Senior Residential Childcare Manager

4 weeks ago

Arran, North Ayrshire, United Kingdom CareTech UK Full time

About Spark of Genius, one of Scotland's largest residential child care providers.

We have been delivering high quality care to young people who need to be looked after for over 25 years.

We are part of the UK-wide CareTech family, committed to providing each child with opportunities to have their individual needs met.

The team at Spark of Genius support their young people to develop strong and positive relationships, offering a therapeutic and peaceful environment for the young people to learn, grow and develop.

This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated and trauma-informed team, and to work directly with young people with a range of complex needs connected to their individual life experiences and childhood adversity.

Our mission is to make Every Second Count, to help us succeed you will:

  • Provide a supervisory and mentoring role to RCCWs who will be providing a caring role to our Young people.
  • Take responsibility for practice development of the care team including allocated supervision and performance management of staff.
  • Ensure that the care team have the skills, knowledge and ability to care for children and young people effectively.
  • Assist with management tasks including finance, fleet, environment and Health and Safety, staffing matters including absence, recruitment, training and development.
  • Contribute to assessment and care plan arrangements, participating in reviews and other meetings as necessary.
  • Ensure both local authority and internal care plans are in place and that staff fully understand their role
  • Ensure staff are aware of and deliver the support required to ensure the life chance opportunities of the young people for their social, educational, leisure, emotional, physical, and cultural needs are met.
  • Safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people.
  • A minimum of 2 years experiences as Residential Child Care Worker
  • Wide knowledge of the behaviours displayed by children and young people and an understanding of a myriad of intervention strategies
  • Wide knowledge of the behaviours displayed by children and young people and an
  • Working Knowledge of legislation in relation to child care including National Care Standards and Child protection.
  • An understanding of the process of child development.
  • Knowledge of how to apply systems and processes within residential homes that are compliant with the national care standards
  • Ability to work shifts including evening and weekends
  • Required to have SSSC conditions for Residential Child Care Worker fully met (eg SVQ 3/SQF 6/7 AND HNC/ Academic equivalent).
  • Required to have Commencement of SQF Level 9 Children and Young People, and /or a practice qualification in the Management Category or equivalent that meets SSSC requirement when in post.
  • SQF Level 9 Children and Young People, and /or a practice qualification in the Management Category is desirable.
  • Professional Care qualification (BA Hons Social Work or equivalent) is desirable.
  • Appropriate registration with the SSSC or any other relevant regulatory bodies is desirable.

As part of this role, we offer a range of specialist training programmes to support you in your work and invest in your professional development.

Every Second Counts:

bespoke training on the role of a residential childcare worker

Therapeutic crisis intervention training to assist young people in regulating their emotion

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