Principal

5 months ago


Market Rasen, United Kingdom VAL's Community Full time

**About**:
VAL's Community are an inclusive, supportive and rewarding organisation who provide care and education for children and young people with Learning Disabilities and associated health and social conditions.

We are the only trauma recovery-based Learning Disability provider in the UK for children and young people.

Our **SAFETY **values underpin both what we believe and how we behave, creating a pathway for children and young people to excel:

- **S**AFEGUARDING - at the heart of everything we do
- **A**CCEPTANCE - we have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination
- **F**OCUS - our values and ethos compliment the highly regulated industry we work in
- **E**MOTIONAL RESILIENCE - we work together to build emotional resilience
- **T**EAMWORK - our values and ethos support good teamwork
- **Y**OUNG PEOPLE - we build on skills that will nurture our young people to achieve good outcomes

**Automatic enrolment onto our Westfield Health Benefit Scheme with cash back on optical and dental plans, gym and retail discounts, gift vouchers, bonus schemes and many more**

If you are currently a Registered Manager or a Senior Manager or equivalent in the Health and Social Sector and feel you can fulfil the role, please apply

**Salary**: up to £65,000 per annum inclusive of performance bonus

**Responsible to**: Operations Director

**Responsible for**: Care and Education Staff including Line Management of Head Teacher
**Overall Objectives**:

- To take overall management responsibility for the residential and education services
- Oversee all matters in relation to safeguarding children within the schools and homes, ensuring that all relevant third parties are involved as appropriate and that matters are dealt with in line with Company policies and procedures and statutory requirements
- Respond to distressed young people in a non-threatening manner and attempt to understand the source of their discomfort
- Build relationships with young people to encourage trust, while listening to and interpreting their needs and concerns
- To ensure that the strategic vision, qualitative objectives and ethos of care are implemented throughout the homes and school in a timely manner and to budget.
- To ensure each young person has been given the opportunity to attend qualitative education consistent with the requirements of the Ofsted and each children’s home meets the standards and expectations
- Manage and undertake on-site audits of all settings and compiling feedback reports for Managers and Teachers, outlining any issues concerns and remedial actions to be taken.
- Maintaining awareness of the business context and company profitability, including budgetary control issues.
- To advise the Operations Director and the Board and to recommend strategy and policy developments to support quality in service delivery and to establish and maintain best-practice systems, risk appraisal and quality assurance procedures to ensure high quality, high value services and good outcomes for young people and Local Authorities.
- To provide regular performance reports to the Board and the Operations Director.
- To secure timely, effective and efficient gathering of accurate management information, including lessons learnt from complaints, case reviews, inspection, collate Key Performance Indicator reports and all compliance activity.
- To be involved in preparing annual budgets and ensure effective financial control within agreed budgets across the organisation.
- To ensure that staff are recruited, trained, managed, appraised and developed in accordance with internal and statutory procedures.
- To be an active and effective member of the senior management team, working with the Operations Director and other members of the Board on matters including corporate management and the development and promotion of a child focused organisation
- Ensure that the Head Teacher and Senior Care Team are always prepared for Ofsted inspections.
- Promote genuine equality and diversity in all aspects of service delivery.
- To maintain confidentiality and observe data protection and associated guidelines where appropriate.
- Support the Head Teacher in ensuring that school improvement plans focus on the:

- Quality of Education
- Behaviour and Attitudes
- Personal Development
- Leadership and Management
- Sixth Form Provision where applicable.

**General Duties**
- To always comply with the company’s legal, contractual and regulatory requirements and responsibilities in relation to the above duties.
- To represent the company externally and to promote its work and values.
- o lead, develop and co-ordinate participation and engagement processes and activity with children, young people and staff.
- To interpret legislation and implement this in relation to the continued production of high quality services, providing a clear sense of direction and purpose.
- To carry out other duties reasonably requested by the Operations Director, which fall within the re



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