Registered Manager – Children’s Services

Salary: £42,000 – £49,200 per year

Avocet Staffing are currently looking to recruit an experienced Registered Manager to work with our client at their Children’s Home in Harlow.

The post holder will be responsible for managing all aspects of running the Home, for medium to long term planned placements to ensure young people are supported and prepared to move on to independent living.

To ensure that high levels of emotional and physical care, appropriate activities, comfortable accommodation and the service of keyworkers are planned, provided and applied in accordance with home’s Procedures and Strategies.

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home will provide medium to long-term placements for young people where the plan indicates this to be the most suitable intervention. Therefore, emotional sustainability, sound partnership practice, verbal and written communication techniques, the ability to form lasting relationships, commitment to working issues through, to be tenacious in working in a planned way to achieve the best outcomes for the young person through establishing small achievable targets are required.

* To ensure the Home exceeds all standards prescribed within the Quality Care Standards 2015.

* To ensure the young people’s needs are met in line with the 5 Every Child Matters outcomes.

* To promote the practice of working in partnership with young people, their families, other staff and other agencies, in order to meet the needs of young people.

* To provide effective leadership by implementing organisational strategies, in order to enable objectives of our client to be achieved.

* To promote team development and effective team working.

* To maximise the effectiveness of staff through motivation, development and the application of personnel policies.

* To take the lead in setting standards and evaluating achievements; to take a proactive role in securing improvements in the quality of services provided by our client.

* To contribute to the development of corporate policies and service initiatives, aimed at improving the service provided by our client.

* To ensure that there is a Statement of Purpose in place, which is appropriate to the needs of young people and outlines qualifications, experience and expertise of the staff employed within the homes.

* To set and review targets and objectives for the home’s staff team in order to ensure that work is focused and has clear direction.

* To provide operational management of the staff team and to deploy appropriate staff resources in order that key tasks are fulfilled. To ensure that sufficient back up resources are available in emergency/out of hours situations including participation in an out of hours ‘On-Call’ rota.

* To have line management responsibilities for a staff team, ensuring that all staff receive appropriate induction, supervision and appraisal.

* To be responsible for ensuring a full flow of information into and out of the team and to develop effective communication strategies and systems which assist staff in the operation of their duties.

* To take a lead role in the gate keeping and allocation of a range of services provided to meet the identified needs of young people.

* To be responsible for the effective management and development of a range of quality direct services to young people. To ensure that the policies and procedures are implemented.

* To actively participate in recruitment, grievance, disciplinary, health and safety and other staffing matters with support from the HR Manager.

* To ensure that staff training and development needs are identified and ensuring that those needs are met. To assist in training staff as required.

* To ensure that all Health and Safety Regulations are complied with in accordance with policies, procedures and practices.

* To regularly inspect the condition of the structure, fabric, furnishings and fittings of the building to ensure that all necessary equipment, etc. is in good working order and of a reasonable and acceptable standard of repair.

* To ensure that effective finance budgets, control, administration and records comply with the home’s expectations and procedures.

* To promote and implement the companies Equality and Diversity policies and procedures.

* To ensure that staff understand and implement the companies Child Protection Procedures.

* To undertake any other such duties as required by the Directors, commensurate with the grade of the post.

Other Requirements

* To set, monitor and evaluate standards at individual, team performance and service quality so that the user and Company requirements are met and that the highest standards are maintained.

* To establish and manage the team communications systems ensuring that the Company procedures, policies, strategies and objectives are effectively communicated to all team members.

* To ensure that professional practice in the team is carried out to the highest standards and developed in line with the Company stated objectives of continual improvement in quality of its service to internal and external customers.

Health and Safety

To ensure that the Health and Safety policy, organisation arrangements and procedures as they related to areas, activities and personnel under your control are understood, implemented and monitored.

General Management

To provide vision and leadership to staff within a specialist team, ensuring that effective systems are in place for workload allocation and management, the application of the company’s policies and procedures, including those relating to equality, supervision and appraisal and all aspects of their performance, personal development, health and welfare.

Financial Management

To manage a designated budget (as required) ensuring that the company achieves value for money in all circumstances through the monitoring and control of expenditure and the early identification of any financial irregularity.

Supervision and Appraisal

All members of staff will receive supervision and appraisal and it is the responsibility of each member of staff to follow the company’s procedure in respect of supervision and appraisal.

Equality and Diversity

As an organisation we are committed to promoting a just society that gives everyone an equal chance to learn, work and live free from discrimination and prejudice. To ensure our commitment is put into practice we have developed policies, which will seek to remove any barriers to equality of opportunity and to eliminate unfair and unlawful discrimination.

All members of staff are required to undertake that they will not divulge to anyone personal and/or confidential information to which they may have access during the course of their work.

Probation: Appointments are subject to satisfactory completion of a probationary period, normally 6 months.

DBS Disclosure: An Enhanced DBS Disclosure will be required for this post.

Avocet Staffing are acting as a recruitment company on behalf of our client. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days of your application, please assume that you are have not been successful on this occasion.