Registered Children's Home Manager

Health Recruit Network; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Health Recruit Network is seeking a Registered Children Home Manager for the Rochdale area. The role leads an Ofsted-regulated residential provision, ensuring high standards of care, safeguarding, and regulatory compliance, with a strategic view over policies and resources.

You will manage staff, promote educational and behavioral outcomes for residents, and work with external partners to ensure quality care and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Two years' experience working in a residential children’s home.
• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or Level 4 equivalent.
• Willingness to work towards Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare.

Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for day-to-day operation/management of an Ofsted-regulated residential provision.
• Ensure highest standards of care and outcomes for young people through research, development, and partnership.
• Provide motivational leadership and development to the team and oversee training programmes.
• Maintain effective communication with social work teams, the Virtual School, clinicians, and other partners.
• Ensure compliance with safeguarding, regulatory requirements, and Ofsted readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Regulatory compliance

Staff development

Communication

Education

Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare

Level 4 Diploma in Children, Young People & Families

Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare

Job description

Registered Children Home Manager - Rochdale Area - Up to £60,000 - 1 Bed EBD Home - Full Time

We are happy to be working with a great new Children's Home who are looking to open their first Home. They have a long History of working in Social Care and feel it is the right time to maneuver into the Residential Sector. They aim to offer a caring, supportive residential environment for the children and young persons in its care. As part of this environment, a stable and consistent framework of appropriate routines and behavioral boundaries is seen as being of paramount importance.

Registered Children Home Manager Duties and Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the day-to-day operation/management of an Ofsted regulated residential provision.
• To ensure the highest standards of emotional, social and physical care, promoting best outcomes for young people through research, development and partnership.
• To ensure strategic overview and vision of the organization are embedded in policies, procedures, and management strategies in with teams within the Trust.
• To deliver highly motivated leadership and development to the team for which you are responsible.
• Ensure that training is relevant, robust, and effective and that the training program is dynamic, adaptive to the needs of current residents.
• To ensure that the staff team adhere to training requirements and timescales
• To develop high standards of communication with social work teams, the Virtual School, clinicians, and other key partners.
• To ensure the provision maximize resources within a planned timescale and ensure all services are delivered in a way which maximizes the participation of young people, respects their rights and is responsive to their wishes and views.
• To take overall responsibility for all regulatory requirements associated with Ofsted registration and the home’s Statement of Purpose.
• To ensure all safeguarding risks are acted upon immediately and the relevant action taken to mitigate the risk.
• Communicate effectively, in a timely way with all agencies and internal reports
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and always promote and ensure equality in practice.
• Undertake and participate in any required training programmed.
• Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with external providers as an integral part of the care pathway for children.
• To be able to challenge, in a sensitive way, engender collaboration for educational achievement and attainment, and foster a mutual responsibility for outcomes for all young people.
• Ensuring that the Educational needs of children in residence are assessed and provided for, liaising with educational professionals producing Personal Education Plans.

Management Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for all staff, delegating effectively and appropriately.
• To develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with partner agencies and clinical teams to ensure individual assessment plans and support packages are achievable and adhered to.
• To ensure leadership and management of staff including annual appraisal, regular individual supervision and induction and development is available to all staff working in these provisions.
• To retain up to date information relating to any legislative changes and disseminate this information throughout the service as required, including policy revision.
• To develop and ensure maintenance of monitoring systems in accordance with Health and safety requirements, ensuring that the necessary staff training is undertaken and recorded.
• Establish and ensure maintenance of administrative systems for children’s casework records, referrals, and assessments, including risk assessments, to ensure that staff apply them, and that confidentiality, standards and boundaries are adhered to.
• Ensuring that the physical buildings, fixtures, and fittings are maintained to a high standard and in good decorative order and is secure.
• Ensure there are effective formal and informal communication channels within the provision, that policy and procedural information is adhered to, so staff can always operate knowledgeably and safely.
• To ensure a robust and dynamic induction procedure is adhered to.
• To adhere to the provision policy and procedures on recruitment.
• Work in partnership with other professionals and agencies and develop and maintain a positive public relations image for the whole trust.
• Ensure the home is always Ofsted ready and prepare to respond to all requirements.
• Achieve and maintain an Ofsted rating of at least Good, with Outstanding being the goal within 3 years.
• Ensure clear, consistent, and professional record keeping, including audit and supervision.
• Ensure that complaints are handled quickly, effectively, and sensitively.
• Ensure that all safeguarding legislation, policies, and procedures are adhered to.
• Ensure that the provisions function in such a manner that staff, and children understand, recognize, and celebrate the diversity of cultures and beliefs within the local and wider community.
• Ensure that records in the provisions are stored and held in a manner which is compliant with regulation and policy.
• To be responsible for establishing and monitoring quality assurance compliance with Ofsted requirements and internal and external monitoring arrangements.
• To oversee the management of all the children’s individual support packages to ensure that they continue to be relevant and responsive to the individuals’ needs and wishes.

Registered Manager Children's Residential Requirements

• Two years experience working in a residential children’s home.
• Relationship building skills, bringing inspirational care and direction to young people.
• Must have the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare/ Level 4 Children, Young People and Families Practitioner and have completed or be willing to work towards the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare.
• A detailed working knowledge of the Quality Standards for Children’s Homes is crucial for this role.

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