Registered Manager - Children's Home

North East Combined Authority; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Changing Futures North East is recruiting a Registered Manager to lead a newly opened children’s home in Teesside. You will oversee care delivery, ensure compliance and deliver positive outcomes for looked-after children.

You will manage staff, supervise development and appraisal, oversee budgets and premises, and work within local and national standards. The role requires strong leadership, excellent communication, and a patient, solution-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and operate a newly opened children’s home.
• Experience managing a team and administrative duties.
• Budget and premises management in line with standards.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with staff and stakeholders.

Job description

Are you keen to join a well-established and successful Childrens Residential home with a great team culture and support?

We have the perfect job for you.

We are excited to recruit a Registered Manager to play a vital role within our children’s residential home.

About Changing Futures North East

Changing Futures North East is a vibrant and fast growing Charity that is in the privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 20 years, we have grown from an estate based youth club to a provider of children and families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.

As a Registered Manager, you will join a team of 30 or so staff where you will benefit from working with colleagues from your discipline, as well as people from a variety of other disciplines. The mix of professional backgrounds and trainings within the agency helps aid everyone’s learning and practice.

Changing Futures has particular strengths and experience in:

• Pioneering delivery of emotional wellbeing and mental health services – pioneering mentalisation based therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHP’s, CWP and Counsellors into the children’s emotional wellbeing system through two partnerships, as well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and children separately.
• Supporting care experienced young people – through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through mentoring and befriending support
• Reducing parental conflict services – delivering mediation and groupwork programmes, and supporting statutory agencies across England to embed a reducing parental conflict offer within their systems

Post Overview

Changing Futures North East is looking to employ a hardworking, reliable person who can Lead, manage and operate a newly opened children’s home. They will be experienced in a range of administrative skills and will have experience managing a team.

Changing Futures NE wants someone who is able to adapt quickly, has a willingness to learn and push themselves to do well.

We consider a great candidate for this role would have patience to take the time to understand the needs of the people accessing our services, be attentive and able to quickly understand how we can help and be able to find solutions when it’s not always obvious what people need.

We want someone who is not afraid to be responsible for all aspects of management of the home including the provision of high quality care and positive outcomes for children in placement, staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget and premises management in accordance with local and national standards and the service procedures. They will have excellent communication skills both verbally and written and have the tenacity to get the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible. They will understand how to best avoid delays to ensure the people using our services get the help they need when they need it.

If this sounds like you, you will join a Charity that helps children, young people and families in Teesside. You will benefit from an organisation that values it’s colleagues and recognises hard work. The role is varied, challenging and rewarding.

Key Responsibility

To be responsible for all aspects of management of the home including the provision of high quality care and positive outcomes for children in placement, staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget and premises management in accordance with local and national standards and the service procedures.