Registered Children’s Home Manager

Registered Children’s Home Manager

Location:

Basildon

Reports to:

Responsible Individual Organisational

Relationships:

The post holder will be accountable to the Responsible Individual of Residential Services. The Registered Manager will be responsible for all children, staff working within or from the Children’s Home as identified by the Responsible Individual.

Description of Role:

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 key workers are planned, provided and applied in accordance with the home’s Statement of Purpose and policies and procedures.

Context of the Post:
The post holder will be the ‘Registered Manager’ for the home as specified in the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and required to fulfil the obligations set out in the guide. The 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.

Duties and Responsibilities Specific to the Post:

• To be responsible for the management, co-ordination and development of a range of quality services for young people referred and/or accommodated within the home.

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

• To implement a behavioural framework within the home and for staff to be trained effectively to follow such methods.

• To provide effective leadership by implementing organisational strategies, in order to enable objectives of the service to be achieved.

• To promote team development and effective team working.

• To maximise the effectiveness of staff through motivation, development and the application of the cpmanies 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.

• To contribute to the development of corporate policies and service initiatives, aimed at improving the service.

• 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 home.

• 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 ensure that the staff team are enabled to undertake such duties with young people who is non-resident or who have been resident in order to provide continuity of care where appropriate or to avoid admission to the looked after system where this is in the best interest of the young person concerned.

• 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…