in Care and is based in Maidstone. TPS is a key element of the children’s services strategy to meet the authority’s sufficiency duty and ensuring that placements for Children in Care meet their needs.

The TPS team will aim to provide a single point of referral for:

• advice on placements
• resource finding for In House & external placements
• centralised purchasing/brokerage of services
• payment and invoice management of all services purchased

The post is varied and interesting providing specialist advice/support on placements; resolving complex issues, managing liaison between key stakeholders; identifying and procuring external resources. In order to be eligible for the post you will need to possess the following skills/experience:

• Highly motivated, excellent organisational, administration and communication skills
• Ability to meet strict deadlines and targets, prioritise and plan effectively
• Good negotiation skills and high level of interpersonal and communication skills at all levels.
• Have an excellent knowledge of IT systems; Excel, Word and Outlook
• Awareness of Data Protection and confidentiality issues.

This is a real opportunity to be part of the transformation of services to support our most vulnerable children and young people.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The closing date is Monday 20^th July 2020

Interviews will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams/Skype on Monday 27^th July 2020/Tuesday 28^th July 2020

Contact Details

Alina-Andreea Morosan 03000 419973, Jesse Reis 03000 411252 or Jacqui Gouldson 03000 412016