Residential Home Manager

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children Residential Home Manager  to work full time based in a Children’s home in Barnet.

The salary for this permanent Children Residential Home Manager job is up to £75,070

Main Duties:

• Co-ordinating the care plan and therapeutic support for the young people living in the residential homes.
• Managing timely responses to referrals and appropriate matching to other young people who are residents in the units.
• Leading all safeguarding aspects in both homes and ensuring that all staff are aware of their responsibilities in safeguarding these young people.
• Keeping abreast of developments in all the cases covered by the team.
• Assessing the level of risk and/or service to be offered to users, ensuring that the highest priority work is allocated and that the safety and wellbeing of the child is secured.
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with relevant statutory and independent sector agencies.
• Chairing reviews and meetings attended by users, colleagues, and representatives of other agencies.
• Providing information, including written reports, to ensure effective service delivery and to influence strategy development.
• Managing and overseeing the budget of both children’s homes in excess of £1.5m.
• Ensuring that services are delivered in partnership with all key stakeholders to meet children’s assessed needs on a planned, holistic basis within a family setting whenever this is consistent with their best interests.

Requirements of this job:

• Level 5 Residential Childcare qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience working within Children’s residential care
• Ability to show leadership skills
• Experience of managing budgets
• Direct involvement in Ofsted inspections

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

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

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 in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well 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:

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.