Registered Manager - Fostering Service - Ramsgate - Sanctuary Personal

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd; Ramsgate; On-site; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a full-time Registered Manager for its Fostering Service in Ramsgate. This role involves ensuring compliance with regulations, leading recruitment and training for foster carers, and monitoring care quality. Candidates must have a professional Social Work qualification and a strong understanding of relevant legislation. The salary for this position is up to £60,000 per annum.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to ensure compliance with legal requirements and standards.
• Experience in recruiting and training staff.
• Ability to develop and implement a fostering recruitment strategy.

Responsibilities

• Ensure services comply with Fostering Services regulations.
• Lead recruitment and training of foster carers.
• Monitor outcomes for children and quality of care.

Skills

Understanding of relevant legislation

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Education

Professional Social Work qualification or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Registered Manager within the Fostering Service to work full time for Ethelbert Children Services based in Ramsgate.

The salary for this permanent Registered Manager job is up to £60,000 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Ensure services are delivered in line with The Fostering Services, National Minimum Standards 2011 and legal requirements of the Fostering Services Regulations 2011 and The Children Act 1989 & 2004.
• Ensure that all staff comply with the Fostering Agency’s Statement of Purpose, team expectations, policies and procedures.
• All staff are expected to comply with Equal Opportunities policy and procedures.
• To be responsible for the Agency making safe and robust decision making, prompt and appropriate response to safeguarding, referrals, assessments and allocation of work in accordance with statutory requirements.
• To take strategic and operational leadership in recruiting, training and supervising foster carers in line with regulations, good practice guidance to provide the best standards of care for looked after children and young people.
• To develop a fostering recruitment strategy and delivery plan to meet the needs of children, ensuring all children, where appropriate, are offered high quality foster placements.
• To develop communication and support mechanisms that develop high quality working relationships with foster carers and ensuring that foster carers views and feedback inform service development.
• Promote the work of the agency with local authorities chairing meetings as necessary.
• To be responsible for actively and regularly monitoring outcomes for children and the quality of the care provided. Identify strengths and areas for improvement and implement clear development plans that improve the experiences of children.
• Ensure team meetings are held regularly, stimulate ideas and allow good practice to thrive.
• Ensure foster carers receive effective training, support and supervision allowing them to provide high quality and stable care for children.
• Ensure the wellbeing of staff, carers and children by actively promoting and complying with health and safety regulations, policies and procedures.
• To be available from time to time, for work outside normal office hours as required, to meet the needs of the Department, role responsibilities.

Requirements

• A professional Social Work qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact

Contact: This Registered Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

About Sanctuary

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments

Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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