Senior lead-Residential Children's Home

2 months ago

Purley, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Senior lead-Residential Children's Home****
Location: Purely, South London
Hours: 37.5 hrs pw to 40 hrs pw
Salary: up to £30,160
Shifts 10hr to 12hr
Day shifts, Night shift (£50 extra paid for each worked) weekend work, bank holiday work. Overtime paid at hourly rate.
* Ofsted compliance children's home.
* Support for children / young people
* Supported Accommodation / Residential home setting.
* An established children's / young people social care provider.
* Good Starting Salary
* Good Career Progression
We are currently setting up Residential Children's homes and seeking a Senior lead, who has the ability to build and maintain rapport with clients while providing an exceptional level of service. As a Senior Lead, you will play a key role in maintaining supervision and care of children and will be responsible for planning and managing the day-to-day functions within the home. You must have experience in working in a Residential Children's Home setting / Supported accommodation setting.
Working as a Children's Home Senior Lead, you must be willing to go above and beyond for the children and young people, ensuring that they have an experience of childhood that they can reflect upon and carry with them into adulthood. Your team must be driven by a shared ambition to ensure that the children and young people have an experience of childhood that they deserve, one filled with fun, laughter, friendship and discovery.
Responsibilities
To assist the Deputy Manager/Registered Manager in achieving the aims and objectives of the Statement of Purpose. To deputise in the absence of the Registered Manager. To support and manage the staff to enable them to meet the needs of the children and young people. To undertake direct work with children and young people as appropriate. To be the responsible person in managing child protection concerns and complaints. To work in partnership with other professionals to achieve optimum outcomes for young people. To offer supervision and support to other staff in line with Quality Standards
Candidates will have
* 1-2 years of experience working with young people in a residential setting
* A supportive nature towards the young people and staff
* Experience in EBD (Emotional Behaviour Disorder)
* An uncompromising stance against poor practices
* Organised person
* Capable of working with and managing a team, as well as eliciting the best performance from the team.
* Creative person
* Counselling skills / Training skills
* Recruitment experience
* Secondary education with a good standard of literacy and numeracy
* Diploma L3 Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
* Willingness to complete Diploma L5 L&M in H&SC
Duties & Responsibilities
To meet the needs of children through:
Ensuring that each young person has an allocated key worker
Ensuring that each member of staff is aware of each child’s relevant plan’s and their responsibilities for its implementation
Carrying out the role of “on-call manager” to provide OOH support for the home, on a rota basis
Attending childcare reviews and planning meetings to provide information and achieve best outcomes for young people
Undertaking direct work with young people and acting as an appropriate role model
Assist in developing systems in which young people are consulted about the quality of care they receive
Maintaining accurate written records to record information and enable regular monitoring and evaluation to take place
Working in partnership with parents, carers and other professionals to safeguard and promote the welfare of young people.
Chairing children’s meetings and facilitating consultation with young people generally
Acting as an appropriate adult
To manage a staff team through:
Providing managerial control and direction in relation to staff duties and responsibilities
Assist with the recruitment and retention of staff including induction training for new staff into the home
Supervision of new starters during their probationary period
Develop a management style that balances the need to exercise control and give direction with the need to offer staff the opportunity for decision making
Taking responsibility for planning shifts and ensuring their smooth running when on duty
Providing consultation and informal advice and support to staff in relation to day to day matters
Offering 1:1 supervision to staff in line with Quality Standards
Identifying and progressing individual training and development needs of staff in the context of their personnel development plans
Undertaking annual appraisal of staff
Addressing issues concerning conduct and competence of staff
Conduct management investigations when required
Assist the Registered Manager in promoting personal and professional development through the appropriate delegation of duties and responsibilities
Contributing to the team and staff meetings to facilitate good communication and staff development
Ensuring staff work within the Homes policies, procedures and Quality Standards requirements
Ensuring that there are appropriate and adequate reporting and recording systems in place to comply with Quality Standards
Attending to all administration issues in the Home and the provision of weekly management information reports
General responsibilities:
To assist the Registered Manager in the implementation of all aspects of the Statement of Purpose
Contribute to the devising, implementing and evaluation of changes, with the involvement of front line staff, to continually improve services, systems and standards, in conjunction with the Registered Manager and the Senior
Management team
To deputise in the absence of the Registered Manager
To drive company vehicles – subject to policies and procedures
To work on a rota basis according to the needs of young people
To ensure that resources are allocated appropriately and financial records are accurately maintained
To receive supervision in line with the Quality Standards and to take responsibility for personal development and progress of individual training needs
To carry out all other reasonable tasks as directed by the Registered Manager

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