Children's Registered Manager

Location Blackpool
Job type Permanent
Salary £37k - 40k per year
Reference 187468

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

The salary for this permanent Registered Manager job is up to £40,000

Main Duties:

  • To be the Registered Manager of the home and work with OFSTED to support this
  • Manage a children’s home ensuring an excellent standard of care and in accordance with relevant legislation, procedures, policies and ‘Statement of Purpose’ for the home
  • Produce, lead on and progress development plans for their individual children’s home and the service that ensures the delivery of high quality practice and report on performance to statutory bodies and senior management
  • Co-ordinate and monitor quality of care, casework and administrative functions of the home and evaluate standards of performance against targets
  • Lead, assist and supervise in the continual assessment of children’s needs and to identify and prepare specific development plans, working with partners where appropriate, to ensure the most appropriate service provision
  • Leading on all aspects of recruitment and people management to support staff to achieve the highest standards of care
  • Deliver comprehensive staff training & development programme to enable staff to provide the necessary skills and expertise to meet the needs of children and perform their role
  • Support the development of supportive and therapeutic relationships between staff, children and other stakeholders
  • Liaise with various internal/external multi-disciplinary teams and commissioning authorities to ensure the care needs of our cared for children are met effectively and in a timely manner
  • To ensure the efficient, safe management of the home, including budget management, health and safety regulations, statutory regulations, adequate staffing levels and be part of an on-call system

Requirements of this job:

  • Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services or equivalent (e.g. social work qualification)
  • Significant, senior level experience of managing a Children’s Home including full range of people management and change management.
  • 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.