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To lead and manage a 5 bed SEBD children's home in Preston to provide an emotionally secure, consistent, warm, supportive and caring environment for the young people and to encourage their social, physical, emotional intellectual and moral development so that they may realise their own potential.

As the Registered Manager of the home you will be responsible for;

The general leadership and management of a team of staff and young people;

• All aspects of the day to day management of the house and its programmes and activities, ensuring that it operates in a smooth, effective and efficient manner.
• Delegating and rotating daily tasks and responsibility to members of his/her care staff team in a fair and consistent manner.
• Modelling high standards in your dress code, professional courtesy and manner, communication, report writing, dealing with issues and conflict resolution.
• Preparing the agenda for meetings and for chairing and taking minutes.
• Training new staff in care staff procedures and routines.

Young People:

• Ensuring that the children’s guide to the home is in a form or forms appropriate to the age of and understanding of the children in the home.
• Identifying and assessing each young person’s problems and needs.
• Assigning a Key Worker to each young person.
• Oversight of the writing and content of all aspects of the young person’s Placement Plan.
• Making arrangements for monitoring the implementation of the plan, monthly contact summaries and for contributing to reviews.
• Attending internal and external review meetings.
• Developing and maintaining positive and appropriate relationships with each young person to ensure that his/her needs are met.
• Ensuring written copies of reviews are made available to each young person and that they are assisted in understanding the contents and any implications for them.
• Ensuring that social and recreational activities for each young person are assessed for risk and are well planned, organised and adequately supervised. Ensuring that members of staff are involved in the activities.

Staffing:

• Assisting the Operations Manager and Service Director in the appointment of staff.
• Ensuring that recruitment processes are compliant with Safer Recruitment.
• Ensuring the provision for training for all members of staff.
• Giving a high priority to your ‘duty of care’ towards all members of your care staff team and for ensuring that all they are adequately supported.

Communication:

• Ensuring that there is good communication between all members of the care staff team, both in daily face to face contact with each other as well as through handover and other meetings.
• Ensuring that all members of staff are fully aware of policies, procedures and routines concerning the communication of personal and sensitive information.

Monitoring and Quality Assurance. Ensuring that all members of staff:

• Provide a high standard of care for each young person, with particular regard for general health and personal hygiene.
• Create and promote opportunities for each young person to have regular contact with and visits from parents, guardians, relatives and friends.
• Maintain and sustain high standards of hygiene and cleanliness within the house.
• Are aware of the extent of their role and responsibility and fulfil their duties to a high standard.
• Play their part in maintaining the fixtures, fittings, furniture and fabric of the house to a high standard.

Performance Management:

• Conducting supervision sessions with all members of the care staff team as per policy.
• Ensuring staff are appraised at least annually.
• To participate in his/her own (Registered Manager) supervision session.
• Ensure that the performance of the staff team is effectively monitored and managed, and there are records on file to support this.
• Ensure that matters of performance and conduct issues are promptly and effectively shared with Human Resources; and action taken around such matters are managed in line with their advice and guidance.

Administration:

• Attending management meetings as and when required.
• Completing data collection reports.
• Ensuring that Children and Young Peoples case files are kept up to date and compliant in line with statutory and regulatory requirements.
• The control and distribution of house finances. Keeping accurate and up to date financial records. Preparing financial reports for the Operations Manager and Financial Accountant.
• Ensuring that the results from all reviews are recorded on a child’s file by a named member of staff. Furthermore, that all professional records, including staff files, are kept in good order, filed securely and are up to date.
• Completing the staff rota and in ensuring that there is sufficient cover in place for the needs of the home.
• Recording and monitoring holiday requests to ensure that all shifts can be covered and are adequately staffed by competent workers.
• Ensure storage and practice around administration is managed in compliance with GDPR.

Policy Procedures and routines:

• Ensuring that the homes policies, procedures and any written guidance to staff are clear and accurately reflect the Statement of Purpose.
• Ensuring that all members of staff comply with the requirements of the Company and related legislation concerning children, including ensuring the maintenance of fire precautions, fire drills, fire registers, Health and Safety precautions and risk assessments.

Community Relations:

• Establishing and maintaining good relations with neighbours and the local community, with particular concern for the needs and protection of the young people in the house.
• Establishing links with the local Child Protection Agency and Policy.

On Call:

• Sharing On-Call duties on a monthly rota.

Working on-line:

• Sharing sleep-in and working on-line duties on a monthly rota.

Salary - up to £45,000k DOE with a £3,000 sign on bonus (paid on completion of probation).

Based on a 40 hour working week

Once you've joined this company you will feel the support & team work that have given all their other employees a positive path to success. A successful applicant will be able to demonstrate a previous track record of positive outcomes for the young people you’ve previously worked with, in addition to demonstrating a continued constructive level of support to colleagues and others around you to help get the best out of the team at all times. Being able to work from initiative is important to showing strong leadership in a Senior role. This is a very stable home with a great management structure in place where the team work together to get the best out of the young people in their care.

This company are open to seeking profiles of a Deputy Manager looking to step up, where they’ll happily enrol any successful applicants on a Level 5 – and experienced Registered Managers seeking a new environment to join this great team.

• Clear progression plans
• Regular updates with in-house Training and discussions about personal development
• Level 3 Residential Child Care required (Or equivalent)
• Level 5 Leadership and Management (Ideal but not essential)
• Full UK Driving Licence (required)

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Up to £48,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Signing bonus

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RR- RM-PRE