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Job Title: Regional Operations Manager - Children's Homes (Northampton North Cluster)

Location: Mobile around Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire

Salary: £58,344 - £68,952 per annum following successful completion of probation period

Contract: Full Time, Permanent - 40 hours per week

Homes2Inspire provide homes and services that are nurturing, warm and welcoming. Our caring staff teams are committed to providing safe, well-planned care to children and young people who have often faced real challenges in their early years. As one of the country’s top Children’s Home providers, we strive for excellence in the care we provide, ensuring our children and young people are ready for the next stages of life. Homes2Inspire Ltd are proud to be a part of Shaw Trust Group, a charity helping to transform the lives of young people and adults across the UK!

The Right Candidate

Homes2Inspire has an exciting opportunity for the right individual to manage a cluster of 8 children’s homes in our Northampton North cluster, which consists of 7 services in Northamptonshire and 1 home in Bedford, Bedfordshire.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent strategic, commercial, budgetary and quality assurance experience to support the growth of the business and achieve excellent outcomes for young people in our care with ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Ofsted outcomes.

What you'll bring:

• Can demonstrate a full working knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations/Quality Standards - Essential
• Able to meet the requirements for registration as a Responsible Individual - Essential
• Willingness to travel around the Midlands area - Essential
• Experience leading a Residential Children's home to Ofsted 'Outstanding' - Essential
• QCF Level 5 Leadership and Management in Residential Childcare (Or equivalent) - Essential
• Experience as an Operations Manager - Desirable

The roles and responsibilities for the successful candidate include:

• Coach, support and motivate the cluster’s Registered Home Managers team to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery.
• Develop and deliver strategic plans to develop the Children’s Homes business within your cluster area in line with strategic plans for the broader business.
• Monitor quality and manage performance of operational delivery in the Children’s Homes, ensuring that KPI, legislative and Children’s Homes regulations requirements are met.
• Visit the homes within the cluster on a regular basis to establish a meaningful relationship and extensive knowledge of each child placed.
• Maintain registration as Responsible Individual for your allocated cluster of Children’s Homes in line with legislative and Regulations requirements
• Develop and maintain customer and account management relationships with stakeholders
• Manage the financial control of your cluster of Homes and matters relating to budgetary expenditure and income enabling the preparation of efficient management of forecasts and budgetary parameters.
• Develop and produce operationally viable and cost-effective solutions to business development opportunities, delivering within bid timescales and in line with legislation and customer specifications.
• Take a lead role in mobilising new and acquired Children’s Homes within your cluster area to time and budget
• Emergency On call responsibility in line with a planned rota system

What We Can Offer You!

• Ongoing Continued Professional Training

• Essential Car user allowance

• Travel and Subsistence expenses

• Non-contractual bonus scheme - up to an additional £10,000 per year!

• Employer Pension Contribution

• Private Health Care Scheme (Family)

• ICT equipment including mobile phone

• Further benefits to be discussed on application

If you are successful, you can be sure that you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.

You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years.

All successful candidates will be subject to a vetting process in line with safer recruitment requirements. This includes right to work checks, Enhanced DBS Check for Children and Adults workforce (H2I will cover the cost of this check) and satisfactory reference checks in line with safer recruitment requirements.