The Service & Team:
We are seeking a permanent full-time (37 hours p/w) Home-finder to join our friendly and supportive Home Hub team; we work from our office base in Truro and from home.
We work diligently and collaboratively in this rewarding role to find homes (foster homes or children’s residential homes) for the most vulnerable children and young people in Cornwall. We work closely with children’s social workers and the fostering service to match our foster carers with the children and young people needing caring and loving foster families.
The Role:
You will work in a small and very supportive team. Your day will involve reading referrals for children, liaising with social workers for the children, foster carers and/or their social workers and other professionals who know the child in order that you can learn more about them and their needs to enable you to find them safe and happy homes. You will be organised, have an eye for detail and be able to manage a number of tasks with a crucial part of the role ensuring the safeguarding of children and young people.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
We work 8:45-5:15 Monday to Thursday and 8:45-4:45 on Fridays. We work from home and from our office in Truro.
What you’ll need to succeed:
We are looking for someone with a flexible attitude and diverse range of skills who can work positively and creatively with a number of stakeholders including commissioned providers in order to find a suitable, well-matched, home for children that will meet their needs and enable them to improve their outcomes. We have excellent working relationships with providers and an important part of the role is building and maintaining those relationships.
You will have good interpersonal and communication skills and a professional approach applying discretion and diplomacy. The successful applicant will enjoy the challenge of working within a busy team environment and display flexibility while often working to strict deadlines.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you’ll get in return:
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
· a competitive salary.
· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Shelley Cooper - shelley.cooper@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Application Instructions:
We will be assessing the information you provide in your supporting statement to understand how your knowledge, skills and experience meet the requirements of the role. You should upload a supporting statement that clearly addresses each of the following points:
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV - please do not upload both. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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Services: Care for the elderly, children’s safeguarding, libraries, road maintenance, fire and rescue service, recycling, parks, street cleaning, countryside management, social housing, town planning, tourism support and trading standards.
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