Placement Coordinator

Job Introduction

About The Role

The Home Finding Team/Placement Coordination Service is a busy yet rewarding service to be a part of.

Placement Coordination Officers work with the guidance, support and supervision of the Team Manager and Service Manager to find good quality, safe and affordable for children referred into the Service.

There are strong, well-established relationships in place with the provider market as well as with inhouse services, social work teams across the Trust, the commissioning team, and the contracts and quality team. There is a strong ethos of working together to ensure that Bradford’s children are in safe, quality placements.

The service is busy and demand-led, but there is strong peer support from a fantastic team.

Key Responsibilities

Placement Coordination Officers will be responsible for:

• Timely and proactive searching for suitable placements for children referred into the Service
• Developing and maintaining appropriate provider relationships
• Working collaboratively with inhouse services, providers, social work teams and IROs regarding placements
• Managing a caseload of planned placement searches, ensuring each search is prioritised appropriately
• Ensuring provider offers are in line with contractual expectations and quality standards
• Placement cost / Value for Money negotiations where appropriate
• Ensuring all necessary funding approvals are in place for each child’s placement
• Ensuring systems are updated with searches and placements detail
• Supporting the team with duty on a rota basis

About You

• The best Home Finding/placements teams are made up of a variety of people with a mixture of skills, experiences and qualifications.
• You will need to be able to work well as part of a team, prioritise and flex your work depending on cases, work quickly and effectively, be organised, ensure recordings are accurate and timely, and put the child at the heart of all you do.
• Values in line with the Trust’s values and a strong work ethic are key. The service consists of colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and qualifications including social work, teaching, housing, commercial and commissioning. Applications are welcome from those with the right values, skills and mindset – this is a busy yet rewarding service.
• Relationships are fundamental to being able to find children’s placements, so you will need to be able to forge strong working relationships as well as have experience working across multi-agency and partners.
• We all have a responsibility to ensure that the Trust’s money is used wisely, so you’ll need to be able to understand the commissioning and contractual elements of placements brokerage, ensuring that any placements made make effective use of the Trust’s resources.

You’ll also be joining an organisation that truly values its people, offering a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance, including:

• Generous annual leave - 31 days rising to 34 with service, plus bank holidays
• Excellent Local Government pension
• Family-friendly policies and enhanced parental leave
• Health & wellbeing support, including Occupational Health and counselling
• Professional development and career progression opportunities
• we are a National Living Wage employer

Next Steps

• For an informal discussion or any queries please contact Pamela Felix, Team Manager ***email_hidden***

The closing date for this role is 12 July 2026 with interviews taking place during w/c 20 July 2026.

Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.

If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview.

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check including a check against the Children’s barred list, will be carried out on preferred candidates.

• Salary PO1 - SCP 27 - 30 - £38,220 - £40,777
• Job Reference bradfordcft/TP/653/616
• Contract Type Full Time / Permanent
• Closing Date 12 July, 2026
• Job Category Corporate Parenting
• Location Bradford, United Kingdom
• Posted on 29 June, 2026