Residential Childrens Home Manager

If you are an ambitious Residential Childrens Home Manager seeking a fulfilling new role, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career within a rapidly growing organisation.

Company Overview:

An organisation committed to revolutionising children's homes, operating as a supportive family in a thriving community where children form lasting friendships, explore their interests and develop essential life skills. This inclusive environment promotes social connections and personal growth, with personalised care that recognises each child's individual strengths, challenges and aspirations. Collaborating closely with parents, guardians, and professionals, this approach ensures compassionate and specialized care, nurturing children to thrive and realise their fullest potential.

What will the role involve?

As the Residential Childrens Home Manager, you will lead and oversee the management of a residential home in Maghull. Your role will encompass strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, personnel management, resource oversight, and continuous service improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Have responsibility for the management of services, including staff management and supervision, care and placement planning, safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring quality and compliance
• Ensure full implementation of statutory and organisational policies and procedures and provide feedback on the effectiveness of all policies and procedures
• Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Childrens Homes Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Childrens Act 1989, Data Protection Act 1998, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
• To be responsible for developing constructive working relationships within the wider community to promote the overall outcomes for looked after children
• Ensure that staff have the skills, experience and qualifications required to meet the needs of each child or young person placed in the home and provide continuity of care
• To lead and manage the home in a way that is aspirational, inspiring both children and young people and the staff who work there
• Produce monitoring reports, statistical data and evaluation as required and in keeping with organisational policies and procedures and within agreed deadline
• To ensure that the principles of equality and diversity are embedded in the culture of the home
• To ensure that each child or young person has individual care and care planning which is tailored to their specific needs and requirements as laid out in their relevant plans
• To maintain professional relationships with the team around the child, multi-agency partnerships and where appropriate parents, families and other stakeholders

Specific Responsibilities:

• Service Delivery
• People Management
• Resource Management
• Business Development
• Quality and Service Development

Essential Experience, Skills & Qualifications required for this role:

• A minimum of Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young Peoples Services or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare or equivalent
• Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
• 3 years experience working with children in the last 5 years and at least 1 year at senior level
• Supervision or management experience
• Working with children, young people and their families
• Work in a residential setting
• Inter-agency work
• Childrens Home Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Single Social Care Inspection Framework (SSCIF), Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2014, Care Standards Act 2000, Children Act 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015, Health and Safety at work and associated guidance and regulation
• Policies and procedures pertaining to running a residential childrens home
• Child protection, safeguarding children, impact of abuse and neglect, education and health needs of looked after children, equality and diversity and childrens rights
• Care and placement planning, risk and review processes
• Understanding of the education, health, social, emotional and psychological needs of looked after children and young people and how to ensure these needs are met
• Ability to lead and inspire a staff team, take responsibility for staff team training and development, supervision, rosters ensuring continuity of care for each child or young person
• Able to manage stress and difficult dynamics and demonstrate emotional resilience
• Capable of performing a wide variety of administrative tasks consistent with the day-to-day management of a childrens home
• Prioritise and organise workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality, evaluating the quality of own and others work and raises any quality issues and related risks to the relevant person
• To be fit to manage a childrens home as outlined in the requirements for registration as a manger
• Ability to sustain and work through placement issues to prevent placement breakdowns
• Ability to monitor the service for quality of care and in line with the requirements of Ofsted inspection
• Ability to develop constructive working relationships with the wider community and multi-agency teams
• Promote equality and value diversity by interpreting equality, diversity and rights in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant standards
• Identify patterns of discrimination and take actions to overcome this and enable others to promote quality and diversity and a non-discriminatory culture that supports people in exercising their rights