Contract Type: Fixed term contract (until 31st Dec 2025)

 

Contract Reason: Specific project

 

Secondment Opportunity: Permanent employees are encouraged to apply and will be supported as part of our workforce development 

Salary: Grade H. Scale 29 - £37, 336 to Scale 31 - £39,186

 

Hours: 36 hours per week

 

Base Location: Ashton Old Library 

 

Closing Date: 25th April 2024 

 

Assessment Date: To be confirmed 

 

The role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an organised and dedicated Placement Officer to join Tameside’s Brokerage and Monitoring Team.

 

The role involves working in a fast-paced environment seeking and responding to information, searching for packages for children and young people in a range of settings appropriate to their needs these include, foster care, residential children’s homes, semi-independent and supported accommodation.

 

The successful candidate will be working proactively with a range of partners and professionals both internally and externally. They will also undertake monitoring of provision ensuring it meets the needs of children and young people to promote wellbeing whilst responding to alerts on risks, threats and ongoing issues to maintain sufficiency and sustainability.

 

About you

You will be familiar with and have the ability to work within legislation and guidance preferably already working within or experience of placements, children’s services or residential settings. With a flexible approach and ability to respond to changing priorities you will be able to work under pressure and to tight timescales and deadlines with the ability to influence, liaise and negotiate at appropriate levels.

 

We are looking for candidates who are proficient in the use of IT to maintain effective case management and recording systems.

 

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

 

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do.  We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage.  Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do. 

 

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

 

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Amy Glassman, Team Manager on 07811 371729.

 

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer.  Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

 

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

 

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