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UtrechtHybrid28 hours/week3-6months
A partnership of several municipalities in a specific region works closely together within the social domain.
- New regional agreements for youth care with residential placement will come into effect on January 1, 2027.
- Part of the new working method is a single regional placement route with a placement coordinator.
- The new position will be housed within a regional team in one of the collaborating municipalities.
- Until the structural placement coordinator has started and the handover is completed, the position will be temporarily filled by a quartermaster.
- You are in the midst of implementing a new procurement process that is still evolving.
What you will do.
- Shape and implement the renewed process and working agreements around residential placements.
- Handle concrete placement requests and seek suitable and available options within the contracted regional offerings.
- Advise referrers and co-think about the appropriate form of residential care from an 'as home-like as possible' perspective, without taking over their authority.
- Coordinate the alignment between referrers and youth care providers until placement and ensure a clear handover.
- In case of stalled placements, identify the bottleneck, organize the agreed follow-up route, and involve the correct parties.
- Register placement and bottleneck information, and report recurring signals for monitoring, contract management, and offer development.
- Actively participate in the Youth Care Residential Project Group and contribute, from future practice, to the setup, implementation, and testing of the placement route.
Profile
- We are explicitly not looking for a policy advisor, but a decisive, practical professional who takes initiative, connects parties, and solves complex placement issues.
- You actively participate in the Youth Care Residential Project Group and help make the new working method practically operational.
- Practical and enthusiastic professional, who easily makes contact, takes initiative, and brings energy to collaboration.
- Can professionally advise and co-think without taking over responsibilities from others.
- Maintains an overview under time pressure, knows how to connect parties, and knows when escalation to another responsible party is needed.
- Works structured and carefully and communicates clearly with executive professionals, regional colleagues, and youth care providers.
- Enjoys contributing to a new working method, identifies what doesn't work in practice, and helps convert it into a workable solution.
What they ask
- Minimum of a completed HBO (higher professional education) degree.
- Current knowledge of the Youth Act and the organization of youth care (especially residential youth care).
- Agrees to the stated secondment condition.
Preferences.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience in or around youth care, access, care mediation, or regional collaboration.
- Within the required 3 years of work experience, a minimum of 1 year of experience with coordination or process management in a multi-party environment with multiple responsibilities.
- Within the required 3 years of work experience, a minimum of 1 year of experience with complex youth care or placement issues and collaboration between referrers/local teams and providers.
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