Placement Support Officer – Sourcing Care

Our Adult Social Care Service has an exciting 18 fixed term opportunity for a motivated Placement Support Officer within its Sourcing Care function. This post is available due to promotion within the service. Our sourcing care team is expanding and it’s a brilliant time to join us. The team deals with all enquiries and service requests relating to bedded placements, including residential, nursing, and complex care. We play a vital role in ensuring those we support are able to secure the care they require in a timely and efficient way.

If you have experience in a residential nursing home, hospital discharge or adult social care setting or as a Senior Carer in a care home, and are looking for the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you.

We recognise the importance of a good work life balance and do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including some working from home, compressed hours, and other arrangements. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process (and beyond) if these are options you’d like to explore.

Here’s what you can expect to be doing

Working within our supportive, busy team, as a Placement Support Officer you will liaise with staff and managers across a range of agencies and forums (including statutory health and care services, our independent care provider market, and the wider voluntary and community sector) to actively coordinate high quality, person-centred care and support for individuals in an efficient manner.

A Few Things About You

To join us as a Placement Support Officer you will:

• Have some knowledge of the statutory, regulatory and policy framework within which care sourcing/brokerage functions operate and a sound understanding of adult social care.
• Be able to communicate and negotiate with confidence, problem solve, motivate and effectively influence others, to obtain the desired service outcome for individuals we support.
• Have some prior supervisory experience.

Additional information

For more information about the role, please contact: Kelly Senior via

Interview date: 28/04/2022

Why choose Somerset County Council

We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

• We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.
• Generous annual leave allowance, with the opportunity to purchase additional leave.
• Staff discounts in gyms.
• Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.
• Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.
• A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings.
• My Staff Shop offering discounts in shops, online shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, insurance benefits and more.

DBS information

This job requires a basic criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.