Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Children’s Residential Registered Manager to work full-time for Barclay Care Group, based in Hayes, London.
The salary for this permanent Children’s Residential Registered Manager job is up to £65,000 per annum.
Main duties:
- Take fully responsibility for the day-to-day running of the home, including rota planning, staffing, admissions and discharges.
- Lead the OFSTED registration/variation process where required and ensure ongoing compliance with Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards.
- Develop and maintain the statement of purpose, children’s guide and all key policies and procedures.
- Lead on safeguarding and risk management, ensuring robust systems, timely reporting and a culture of safety.
- Oversee individual care plans, placement plans, risk assessments and behaviour support plans, ensuring they are personalised, regularly reviewed and outcome-focused.
- Recruit, induct, supervise and appraise staff, address performance issues and embed a strong learning culture.
- Implement a recognised therapeutic/trauma-informed model of care and ensure staff are trained and supported to use it consistently.
- Maintain effective relationships with local authorities, schools, health and therapy services, commissioners and families.
- Lead regular audits, monitoring and improvement plans to maintain/achieve outstanding OFSTED outcomes.
- Manage budgets, petty cash and resources responsibly, ensuring value for money while maintaining a high standard of environment and care.
- Act as a senior on shift, planning and running shifts, allocating shifts, allocating tasks and ensuring effective handovers.
- Lead and support staff to follow care plans, risk assessments, EHCPs and behaviour support plans.
- Provide advice, guidance and de-escalation support during incidents, ensuring accurate recording and follow-up.
- Monitor safeguarding and risk, ensuring concerns are responded to and escalated appropriately.
- Contribute to and, sometimes, chair team meetings, key-work reviews, and professional meetings.
Requirements of this Children’s Residential Registered Manager role:
- Significant experience in a children’s residential home supporting young people with EBD and/or LD/SEND
- At least 2 years in a Registered Manager or equivalent senior leadership role in an Ofsted registered children’s home, or at least 3 years at Deputy/Deputy-plus level in this setting
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare.
- Full UK driving licence & ability to participate in an out-of-hours/on-call rota.
Contact:
Alex Moon advertises this Children’s Residential Registered Manager role; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regretfully 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.
