About the job Registered Manager - Children's Residential Home (Manchester)
Registered Manager - Children's Residential Home
Full-time | 40 hours per week
Location: Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 2BW
£ 44,000 to 49,000 per year
Minimum of 28 days leave each year (including bank holidays)
Private Healthcare (with Vitality)
Pension scheme
Full clinical supervision both individually and as a team
Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave
About Regain Recruitment
Regain Recruitment is a Health & Social Care Recruitment Consultancy offering effective staffing solutions to residential and nursing home care providers throughout the UK.
Our customised recruitment services cater to the unique needs of the healthcare industry, providing top-notch bespoke service to both candidates and clients. With a focus on integrity and unrivalled expertise, we ensure successful placements that drive quality care and support.
We provide access to a diverse employer mix for more opportunities, and free advice on career building and resume development. Additionally, we offer first-class resume consultation and interview preparation, empowering candidates to make confident strides in their healthcare careers.
About the Client
With our client, children are the central focus. Their directorial team boasts over 60 years of experience in assisting vulnerable youth and has diverse backgrounds collaborating with social care providers and teams.
Their homes epitomize their core values, emphasizing that children in care deserve every opportunity for success. This means providing them with top-notch facilities, dedicated staff, engaging activities, and quality education.
About the Role
Our client is seeking an experienced Registered Manager dedicated to delivering top-quality care. In this position, you will lead and manage the residential children's service, ensuring compliance with Children's Homes Regulations. Your responsibilities will include overseeing staff, organizing schedules, facilitating training, and accessing essential services to enhance childcare practices within the home.
Role Objectives:
To undertake a Registered Manager role for our client's Childrens Homes.
To be responsible for the organisation, management and supervision of residential services for children.
To be responsible for the team-based development of a high quality looked after children practise by ensuring that work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed and that key performance indicators are met.
To contribute to overall strategic planning and management of the service and to the development of high quality services
To lead the team ensuring that the functions of the service are carried out effectively and in accordance with the legislation, regulations, guidance standards and local procedures and priorities.
To continually improve services in light of the service user views, performance data and stakeholder feedback
Responsibilities:
Management of People
To manage the team in line with Service policy, procedures and guidelines.
To implement the client's Supervision Policy particularly as it relates to residential staff
Address issues concerning staff welfare in accordance with the policies for staff care.
Comply with the Health and Safety Regulations.
Ensure effective induction of new staff joining the residential team as per policy and residential home guidance.
Ensure that the training and developmental needs of staff within the team are evaluated and actioned in accordance with the needs of the young people.
Ensure that staffing practices of the team are in accordance with the policy e.g. In relation to casual/temporary employment.
Management of Finance and Resources
Management of all budgets held by the residential home under span of control.
Responsibility for budget monitoring and for the control of income and expenditure within approved levels.
Manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and and review functions are implemented where required and monitored and reviewed according to local procedures and priorities.
Maintain effective workload monitoring within the Residential Home.
Contribute to the development of unit costs for the Residential Homes activity
Participate in out of hours management cover as appropriate to the Residential Home.
Management/Operation of the team according to best value principles.
Management of Quality and Performance
Responsibility for ensuring that work is undertaken to meet agreed standards whilst always striving for excellent practice.
Drive up quality of practice particularly in relation to risk assessments, record keeping and meeting of statutory timescales.
Establish, sustain and develop a quality audit system within the Residential Service to ensure that the Team delivers services to the required standards and specifications.
Contribute to the management of quality in the Residential Service.
Manage the performance of the Residential Home, setting individual and team targets.
Supervise Staff in accordance with the Supervision policy including the regular audit of practice and feedback to staff.
Share learning about good practice and contribute to training and development activities to progress continuous professional development for all residential staff.
Data analysis
Develop appropriate systems in conjunction with the directors for the collection of performance data and data analysis.
Provision of reports using required formats for presentation and analysis of data.
Continuous Improvement
Contribute to the devising, implementing and evaluation of changes with the involvement of front line staff to continually improve services, systems and standards, in conjunction with the Directorial Team.
Qualifications
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Health and SocialCare & Children and Young People Services or equivalent
Has experience working in partnership with key stakeholders including families, Social Workers, Ofsted, and other professionals
Has a minimum of 2 years childcare residential experience within the last 5 years
Has significant management experience within a Registered Manager role with proven outcomes in an Ofsted "good/outstanding" home
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