This role has a starting salary of £35,730 per annum, based on a 36-hour working week.
We are excited to be hiring a Resource Officer to join our fantastic Allocations team. We are a supportive team which sits within the Gateway to Resources Service. The Allocations team find placements for children and young people. We undertake fostering, residential, and supported accommodation searches across both our in-house provisions and external providers. The team is made up of a Service Manager, one Senior Commissioning Resource Officer and ten Resource Officers.
Rewards and Benefits
- 26 days' holiday rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service.
- Option to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave.
- An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support health and wellbeing.
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption, and dependents leave.
- A generous local government salary related pension
- Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more.
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
- Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources.
About the Team
We are a supportive team which sits within our Gateway to Resources Service in the Childrens, Families and Lifelong Learning Directorate. We work in partnership with other professionals and agencies to ensure that children and young people are identified suitably matched placements that will achieve positive outcomes.
About the Role
You will have responsibility for a caseload of children and young people for whom you will actively placement find. This will be for children, young people and care leavers who require planned and emergency placements in fostering, residential care or supported accommodation.
Shortlisting Criteria
To be considered for shortlisting, your application will clearly evidence that:
- You have the ability to negotiate appropriate levels of service provision to make sure that best value for money is secured.
- You can develop and maintain a good working knowledge of providers and be able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external professionals.
- You have effective organisational skills and be effective in managing your time being able to work under pressure whilst simultaneously working to tight deadlines.
- You are an excellent communicator and have good negotiation skills.
Please note, the contractual location for this role is currently Quadrant Court, however it is our intention to move within the local area to Victoria Gate in Central Woking later this year.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 27/06/2024 with interviews planned for 03/07/24 & 04/07/24.
Our Commitment
Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:
- The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
- The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form
Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role. We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.