Member Job Opportunity: Action for Children - Referrals Officer - Fostering

Circa: £17,700
Department/Division: England North
​Location: Middlesbrough
​Contract Type: Permanent Part Time
(15 hours per week, Mon & Tue 9-5pm)
​Closing Date: 28 May 2020

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How does Action for Children work?
Action for Children does what's right, does what's needed and does what works for children in the UK. Every year, our team changes the lives of over 300,000 children, young people and families. 

Our Fostering North service provides a variety of placements including therapeutic fostering placements for young people. We recruit foster carers to provide safe, stable and successful foster placements for the most vulnerable children from local authorities throughout the Fostering North (Middlesbrough) area.

The role
As a Referrals Officer you will build strong relationships with Local Authority Commissioners and social work teams by being dependable, responsive and supportive. You will work in partnership to advocate for best practice when making placements and represent Action for Children's values in your delivery. You will support our social workers and carers by providing clear and concise information and support the delivery of safe processes to ensure placements are made in line with contractual specifications.

How will you make a difference?

• By placing the child at the centre of placement decisions
• By promoting clear processes and information sharing in a timely manner.
• By building strong relationships with commissioners and placement team who want to use the service, our carers and social workers.
• By being a strong face for Action for Children.

What will you need?

• Business Administration S/NVQ Level 2 or equivalent qualification or work experience (desirable but not essential as training will be provided).
• Great organisational skills.
• A capacity to work quickly and accurately in a fast-moving environment.
• Knowledge of child-centred processes, child development and needs-lead analysis.
• An ability to build reliable relationships with a range of people.
• Understanding and practicing confidentiality within your workload and the wider team

How we reward you
We have a first-rate employee benefit package including but not restricted to:

• Competitive salary – based on defined job roles and grades.
• Excellent paid holiday allowance- minimum 29 days (pro-rata) plus additional public/bank holidays
• We support you and welcoming new additions to your family – flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages
• We have a contribution scheme that matches a maximum of 7% employee and 7% employer contributions which includes a death in service benefit.

This is a current and live role and we shall be progressing as normal with our recruitment for this position.  To comply with social distancing, we intend to interview remotely for the time being. Details will be discussed with applicants who progress to interview stage.

For more information on this opportunity please contact Lynsey on 07920 428 847 or email [email protected] and quote reference number 3689.

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