Family Placement Worker

The Service & Team:

The Home Hub is part of Children & Family Services in the Together for Families directorate which provides support to children and families within the county.

The Role:

We are a small friendly and supportive team who work diligently and collaboratively in this rewarding role to find foster families but may also include residential childrens homes family assessment centres and supported accommodation for young people.

We work closely with childrens social workers and the fostering service to match our foster carers with the children and young people needing caring and loving foster families.

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 a well-matched foster family.

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:

Permanent 37 hours per week. We work from our office base in Truro and from home

What youll need to succeed:

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.

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 youll get in return:

Cornwall Councils 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

Application Process

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. Remember to demonstratewhy 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 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.