Overview
We are looking to recruit a Manager to take over our clients 2 bed EBD home in Chorlton, Manchester. To be considered for the role, candidates must have relevant experience within Residential childcare and either already be within a Home's Manager role or be an experienced Deputy Manager, wanting to take the next step in their career.
Overview of duties
- Overseeing and auditing of day-to-day paperwork systems within the home.
- Implementation of new systems to support the needs of the young people within the home and support team to understand/ complete these.
- Attend/ represent the home at relevant meetings for the young people, then taking and producing meeting minutes.
- Effective delegation of paperwork tasks to staff within the home to ensure that paperwork is maintained to a high standard.
- Complete and ultimately finalise/ sign off audits of incidents within the home and carry out debriefs with staff and young people.
- Responsible in maintaining financial records within the home.
- Ensure that records in the home are stored and held in a manner which is compliant with GDPR 2018 regulations.
- Embed the company's ethos of how we look after the young people within the home.
- Immediately report any unsafe practices- share concerns with the Responsible individual & outside agencies as required.
- Promote the safeguarding and wellbeing of the young people within our care.
- Encouragement for the young people to attend education and review strategies of how we are supporting this.
- Ensure that the young people's achievements are celebrated.
- Be a voice for the children and ensure that their views, wishes and feelings are documented throughout our systems within the home and shared where required.
- Ensure that the young people have access to a wide range of activities within the local area and further, in line with their interests and hobbies.
- Promote that the staff make strong and positive relationships with the young people, this supports safeguarding within our home
Leadership and management/ other expectations
- Effectively engage with the Registration process and complete tasks for this, in the required timescales.
- Be an effective decision maker when faced with difficult and unexpected situations and lead a team to also be able to do this.
- Manage a safe environment for the young people and staff, ensuring that any health and safety tasks or alike are completed.
- Supervision and appraisal of staff.
- Support staff probationary period documentation and development plans.
- Lead team meetings/ senior meetings.
- Ensure that staff in the home understand their own roles and responsibilities when looking after the young people.
- Be a strong & dedicated leader of the home, ensuring that the home is Ofsted compliant and then lead Ofsted inspections.
- Support at least monthly visits from the Regulation 44 visitor, make systems accessible to them and complete the actions given, in the actioned timescales.
- Ensure that staff within the home are aware of company policies and procedures & be confident to challenge any practice issues.
- Ensure that the home gathers feedback from various sources about the service that we provide within the home, so that this can be evidenced where required.
- To effectively manage the home and then support another service within the organisation as reasonably asked.
- To lead with staff recruitment for the home.
- Attend required training and development offered by the Responsible individual.
- Confidentiality is maintained within the home and code of conduct is adhered to.
- To share the on-call system
Requirements:
- NVQ 3 - Level 3 Diploma (QCF) qualified in Children and Young People's workforce (or equivalent)
- Must have full Driving License
- Level 5 diploma in leadership & management in residential childcare- England (or equivalent). If not already completed, must be willing to complete
- Within the last 5 years, worked for at least 2 years in a position relevant to the residential care of children
- Worked for at least one year in a role requiring the supervision and management of staff working in a care role
Additional pay:
- Bonus scheme
Benefits:
- Company pension
- On-site parking