Referral and Placements Officer (lead on Children with Disabilities)

at  Warwickshire County Council

You will work alongside our Referral and Placement Officers (RPO’s) whilst having a lead in Children with Disabilities. The RPO’s are responsible for all our external searches including residential, supported accommodation and short breaks. They have strong partnership relationships and connections that allows them to find the best match for our children whilst working closely with the children teams. In addition, this role will develop connections with good providers that can provide homes to meet our children’s needs including short breaks and help manage direct payments.
The ability to work in partnership is essential, along with meticulous organisation skills, enthusiasm, and creativity.
We are doing great work and we need great people to join us to continue to improve the lives of local children. If you’re someone who is prepared to get stuck in, who like us, wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage, and purpose, then we want you to work with us.
This role is initially fixed for 12 months but will be reviewed and may be extended.
If you want to build strong relationships and connections with families, join Warwickshire’s Children and Families service.
For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification below:
Referral and Placement Officer
Working for Warwickshire – This is the difference you make
Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them!
At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.
Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage – Warwickshire Pension Fund’
The benefits we offer include agile working, a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government, generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas, and access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform.