Total Placement Service Placement Officer

Role Responsibility

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Children’s Strategic Commissioning Unit within the Total Placement Service (TPS) for a Placement Officer for a permanent full-time position. 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 you 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.

• The closing date is Sunday 18^th July 2021.

  Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

  Interviews take place virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Contact Details

If you are interested and would like any further details please contact: Jesse Reis 03000 411252, Jacqui Gouldson 03000 412016 or Francesca Glazier.

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.