Children’s Registered Home Manager

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year

About the role

We are now recruiting for a Registered Manager to join our team in Northampton.

Registered Manager – Responsibilities:

• To conduct the Home in a way that promotes and make provisions for the welfare of the young people referred by placing authorities and accommodated within the Home.

• To ensure that systems are developed and are in place to regularly monitor and adhere to the care standards

• To provide supervision and support for all members of staff, to ensure high standards of professional care and practice based on the individual needs of the Young People.

• Plan and implementing programmes of care and activities for individual young people by working together with other professional colleagues (schools, staff, social workers and other health and local authority staff) and to maintain close liaison with their colleagues in this respect.

• Ensure the allocation of staff duties are clearly and adequately defined.

• Organise staff training when required in-house and external.

• Maintaining reports and records in respect of individual young persons and their progress, and attending relevant meetings, care reviews, parents’ evenings etc. and make relevant referrals to other agencies should the need be.

• Ensure that all drugs and medicines are properly stored and controlled and administered as prescribed by each Young Person’s general practitioner.

• Maintain good order in the Home by ensuring all house equipment and furniture is kept in good condition and that any defective furniture/equipment is reported to your line manager.

• Enable Young People to develop and maintain relationships with staff through consultation.

• Report issues of any service needs, whatever the nature which, directly or indirectly affects the organisation.

• Ensure that all relevant documentation is completed and accurate.

• Participate in the recruitment, selection, interviewing and induction of new staff.

• Undertake training relevant to the role of Manager

• Ensure that all changes to policies and procedures are ratified by your Manager prior to publication.

• Exercise effective leadership of the Home operations and Care staff, such that the Home is organised, managed and staffed in a manner that delivers the best possible care.

• Ensure that the home staffing levels is adequate to meet the Statement of Purpose and the staffing is evaluated in practice to meet the needs of the children accommodated there.

• Ensure that all newly appointed staff (including any agency, Temporary, volunteer, and student staff) are taken through the induction training programme and have signed as having done so and to ensure that a current DBS is in place for each staff (schedule two checks are completed).

• Ensure that all staff are clear about accountability and reporting lines, and the procedures to be followed in relation to emergencies, health and safety, child protection and notification of incidents, including fire evacuation procedures and regulations.

• Ensure you update the Responsible Individual with regular reports and updates of the Home’s operation.

• Carry out duties in compliance with the company’s Equal Opportunities Policy

• Carry out duties in compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and subsequent Health and Safety legislation

• As a term of your employment you may be required to undertake such other duties as commensurate with your grade, and/or hours of work, as may reasonably be required of you.

• This is a description of the job as it is at present constituted. It is the practice of this company periodically to examine employees’ job descriptions and to update them to ensure that they relate to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are being proposed. It is the company’s aim to reach agreement on reasonable changes, but if agreement is not possible the company reserves the right to insist on changes to your job description after consultation with you.

Please note: There may be other Ad Hoc duties that you are required to help with on occasion.

What we need from you:

• Experience of managing a Children’s home (Either as the main Manager or a deputy who has undertaken the Managerial duties for an extended period of time).

• Level 3 qualification in Child Care.

• Hold a level 5 Registered Managers Diploma or willing to undertake Level 5 once employed.

If you feel you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role then apply today