Children's Registered Home Manager - Burscough or Southport

Salary :£55,000 per annum (dependant upon experience)

My client is a therapeutic children's service providing care and support to children and young people aged 8-17, from complex backgrounds, who display challenging behaviour and EBD. The service is an independent social care organisation with multiple residential units across the whole of the North West. The senior leadership team has been transformed to ensure the right people have oversight of the organisation.

We believe that consistency in care is paramount to children/young people with complex needs, to this end we are committed to developing and maintaining good communicative relationships with the child/young person.

We use a systemic therapeutic approach to support the nurture and care of our children. The systemic approach is rooted in attachment theory, and uses trauma informed approaches. We are currently introducing a comprehensive framework of assessment and outcome monitoring using the Secure Base Model.

About The Role

MAIN DUTIES

* To ensure the base home provides and maintains the highest levels of care and service in accordance with the company's mission, vision, policies and procedures.

* To provide professional support, training, guidance, and supervision to residential staff, within the home.

* To support the team to ensure person-centred care plans are established, renewed, maintained, and implemented for each child or young person.

* To support the team to manage effectively and efficiently all allocated resources of the home, financially.

* To support the plan of the daily and weekly management of the home. Supporting and ensuring that the shift leaders and Home Managers carry out their duties and responsibilities.

* To work with professional colleagues to ensure each child or young person's best interests are identified and plans established to meet them.

* To work with the Responsible Individual to implement, create and monitor a framework of care systems to enable the above.

* To devise and deliver a home rota and ensure that the requirements are met, in respect of the allocation of staff and needs of the children placed.

* To be involved and adjudicate in staff disciplinary procedures.

Main internal and external contacts:

To form, develop and maintain professional relationships with:

* Children and young people looked after at your base home and homes within your responsible locality area

* Families

* Team members

* Other professionals working with looked after young people

* Child, young person's advocate or representative

* Ofsted

Key Responsibilities:

Managing service delivery

* To fulfil the role of the Registered Manager as defined within the Care Standards Act, this may include travel within the UK.

* To deliver on the content of the Certificate of Registration and the Statement of Purpose for the establishment.

* To protect children and young people from risks to their health, welfare and normal development, both inside and outside the Home.

* Ensure the home environment is appropriate and sensitive to the needs of the children and young people being looked after and complies with the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and quality standard

If interested please do apply with your cv and Daniel will be in touch to discuss