Placements Officer

As a Placements Officer working with the Placements Team, you will be responsible for commissioning a wide range of placements for children and young people. Including emergency, short- and long-term placement foster care placements, residential placements, and semi-independent placements. You will be expected to cover duty where you be responding to a wide range of duty related tasks, including payment queries etc. You will be working closely with a committed team of placements officers, commissioners, social workers, as well as our leaving care team to support young people’s transitions into independent living. You will be working collaboratively and respectfully with your colleagues across the department and with external providers, to deliver high-quality and well-matched placements for children looked after and accommodation for care leavers.
Enfield Council’s Children’s Placement Team are seeking a confident, imaginative and dynamic individual to be part of a diverse and vibrant team with a single focus to improve the outcomes for children, young people and families across Enfield. Based in the bubbling heart of Enfield Town, situated in a modern newly designed client facing service hub, the new office has bespoke areas for service users and is an environment which supports our smart working policy surrounded by small businesses, bars, restaurants, a buzzing high street and shopping centre. Our brand new high-tech multiagency office has good transport links into Central London and is easily assessable to the M25, A10 and A406.
You will demonstrate enthusiasm, tenacity to work with a demanding market to secure suitable placements for our children and young people. To bring creativity and innovation to the way we commission placements for children and young people.
Please note: this is a part‑time position and the salary will be paid on a pro rata basis.
Contact Details -
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Mary Palmer on 0208 132 2452 for an informal discussion.
If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Maria Evangelou at maria.evangelou@enfield.gov.uk.
Enfield’s Social Care Centre of Excellence confirms our commitment to creating and maintaining an environment for new and existing staff to be the best and deliver high quality social work to our most vulnerable children and young people. It brings our recruitment, professional development and support into the one portal for social care staff to see what we have to offer and how we are supporting them to continue to learn and develop on a professional basis. For more information please visit https://new.enfield.gov.uk/centreofexcellence/about-us/
“This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment”.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications have been received. Therefore, we advise that you complete fully and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.
Why it's great to work for Enfield Council:

- An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
- A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
- Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
- Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
- Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
- Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
- 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, click here to find out more.
If you have previously applied for this role within the past 6 months, unfortunately, a second application will not be considered.