Closing date:09 March 2025 An exciting employment opportunity has arisen within our fostering service for a dynamic and highly motivated individual to work within our busy Placement and Commissioning team. This role is central to ensuring we identify and match good quality in house and external foster homes and children’s homes for our children looked after. You will be the first point of contact to review and clarify information on children’s referrals and discuss this in detail with our foster carers, social workers and children’s homes. You will be integral in contributing to, and co-ordinating the preparation of individual packages of support for our children and carers to ensure the home best meets the child’s identified needs. You will use your excellent communication skills to build relationships with foster carers and social workers to understand the needs of children and match them to the right families. You will provide practical support to foster families when children move in with them, you might be visiting them, providing and sharing appropriate information, progressing the liquid logic recording process and ensuring children and carers are appropriately matched in the system so children’s journeys are recorded and carers can be paid.  The role may also involve liaising with our commissioned providers in respect of negotiating homes for children, coordinating funding and contract agreements. The post holder needs to have good ICT and written communication skills. You will be recording data, monitoring performance data and maintaining databases and spreadsheets. The role will assist with tracking and auditing, helping to maintain good quality and accurate data collection. Resilience and the ability to work within tight timescales is essential. This is a fast-paced role often responding to emergency situations. Flexibility regarding working hours is essential as homes for children sometimes have to be identified beyond core hours. The role will also involve occasional travel which may be out of the Hull area. We are proud that our full ILACS inspection confirms that services and outcomes for many children in Hull have improved over the last two years. The experiences and progress of children in care and care leavers in Hull are now rated as good.  At Hull City Council we are committed to our children and young people, and we are passionate about how we deliver services to them. That’s why we are developing and nurturing a culture that puts our children and young people at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our workforce to work together to find solutions, to be open, honest, and respectful, to take responsibility and listen and learn from others.   If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you. Hull is a changing local authority and it’s a fantastic time to join us and be a key player in supporting our journey.   For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Glen Priestly, Team Manager on 01482 612 800 orglen.priestly@hullcc.gov.uk Benefits of working for Hull City Council– Working for hull city council Why Hull is a great place to live and work– Working for hull city council How to apply for our jobs - Working for hull city council   ]]>