Senior Admin Officer

Admin & Adminstration
January 5, 2024

Job Description

Job title: Senior Admin Officer

Company: Brackenberry

Job description: We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Southwark to assist with the appointment of a Senior Admin Officer, on a 3-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for coordinating, responding to, and managing in house Foster Carer requests from Social Workers and for liaison with our Access to Resources Team
  • Respond positively and professionally to referrals by Social Workers, ensuring the quality of information enables the identification of in house Foster Carers that meet our Children/ Young Peoples assessed needs.
  • Working with Supervising Social Workers to ensure our in – house Foster Carers are available and prepared to take Children and Young People
  • Working to support Fostering and ART to identify and facilitate placements with our in – house Foster Carers
  • Liaising with ART and Supervising Social Workers to maximise placements of children and Young People with our in – house Foster Carers
  • Keeping detailed records of discussions, whilst tracking, monitoring and updating our internal Foster Carer records and capacity

Requirements:

  • Knowledge of the placement needs of looked after children
  • A strong interest in promoting permanence and placement stability
  • Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and key fostering and residential legislation, guidance and National Minimum Standards
  • Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children’s agencies
  • Experience of developing and managing information systems and using data to monitor, track and evaluate performance
  • Experience of working with foster carers and a commitment to achieving placement stability through the development of placement support services
  • Experience of interpreting performance data from a complex database to ensure sound strategic management of the service.
  • Experience of working using your own initiative, organising your own workloads, determine priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Experience of financial and resource management within a social care environment

Please note:

  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

REF: RQ1141670

Expected salary:

Location: Southwark, South East London

Job date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 23:51:37 GMT

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