Registered Children's Home Manager

4 months ago


Ashford, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

Role Responsibility

We can offer you a competitive salary starting at £49,522, plus market premium payments, staff benefits package and excellent career development in a fast moving and expanding service for UAS children.

Kent County Councils Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking (UAS) Childrens Service provides accommodation and support to newly arrived unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent. The Service leads on social work practice with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Kent, which Ofsted recognises as Outstanding. The Service is developing as a centre of excellence for social work practice nationally and we are seeking passionate individuals to join our service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Services Childrens Home teams. The Reception and Safe Care Services are Kent County Council owned, Ofsted regulated, childrens homes and supported accommodation, collectively termed Reception Centres. The Reception Centres, and the services they provide to children, are run by a diverse team of managers and workers, who are all committed to ensuring children are protected and supported to take the first steps in their journey to a more permanent home elsewhere in the UK.

We are seeking experienced Childrens Home Managers who are familiar with Ofsted regulation and setting high standards within a childrens home.

Managers need to be adept at running a home and managing a group of staff to enable them to meet the care needs of UAS children. Successful applicants will be passionate and skilled in quality assuring practice whilst able to motivate and inspire staff to provide the best care to UAS children at the start of their resettlement journey.

Youll be a champion of social care values, delivering and improving services for children and young people. Your day-to-day support and high-quality supervision will ensure your team can meet complex and changing demands of the service, as well as enable their ongoing development.

You should be confident in your ability to lead and develop a team. With an in-depth understanding of safeguarding procedures, legislative frameworks and social work theories relating to child services, youll have the expertise needed to contribute to practice and policy development.

This role requires Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England) or equivalent.

If you have the skills to oversee and coordinate a high standard of care afforded to UAS children, this is the role for you - please apply.

Our Offer

Full induction Basic salary of between £49,522 and £57,712 Market premiums as follows: £4,000 Golden Hello £3,000 Annual Retention Premium (paid in instalments) £2,000 Service-Related Premium (paid in instalments) £1,000 additional payment upon successful Ofsted registration Annual leave allowance of 29 to 30 days Relocation packages up to £8,000 Excellent local government pension scheme Opportunities to develop in your career The opportunity to develop knowledge in niche areas of social work and expand your knowledge and skills of working with children seeking asylum

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service.


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