Registered Manager- Residential Childcare. Job in Birmingham Education & Training Jobs

AOB Recruitment; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Registered Manager to oversee a children's home in Birmingham. The role focuses on ensuring high care standards, compliance with regulations, and effective team management. Applicants must possess a Level 5 management qualification and at least 2 years of relevant experience. Offering a competitive salary up to £71,500, this full-time permanent position emphasizes the importance of a nurturing environment for young people.

Benefits

Company pension

Flexitime

Bonus scheme

Performance bonus

Yearly bonus

Qualifications

• Sound working knowledge of statutory requirements in residential care.
• At least 2 years experience in a managerial role within a children’s residential setting.
• Ability to effectively manage budgets and resources.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Children's Home, ensuring high standards of care.
• Manage budget and resources to meet key performance indicators.
• Recruit, supervise, and develop high caliber colleagues.

Skills

People management

Organisational skills

Financial management

Education

Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care for Children and Young People

Job description

We have current vacancies in

• Handsworth
• Selly Park
• Erdington
• Smethwick
• Cotteridge

Job Purpose

To take overall responsibility for the management and leadership of the Children s Home as the Registered Manager in charge promoting high standards of care in line with our regulatory bodies.

The Registered Manager will ensure young people receive excellent levels of emotional and physical care within a home that offers a safe nurturing and comfortable environment with a staff team that is supportive and enabling providing opportunities and experiences to instil positive values and reaffirm the importance of children enjoying a childhood.

To lead and manage both employees and resources to ensure high standards of service are achieved within the home exceeding regulatory standards.

To manage the budget of the home and ensure the business remains viable and to meet and exceed the key performance indicators for people quality and performance.

Key focus on:

• Key focus on:
• Safety
• Providing a quality service to the young people
• Colleague engagement
• Safer recruitment
• Supporting the development and learning of colleagues in the team
• Ensuring that the service is financially sustainable including by safely supporting new referrals into the service and managing costs appropriately

Responsibilities

• Ensure that all colleagues within the home understand their role so that they are able to undertake their duties and responsibilities to a consistently high standard in the normal course of their duties.
• Comply with all statutory / legislative requirements.
• Comply with the Company s policies and procedures and all other relevant supplementary instructions.
• Liaise with and co-operate at all times with relevant Local Authority employees and other professionals meeting their requirements as appropriate.
• Prepare detailed reports for Statutory and Case Reviews to a consistently high standard.
• Meet legislative and Company Health and Safety standards.
• Implement quality assurance practices to monitor and evaluate standards of the individual and of the team performance to support the company to achieve its objective to continuously improve upon quality.
• Manage the designated budget ensuring value for money is achieved.
• Monitor and control expenditure of the homes spending.
• Take control of all of the home s spending.
• Monitor the young person s spending of their allowances.
• Authorise and monitor items purchased for the home.
• Investigate and report any financial irregularities appropriately.
• Maintain a positive working environment.
• Recruit high calibre colleagues that demonstrate our values and behaviours and delivery consistently high quality services.
• Drive a high engagement culture through vision and great leadership coaching development recognition and communication to retain our colleagues.
• Robust performance management including supervision and appraisals.
• Identify and pursue training and development needs to drive succession and talent management of our people.
• Manage people matters and challenging situations such as discipline grievance capability and absence.
• Ensure the workplace upholds effective systems that are understood implemented and monitored with consideration to Company policy and procedure including those relating to Health and Safety equality and diversity.
• Manage the colleague rota enabling deployment of appropriate colleague resources to ensure key tasks are fulfilled to include provision for back up as required in times of emergency/out of hours.
• Promote the Practice of working in partnership with our young people their families and other professional agencies involved in the care of the individual.
• Arrange admissions of young people to the home in line with Company policy and procedure.
• Ensure that the care and well-being of the young people is maintained at the highest level at all times.
• Encourage communication and interaction within the home in order to broaden life and stimulate interests.
• Ensure that all young people receive appropriate medical dental and other ancillary care in line with care plans.
• Encourage stimulate and participate in social activities for the benefit of the young people.
• Meet with Social Workers to develop review and act upon individual care plans.
• Liaison with young person s family as appropriate

Knowledge / Education / Skills

A sound working knowledge of the statutory requirements associated with the residential care of young people. This will include Children s Homes Regulations Health and Safety legislation etc.

A management qualification of at least or equivalent to Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social carefor Children and Young people. The role holder must have completed the full registration processand declared fit by OFSTED.

Proven people management skills within a residential setting including motivating directing delegating.

Proven organisational skills.

Proven financial management skills.

Experience

At least 2 years experience in a managerial role within a children s residential setting.

Responsibility

Leadership

No direct line management responsibility however indirect leadership to provide influence in area of speciality.

Budgets & Equipment

Collective responsibility for the care and security of equipment and adhering to the cost and budget guidelines.

Information

Shared responsibility for the confidentiality security and accuracy of records data and information. Ensuring good quality documentation which meets the Organisational requirements Regulatory guidelines and statutory requirements.

Communication & Interaction

Communications will regularly require some judgement involving the seeking and gathering of information with the need for some explanation. May have interactions which contain distressing information

Safeguarding

All colleagues have a responsibility to protect and safeguard vulnerable individuals at risk (whether children or adults). Colleagues must be aware of local child and adult protection procedures and who to contact within the Local Authority Safeguarding team for further advice. All colleagues are required to attend safeguarding awareness training and to undertake additional training appropriate to their role.

Working Environment

The educational and social challenges experienced by the young people may at times give rise to unusual or anti-social behaviour which can be very emotionally and physically demanding. The role holder will be expected to undergo certified training and refresher courses in a range of areas including Child Protection Physical Intervention Behavioural Management first aid fire prevention and Health & Safety at Work and other specialist training related to the location

Job Types: Full-time Permanent

Pay: Up to 71500.00 per year

Additional pay:

• Bonus scheme
• Performance bonus
• Yearly bonus

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Flexitime

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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1