Registered Manager

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Registered Manager to work full-time in a children's residential setting. The salary for this permanent position is £44,174 - £48,252 per annum.

• Registered Manager
• Northamptonshire
• £44,174 - £48,252

Job Purpose:

 To manage Arnold House Children’s Home which provides long-term residential care for children who have a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder and associated learning disabilities.

As the Registered Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that the day-to-day management of the home remains compliant with Ofsted regulations and in line with the ethos of the home. You will act on behalf of Northamptonshire Children’s Trust to ensure that the staff team provides a high standard of consistent care and service in accordance with legislation, central government guidance, regulations and standards, and the policies and procedures.

You will be committed to and focussed on improving the outcomes for the children and young people living in the home and on developing their life opportunities and chances.

Main Duties:

• The Team Manager is required to lead, manage and direct the day-to-day operation of the home. Each home is made up of a staff team of around 21 staff, plus a bank of sessional workers, comprising of Assistant Team Managers, Senior Residential Care Workers, Residential Care Workers and support staff. The Team Manager is legally responsible for ensuring that the home complies with National Minimum Standards, The Care Standards Act 2000 (Registration)(England) Regulations 2010, The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and in accordance with the Care Standards Act 2000. All duties must be carried out in accordance with prescribed standards, procedures and protocols, taking case related decisions in accordance with the scheme of delegated authority for Children’s Social Care Services and within the relevant Legislation governing Regulated Services to ensure the Safeguarding of Children within the home.
• To develop and write the Team Plan which ensures that the home contributes to meeting the objectives and performance targets set within the NCT ResidentialService Action Plan and the wider plan for NCT; to ensure that an efficient and effective service is provided, and to continually develop and improve the service for the young people, performance managing the team to achieve the relevant objectives and targets.
• To recruit, supervise and appraise staff in line with the Trust requirements and in accordance with the statutory requirements for Children’s Homes and to ensure that the staff have the relevant qualifications, skills knowledge and training to provide an effective and efficient service.
• To develop and maintain partnership and multi-agency working, in order to ensure that services and agencies work together effectively to assess risk and respond to identified need to safeguard children and to promote effective information sharing with partner agencies. This will include pro-actively developing relationships with schools to champion the needs of Children in Care in order to ensure pro-active work to support improved outcomes for the education of the children and young people in our care and developing links with Health services to ensure effective screening of young people’s mental and physical health.
• To manage a budget, to ensure efficient and effective use of resources, to monitor expenditure monthly, capturing patterns in expenditure to inform budget planning and setting within the Directorate.
• To secure service improvements through effective audit, quality assurance, management of data systems, performance management of staff and timely management of complaints in accordance with the Trust’s statement of required practice and external regulation and inspection.
• To develop and sustain a performance culture which delivers results taking into account national and local requirements and is flexible to meet the changing requirements of the inspection framework and legislation. To design and review performance targets to agreed standards and indicators so that the service continually improves and is at all times ready for its inspections by Ofsted.
• To manage effectively the maintenance and health and safety of the home, ensuring that contractors comply with all health and safety legislation and maintain safe systems of work whilst on site. To effectively audit and monitor fire safety and emergency plans and carry out a full quarterly audit of health and safety systems to ensure that the home complies with all aspects of health and safety legislation and good practice.
• The Team Manager must ensure that there is management support available for the staff team at all times and is therefore on call 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. This responsibility is shared between the Team Manager and the Assistant Team Manager.
• To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs. To ensure that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself, others and to comply with the policies and procedures relating to health and safety with the Trust.

Qualifications and Knowledge:

• QCF Level 5 Management Qualification (as of April 2014). Registered Manager with Ofsted (Interview process separate to and over-rides NCT interview process)
• Knowledge of Child Care Legislation including Statutory Child Care
• Knowledge of current research relating to Children Social Care generally and specifically to the relevant service area
• Ability to manage staff demonstrated through previous management experience, mentoring and coaching
• Ability to manage the performance of individuals and the team and to nurture a positive and learning working environment and culture
• Ability to manage budgets demonstrated through a sound understanding of the principles of budget management
• Ability to communicate with children and young people individually and in groups including non-verbal young people

Experience:

• Extensive post-qualifying experience in the Residential Care sector including knowledge and experience of working with young people with a diagnosis of ASD and learning disabilities.
• Previous experience of multi-agency working
• Ability to demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behaviour, physical, social and welfare needs
• Demonstrate an understanding of the safe working practices that apply to this role

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself disabled or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Contact:

This job is advertised by Maisy Price; 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, we are regretfully 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 reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as 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).