Family Placement Worker

The Service & Team

We are seeking a permanent full-time (37 hours p/w) Home-finder to join our friendly and supportive Home Hub team; we work from our office base in Truro and from home.

We work diligently and collaboratively in this rewarding role to find homes (foster homes or children's residential homes) for the most vulnerable children and young people in Cornwall. We work closely with children's social workers and the fostering service to match our foster carers with the children and young people needing caring and loving foster families.

The Role

You will work in a small and very supportive team. Your day will involve reading referrals for children, liaising with social workers for the children, foster carers and/or their social workers and other professionals who know the child in order that you can learn more about them and their needs to enable you to find them safe and happy homes. You will be organised, have an eye for detail and be able to manage a number of tasks with a crucial part of the role ensuring the safeguarding of children and young people.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern

We work 8:45-5:15 Monday to Thursday and 8:45-4:45 on Fridays. We work from home and from our office in Truro.

What you'll need to succeed

We are looking for someone with a flexible attitude and diverse range of skills who can work positively and creatively with a number of stakeholders including commissioned providers in order to find a suitable, well matched, home for children that will meet their needs and enable them to improve their outcomes. We have excellent working relationships with providers and an important part of the role is building and maintaining those relationships.

You will have good interpersonal and communication skills and a professional approach applying discretion and diplomacy. The successful applicant will enjoy the challenge of working within a busy team environment and display flexibility while often working to strict deadlines.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert What you'll get in return

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information

Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached here