JOB TITLE: Registered Manager Children's Homes

REPORTS TO: Managing Director

SALARY SCALE: £47,840 - £52,000.

The Registered Manager will be rewarded for successful judgements from Ofsted with individual bonus payments for an Outstanding or Good rating.

The manager will participate in an “on call”, out of hours service for the homes, which will be paid additionally.

Furthermore, should the Registered Manager be required to undertake a sleep-in duty, this will be paid at a rate of £78.48 per night.

PURPOSE OF JOB: The post holder will be contracted to work within a Children's Residential Services and is responsible for the management of up to 2 Children's Homes with either 1 or 2 residents. On a day-to-day basis the manager of the Children's Homes exercises responsibility for children requiring residential care. The post holder will ensure the efficient and effective management of all resources allocated to the homes and ensure quality services are provided for 'Children Looked After' whilst working within the policies procedures and guidelines.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES, TASKS & DUTIES

Develop and implement methods to establish the needs of children as part of the individual Local Authorities care planning arrangements. Through the care plan approach, maximise choice and ensure that the service is provided in a planned and effective way.

Manage physical resources to meet all appropriate legislative and regulatory requirements, taking action to minimise risk to people, plant and property.

Manage, monitor and control activities against delegated budgets. Manage, monitor and control physical environment to meet legislative and regulatory requirements. Manage, monitor and control human resources to ensure effective delivery of service to meet statutory and legislative requirements.

Create and maintain the necessary conditions for effective service delivery.

To promote by personal example and through appropriate management, good social work practice, professional conduct and ethical standards.

Establish and maintain monitoring systems within the Home and participate in monitoring and evaluation processes.

Contribute to the selection of key performance indicators to monitor projects, performance and plans.

To work within the policies, practices and procedures of Positive Independence. To meet the requirements as a Registered Manager as set out in the Children's Homes National Minimum Standards care Standards Act 2000 and the Children Act 2004.

MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE

Full managerial responsibility for (ordinarily) up to 12 staff members to include a Deputy Manager and Residential Care Workers.

SUPERVISION OF PEOPLE

Supervision includes planning, organising, allocating and evaluating work carried out by teams and individuals against performance indicators and targets.

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION

Creativity and innovation are essential to the job but exercised within a general framework of recognised procedures that is underpinned by legislative and regulatory requirements. The post holder will exercise creativity when introducing and developing quality assurance systems to evaluate service delivery. Identifying opportunities for improvement and change in services, evaluating and proposing changes and negotiating their implementation. Planning activities and determining work methods to achieve objectives. This involves the development, maintenance, review and improvement of development activities to meet identified development needs. Contributing to the identification of training needs within the staff team and assisting in the implementation of agreed training programmes for all staff to include the development of in-house training and the nomination of staff for departmental and other training courses. Identifying the scope for improving the efficient and effective use of the home's resources