Registered Manager, Children's Residential in Standish, Lancashire

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Registered Manager within the Children’s Residential Service to work full time for Endless Possibilities, based in Standish, Greater Manchester.

The salary for this Registered Manager job is up to £60,000 per annum.

Main duties:

• To lead in the provision of high-quality therapeutic care to children and young people at all times during their placement within Endless Possibility providing a role model to, and support for colleagues.

• To complete accurate monitoring of the home and work within the regulations and quality standards of the home.

• To supervise staff and keep accurate records while reporting any concerns to the Responsible Individual.

• To support Ofsted and Regulation 44 Inspections.

• To build professional relationships and information share with external agencies where required (e.g. Children’s Social Care, Police, Education, Health, YOS, etc).

• To ensure appropriate standards of practice are maintained and are consistent with principles, standards and the philosophy of Endless Possibility.
• To ensure policies and procedures are compliant with current legislation and regulations related to childcare practices.

• The ability to build relationships with children and young people who have experienced trauma and build relationships with them.

• To adopt the Team Teach framework when managing behaviour, in order to best avoid confrontation and the unnecessary use of force.

• To attend all current, relevant training and ensure accountability for personal development.

• To support staff in key working duties where appropriate and facilitate good relationships with other agencies and young people’s family and carers.

• To take a positive interest in the young people’s educational progress, to monitor their homework and link with school in a parental capacity, in accordance with the care plan.

• To help and foster the young person’s interest in the world they live in.

• To maintain all records, administration and the home’s budget.

• To identify the religious, ethnic, gender and cultural needs of a young person and to contribute to meeting them by exploring facilities in the area and assisting the young person in making contact.

• To contribute to the implementation, monitoring and reporting on individual care plans, risk assessments, risk management plans, education and health care plans for young people who are looked after.

• To contribute towards and prepare reports for meetings and presentations.

• To arrange and co-ordinate any necessary meetings, plans or conferences, as required in relation to the needs of the looked after children.

• To ensure young people attend meetings and appointments as required.

• To arrange and manage all staff meetings and contribute towards staff team building.

Requirements of this Registered Manager:

• To hold Diploma Level 3 for Children’s and Young People’s Workforce (Social Care Pathway) or equivalent.
• To hold a level 5 in leadership and Management
• To have an awareness of the Children’s Home Regulations and Quality Standards (2015).
• To have a minimum of 2 years residential experience working with vulnerable children and young people.
• To produce good quality written reports on the progress of young people and to work to a high standard.
• Have a professional commitment to the personal development and training of staff.
• Have the ability to work in a stressful and busy environment.

Contact:
This Registerer Manager job is advertised by Sam Bellotti; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.