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About Us At Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About Our Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
Our Benefits
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the children’s commissioning team as a placement officer. In this role you will be sourcing, facilitating and managing placements for looked after children and care leaving. This is the great position for experienced placement officer who want to expand and develop there experience and those who have worked in similar roles and would like a new challenge.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You will be working alongside a fantastic team of placements officer, support officer and finance and information officer reporting to the LAC Team Manager.
Key aspects of the role are;
- Experience of working in partnership within multi-disciplinary teams, including work with external agencies and the community to develop and deliver a responsive, personalised, quality and coordinated service.
- Good stakeholder management and the ability to keep lines of communication open and clear, particularly when dealing with emergencies and complex or difficult situations.
- Work collaboratively as part of a team to support and develop positive and constructive partnerships with colleagues across departments and settings. Work with other authorities to deliver quality outcomes for customers.
- The ability to work in a high-profile area and take full responsibility in the search for placing Looked After Children.
- Develop close provider relationships with a view to ensure the best outcomes for our children and young people, negotiating fees for individual placements/ services – operating within the guidelines.
About You
- Experience of contract and procurement management.
- Knowledge of policies, procedures, codes of practice, standards and best practice guidance that assists the senior joint commissioner.
- Good planning and time management skills, including ability to manage competing priorities.
- Good interpersonal skills including presentation (verbal and written) and communication skills and the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with providers, care professionals, users and carers, including reconciling conflicting views and negotiating contracts.
- Good reasoning/analytical skills; ability to work with complex ideas; numerate.
- Experience of working in partnership within multi-disciplinary teams, including work with external agencies and the community to develop and deliver a responsive, personalised, quality and coordinated service.
Qualifications
Degree level or equivalent
Essential For The Role
DBS check is required for the role.
Email:
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Telephone:07929755526
Interviews for this job will be between 3rd/7th January 2025.
(Internal Candidates - Please seek your line manager's approval before applying for this role as a secondment.)
Email:
Telephone:07929755526
Interviews for this job will be between 3rd/7th January 2025.
(Internal Candidates - Please seek your line manager's approval before applying for this role as a secondment.) 
