Resource Officer - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job Introduction

This role has a starting salary of £32,173 per annum, based on a 36 hour working week,

We currently have one permanent role and one 6 months fixed term role available.
Are you resourceful, resilient and highly motivated?

Are you committed to ensuring that children and young people live in good quality homes and achieve best outcomes?

If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you

Surrey County Council are seeking to recruit
Resource Officers to work in the Allocations Team. We are a supportive team which sits within the Gateway to Resources Service.

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.

You will have responsibility for a caseload of children 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 of supported accommodation.

In order to be considered for shortlisting, you will 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 will need to be an excellent communicator.

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values
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Additional Information
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 06/04/2023

Interviews are planned for the 17th and 20th of April 2023.

An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.

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Benefits
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role.

You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme.

For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit
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