Member Job Opportunity: Community Foster Care - Business Support Officer (Placements & Finance)

Job Location: Gloucester
Pay scale: £19,300 to £22,500
Hours: Full-time - 37.5 hours per week
Closing date: 31st Jan 2023

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Main Duties and Responsibilities

To run the organisation’s placement and referral management process

• Monitor the referrals inbox
• Collate information on referrals
• Use the organisation’s shortlisting criteria to filter referrals
• Send referrals that meet shortlisting criteria to relevant Supervising Social Workers
• Make appropriate recordings on Charms
• Ensure correct paperwork is collected e.g. IPAs
• Collate and format foster carer profile formats
• Co-ordinate effective referral responses, through the finalising of expressions of interest.
• Follow up outcome with foster carers.
• Work with Senior Leadership Team to develop this process and ensure the organisation is best placed to make quality expressions of interest.
• To ensure a process is in place so that this process is always active.
• To provide administrative support to the social work team, supporting with any administration relating to the delivery of foster care placements in conjunction with the Registered Manager and the Business Development Manager.
• Support with the administration of placement planning meetings.
• To lead on implementation and on-going oversight of the ‘New placement’ process
• To lead on implementation and on-going oversight of the ‘end of placement’ process.
• Develop a knowledge of the organisations pricing structures and work in conjunction with the service manager and business development manager to cost support work and fostering  packages.
• To support the Finance Manager with all finance functions as required. This includes (but is not limited to): accounts receivable, accounts payable, direct income and expenditure, petty cash etc.

Please see full role description and email your application form to [email protected] in the first instance. 

Full details and application documents here