Interim Children’s Home Registered Manager - Residential Service
Job Ref: Bradford 5255290
Pay Rate: £450.00 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Bradford, Yorkshire
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The post holder will manage a Children’s Home staff team and provide clear and effective leadership to model best practice and lead on interventions to train and develop others as required. You will be part of an aspirational culture and approach to improve and develop the Children’s Residential Service to achieve its vision of providing high quality care and support to children, young people and their families as stated in the Children’s Homes Statement of Purpose. They will proactively provide support and supervision to a Children’s Home Staff team that is dedicated to working with young people and their families in ways that will achieve the best possible outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
To take leadership and management responsibility for the development and shaping of dynamic and creative plans for children and young people living in the home, with a complex range of needs due to, but not exclusively, early trauma and attachment.
Manage the home in order to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people, taking the role as designated safeguarding lead for the home.
Ensure the home operates within the Quality Standards and Children’s Homes Regulations (2015).
Lead the Regulation 44 monitoring visits and regulatory inspections from Ofsted.
Ensure that timely, focused action plans are developed and implemented to meet any requirements or recommendations following Regulation 44 monitoring visits or Ofsted inspections.
Ensure that the home has a staff development and training programme that enables staff to be skilled and knowledgeable.
Provide formal and informal supervision to staff and undertake appraisals.
Take responsibility for the development of staff and participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.
Monitor and ensure that all mandatory training is undertaken and kept up-to-date.
Lead and manage the staff team in supporting the day-to-day physical and emotional needs of the children and young people.
Ensure children and young people are supported to attend school, enjoy leisure activities, stay healthy and kept safe.
Debrief staff and teams following incidents and ensure good quality support is available.
Be physically fit enough to carry out all requirements of the post including the use of physical interventions as part of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI).
Ensure that all members of staff in the Home are trained in TCI.
Ensure that all staff in the home perform to the highest professional standards.
Ensure that the physical buildings, fixtures, and fittings are maintained to a high standard.
Ensure the team undertake tasks such as shopping, cleaning, and cooking.
Qualifications:
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services with Children and Young People’s Residential Management Pathway.
Equivalent Qualifications as set out in ANNEX A –Qualifications for staff working in children’s homes.
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare.
NVQ Level 4 Leadership and Management for Care Services.
Must have been a Registered Manager (with Ofsted) for at least 2 Years.
Skills & Experience:
At least 2 years in a position relevant to the residential care of children.
At least 1 year in a role requiring the supervision and management of staff working in a care role.
Experience of care planning and quality assurance commensurate with the Registered Manager role.
Must have worked for at least 6 months in the last year as an RM in a Children’s Home for Children with Disabilities.
Substantial experience of direct work with children and young people and their families.
Experience of quality assurance processes and systems.
Ability to adopt a process of continual improvement and suggest ways of working more efficiently.
Knowledge of key reports influencing the development of residential care.
Must have a detailed knowledge and understanding of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
Knowledge of current evidence-based research about the needs of children and young people.
Must have prior experience of working within a Children’s Home, as a manager or assistant manager.
Must have a good knowledge and understanding of respite and short break services.
Must have experience of leading a home through an Ofsted inspection.
This candidate must have a proven track record of the insight and understanding of a short break provision.
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Job Ref: Bradford 5255290
Pay Rate: £450.00 per day PAYE
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: Bradford, Yorkshire
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The post holder will manage a Children’s Home staff team and provide clear and effective leadership to model best practice and lead on interventions to train and develop others as required. You will be part of an aspirational culture and approach to improve and develop the Children’s Residential Service to achieve its vision of providing high quality care and support to children, young people and their families as stated in the Children’s Homes Statement of Purpose. They will proactively provide support and supervision to a Children’s Home Staff team that is dedicated to working with young people and their families in ways that will achieve the best possible outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
To take leadership and management responsibility for the development and shaping of dynamic and creative plans for children and young people living in the home, with a complex range of needs due to, but not exclusively, early trauma and attachment.
Manage the home in order to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people, taking the role as designated safeguarding lead for the home.
Ensure the home operates within the Quality Standards and Children’s Homes Regulations (2015).
Lead the Regulation 44 monitoring visits and regulatory inspections from Ofsted.
Ensure that timely, focused action plans are developed and implemented to meet any requirements or recommendations following Regulation 44 monitoring visits or Ofsted inspections.
Ensure that the home has a staff development and training programme that enables staff to be skilled and knowledgeable.
Provide formal and informal supervision to staff and undertake appraisals.
Take responsibility for the development of staff and participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.
Monitor and ensure that all mandatory training is undertaken and kept up-to-date.
Lead and manage the staff team in supporting the day-to-day physical and emotional needs of the children and young people.
Ensure children and young people are supported to attend school, enjoy leisure activities, stay healthy and kept safe.
Debrief staff and teams following incidents and ensure good quality support is available.
Be physically fit enough to carry out all requirements of the post including the use of physical interventions as part of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI).
Ensure that all members of staff in the Home are trained in TCI.
Ensure that all staff in the home perform to the highest professional standards.
Ensure that the physical buildings, fixtures, and fittings are maintained to a high standard.
Ensure the team undertake tasks such as shopping, cleaning, and cooking.
Qualifications:
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services with Children and Young People’s Residential Management Pathway.
Equivalent Qualifications as set out in ANNEX A –Qualifications for staff working in children’s homes.
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare.
NVQ Level 4 Leadership and Management for Care Services.
Must have been a Registered Manager (with Ofsted) for at least 2 Years.
Skills & Experience:
At least 2 years in a position relevant to the residential care of children.
At least 1 year in a role requiring the supervision and management of staff working in a care role.
Experience of care planning and quality assurance commensurate with the Registered Manager role.
Must have worked for at least 6 months in the last year as an RM in a Children’s Home for Children with Disabilities.
Substantial experience of direct work with children and young people and their families.
Experience of quality assurance processes and systems.
Ability to adopt a process of continual improvement and suggest ways of working more efficiently.
Knowledge of key reports influencing the development of residential care.
Must have a detailed knowledge and understanding of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
Knowledge of current evidence-based research about the needs of children and young people.
Must have prior experience of working within a Children’s Home, as a manager or assistant manager.
Must have a good knowledge and understanding of respite and short break services.
Must have experience of leading a home through an Ofsted inspection.
This candidate must have a proven track record of the insight and understanding of a short break provision.
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