Residential Childcare Manager

If you are an ambitious Registered Children’s Home Manager seeking a fulfilling new role, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career within a rapidly growing organisation.
Company Overview:
An organisation committed to revolutionising children's homes, operating asa supportive family in a thriving community where children form lasting friendships, explore their interests and develop essential life skills. This inclusive environment promotes social connections and personal growth, with personalised care that recognises each child's individual strengths, challenges and aspirations. Collaborating closely with parents, guardians, and professionals, this approach ensures compassionate and specialized care, nurturing children to thrive and realise their fullest potential.
What will the role involve?
As the Residential Children’s Home Manager, you will lead and oversee the management of a residential home in Maghull. Your role will encompass strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, personnel management, resource oversight, and continuous service improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
* Have responsibility for the management of services, including staff management and supervision, care and placement planning, safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring quality and compliance
* Ensure full implementation of statutory and organisational policies and procedures and provide feedback on the effectiveness of all policies and procedures
* Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Children’s Homes Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Childrens Act 1989, Data Protection Act 1998, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018
* To be responsible for developing constructive working relationships within the wider community to promote the overall outcomes for looked after children
* Ensure that staff have the skills, experience and qualifications required to meet the needs of each child or young person placed in the home and provide continuity of care
* To lead and manage the home in a way that is aspirational, inspiring both children and young people and the staff who work there
* Produce monitoring reports, statistical data and evaluation as required and in keeping with organisational policies and procedures and within agreed deadline
* To ensure that the principles of equality and diversity are embedded in the culture of the home
* To ensure that each child or young person has individual care and care planning which is tailored to their specific needs and requirements as laid out in their relevant plans
* To maintain professional relationships with the team around the child, multi-agency partnerships and where appropriate parents, families and other stakeholders
Specific Responsibilities:
Service Delivery
People Management
Resource Management
Business Development
Quality and Service Development
*A full breakdown of the above is available on application
Essential Experience, Skills & Qualifications required for this role:
A minimum of Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare or equivalent; or a preparedness to work towards the same
Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
3 years’ experience working with children in the last 5 years and at least 1 year at senior level
Supervision or management experience
Working with children, young people and their families
Work in a residential setting
Inter-agency work
Children’s Home Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Single Social Care Inspection Framework (SSCIF), Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2014, Care Standards Act 2000, Children Act 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2015, Health and Safety at work and associated guidance and regulation
Policies and procedures pertaining to running a residential children’s home
Child protection, safeguarding children, impact of abuse and neglect, education and health needs of looked after children, equality and diversity and children’s rights
Care and placement planning, risk and review processes
Understanding of the education, health, social, emotional and psychological needs of looked after children and young people and how to ensure these needs are met
Ability to lead and inspire a staff team, take responsibility for staff team training and development, supervision, rosters ensuring continuity of care for each child or young person
Able to manage stress and difficult dynamics and demonstrate emotional resilience
Capable of performing a wide variety of administrative tasks consistent with the day-to-day management of a children’s home
Prioritise and organise workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality, evaluating the quality of own and others’ work and raises any quality issues and related risks to the relevant person
To be ‘fit’ to manage a children’s home as outlined in the requirements for registration as a manager
Ability to sustain and work through placement issues to prevent placement breakdowns
Ability to monitor the service for quality of care and in line with the requirements of Ofsted inspection
Ability to develop constructive working relationships with the wider community and multi-agency teams
Promote equality and value diversity by interpreting equality, diversity and rights in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant standards
Identify patterns of discrimination and take actions to overcome this and enable others to promote quality and diversity and a non-discriminatory culture that supports people in exercising their rights
Benefits:
Competitive salary
Pension
Schedule: Full-time/40 hours per week
Location: L31/in person

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