Placements and Brokerage Officer

£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.

The role will involve completing due diligence checks relating to new providers and responding positively and professionally to referrals from Social Workers, ensuring the quality of information enables the identification of placements, via screening, that meet a child or young person's assessed needs. Building relationships with colleagues and partner agencies across a wide range of external organisations and internal departments is key to this role so that we can ensure our children and young people are matched to the right placements.

The successful candidate will work with collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure that care placements comply with the required national standards and appropriate regulatory bodies frameworks, ensuring that the relevant placement-related documentation is completed following placement agreement., This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

We are looking for highly motivated, energetic person with great interpersonal skills and the capacity to forge excellent relationships and effective multi-agency working. You will be passionate and will have the ability to work at pace in a challenging environment.

You will have the ability to manage multiple objectives within timescales while achieving required outcomes. You will have excellent analytical skills and lateral thinking and the ability to develop creative and innovative solutions. You will also have excellent IT skills, in particular Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel. You must be capable of working on your own initiative to help drive and enable improved outcomes for the looked after children of Bolton.

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.