Placement Coordinator

About The Role

The Home Finding Team/Placement Coordination Service is a busy yet rewarding service to be a part of. Placement Coordination Officers work with the guidance, support and supervision of the Team Manager and Service Manager to find good quality, safe and affordable placements for children referred into the Service. There are strong, well‑established relationships in place with the provider market as well as with in‑house services, social work teams across the Trust, the commissioning team, and the contracts and quality team.

There is a strong ethos of working together to ensure that Bradford’s children are in safe, quality placements. The service is busy and demand‑led, but there is strong peer support from a fantastic team.

• Timely and proactive searching for suitable placements for children referred into the Service
• Developing and maintaining appropriate provider relationships
• Working collaboratively with in‑house services, providers, social work teams and IROs regarding placements
• Managing a caseload of planned placement searches, ensuring each search is prioritised appropriately
• Ensuring provider offers are in line with contractual expectations and quality standards
• Negotiating placement cost / value for money where appropriate
• Ensuring all necessary funding approvals are in place for each child’s placement
• Ensuring systems are updated with searches and placements details
• Supporting the team with duty on a rota basis

• Ability to work well as part of a team, prioritise and flex work depending on cases
• Strong organisational skills and accurate, timely record‑keeping
• Commitment to putting the child at the heart of all work
• Values in line with the Trust’s values and a strong work ethic
• Experience forging strong working relationships and working across multi‑agency and partner services
• Understanding of commissioning and contractual elements of placements brokerage to ensure effective use of the Trust’s resources

• Generous annual leave – 31 days rising to 34 with service, plus bank holidays
• Excellent Local Government pension
• Family‑friendly policies and enhanced parental leave
• Health & wellbeing support, including Occupational Health and counselling
• Professional development and career progression opportunities
• National Living Wage employer

Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. All short‑listed candidates will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview, and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be carried out on preferred candidates.