Children’s Residential Registered Manager
£55,836-£61,604 per annum
North Somerset, Local Authority
Interviews taking place ASAP
We currently have a fantastic opportunity to embark on an exciting journey setting up 3 children’s residential homes for a local authority in North Somerset. The homes will provide short to medium term placements and will require you to register with Ofsted.
In this role, you will develop and lead a passionate team of children’s home care staff, to outstanding practice and lead culture change and deliver the objectives of a residential children’s home using a therapeutic approach.
About your role as Children’s Residential Registered Manager:
- Support the Residential Lead and lead a team of staff ensuring that children and young people are well cared for and are making progress
- Supporting with the Ofsted improvement agenda through leading/delegating responsibilities to support effective long-term change
- Compliance including extensive knowledge of the regulations
- Process management including staffing rota system, interim staff management during staff absence, staff supervisions, training and case file audits for children
- Supporting of recruitment and retention of staff – new service being established.
- Leadership/behavioural change to align with routines and patterns to benefit the young people in the unit
- Staff development including action plans, training sessions & materials, resource allocation, impact risk assessments for changes made
Your required experience as Children’s Residential Registered Manager
- You will be an established senior leader with recent experience in a children’s residential setting as a registered manager
- Proven success as a Children’s Residential Home Manager/Deputy Manager
- Experience supporting children and young people with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties and complex needs
- Understanding of the Children’s Home Regulations & Inspection Framework
- Experience of managing a team/supervising staff
- Experience of working with partners
- Minimum Level 3 Health & Social Care Children & Young People or equivalent. You will be required to complete the Level 5 in Leadership & management if not already achieved
- Experience of setting up a new children’s home
- Experience of managing more than one children’s home
- You will be required to be part of an on-call rota and depending on service need, you may be required to provide cover for our other homes
- 2 years of references
- Enhanced DBS
- Valid driving license and own transport, or be able to provide alternative, suitable method of travel is an essential
If you’re interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact me on 0117 3137110 or apply today.
(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)
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