Registered Manager - Children's Home (Complex Needs)

Together Trust Centre; Marple; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

The Together Trust is seeking a Registered Manager for a Short Stay Children's Home in Romiley, Stockport. You will lead a busy residential service for young people with autism and learning difficulties, ensuring safe, high-quality short-stay respite aligned with safeguarding standards.

Hours are 37.5 per week, with a salary around £49,953 per year plus enhancements and a generous benefits package. Application emphasises commitment to safeguarding and professional development.

Qualifications

• Registered Manager’s Award (Level 5 RMA Children) and related qualifications.
• Significant residential childcare experience across settings.
• Strong understanding of Ofsted regulations and expectations.
• Demonstrated leadership and ability to drive service delivery to standards.
• Commitment to professional development and evidence of CPD.
• Experience collaborating with statutory and voluntary agencies and flexible to need.

Responsibilities

• Provide a caring, safe, secure and accepting environment for young people.
• Support staff through positive, effective teamwork to high care standards.
• Develop and monitor policies and safeguarding practices with the team.
• Supervise key working and complex safeguarding cases where relevant.
• Promote safeguarding awareness and assess risk; coordinate care plans.
• Build positive links with communities and external agencies to achieve outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Time management

Team management

Education

Level 5 RMA Children

QCF Level 3/4 CFYP or NVQ Children’s Residential

Job description

The Together Trust is one of the North West's leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

We are looking for a registered manager for a Short Stay Children's Home in in Romiley, Stockport. This is an exciting opportunity as a Registered Manager; you will be managing an existing established children's home.

The Children's Home support young people and their families, providing short term respite. All the young people that we support in this service have Autism and Learning Difficulties as well as other complex needs. You will work with your team to provide a safe and nurturing home for the young people that you support; we provide compassionate, nurturing care for children and families who need a short break so that they can rest and re-charge.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

Location: Romiley, Stockport

Hours: 37.5 hours - Full Time / Permanent

Salary: £49,953 per year (25.61ph)

Enhancements:

• Sleep-in allowance of £107.60 per sleep shift
• Weekend hours paid at time and a quarter (£32.01)
• On call payments of £40 – Monday to Friday, £80 for weekends, £120 for bank holidays
• 27 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoptive leave
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
• Proud to be a real living wage employer
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance programme for you and adults at your home

We are looking for a registered manager for our Children's Residential Service in Romiley, Stockport. This is an exciting opportunity as a Registered Manager to oversee a busy service that provides short stay respite provision to Young People with Autism, Learning Difficulties and different complex needs. You won’t just be supporting a short break for the Young People that we are also supporting the wider family unit.

Responsibilities

• Provide a caring, safe, secure and accepting environment that meets the basic physical, health, social needs and rights of the young people.
• Support less experienced staff via positive and effective team working, to achieve high-quality standards of care.
• Participate to establish an enabling culture, which individually and in groups, actively promotes the young people’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.
• Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies.
• Supervise and/or undertake key working responsibilities, including primary responsibility for the more complex cases, especially where safeguarding issues are involved.
• Develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording risk.
• Make assessments of need and coordinate the formulation of plans to enable these needs to be met.
• Maximise educational opportunities and achievements for young people.
• Supervise and undertake direct work that is designed to meet the young person’s needs as identified within the care plan.
• Establish and maintain positive and productive networks with communities and other agencies to achieve optimal outcomes and to implement practices.
• Contribute to the assessment and appraisal of team members using discussion, direct observation.
• Promote a positive image of the Trust through professional presentation at meetings in clear, factual report writing.
• Take responsibility for the promotion of safeguarding and the welfare of children and young persons for who they are responsible for.

About You

• Registered Manager’s Award (Level 5 RMA Children) (combined management & care award) and well as prior completion of the QCF Level 3 / 4 CFYP or old NVQ Children’s Residential.
• Significant residential childcare experience.
• A sound understanding of Ofsted regulations and expectations.
• Ability to demonstrate effective leadership.
• Ability to achieve service delivery to national standards.
• Passion to develop further services for children/young people.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of working with statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Flexibility to respond to the needs of the young people.
• Good communication skills and interpersonal skills.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• A current clean driving licence.
• Has the right to work in the UK (we only accept applications from UK based candidates as we are not part of any visa sponsorship scheme).

Full Job Description is attached.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience. If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity.