Job Description:

Our client operates a 5 bedroom community based home, registered with Ofsted to provide support & care for up to 3 young people between the ages of 9-18 years of age.

We are looking for a dynamic individual who can  lead and manage the children’s home consistent with the approach and ethos of the organisation, delivering outcomes and high-quality care as set out in the home’s statement of purpose.

Service Delivery:

• Ensure that the homes ethos is embedded in the service and that service users are fully involved in the day-to-day running of the service.
• Ensure that the service meets the needs of service users from a diverse range of backgrounds in line with legislation, policy and best practice standards.
• Take responsibility for the management of safeguarding children and young people, risk and service governance.
• Ensure that children and young people have access to services which meet their health, education, social, psychological and emotional needs and well-being.
• Ensure that the service and its programmes are planned and delivered to meet the needs of all children and young people.
• Monitor appropriate outcomes and progress for children and young people.
• Ensure that a social inclusion focus is embedded within services.
• Take part in on-call arrangements if required.

Skills and Abilties:

• 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 children’s 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 children’s home as outlined in the requirements for registration as a manger.
• Ability to sustain and work through placement issues to prevent placement breakdowns.

People Management:

• Responsible for the regular supervision of the staff team and others as required. 
• Ensuring that all staff have access to practice based consultation within their own area of service delivery as well as management supervision, reviewing and monitoring standards, caseloads and practice development.
• Responsible for recruitment of staff in line with organisational policy and procedure.
• Coach and support development of the staff team in line with their statutory training requirements and continuous professional development (CPD).
• Responsible for staffing structures and rotas in addition to planning and prioritising key areas of work.
• Responsible for providing short basic instruction/training sessions/briefings to the staff team in areas of best practice.
• Ensure staff are properly inducted and briefed on how to work with children and young people’s care planning systems and any programmes for care.
• Responsible for ensuring effective team building within and promoting a constructive spirit of co-operation within staff teams
• Pro-actively manage sickness absence in line with organisational policy and procedure.

Qualifications and Experience:

Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services; or equivalent; or a preparedness to work towards the same

3 years experience working with children in the last 5 years, and at least 2 years at a Senior level essential