Daisy, a small residential family home, is on the search for an experienced and motivated registered Ofsted manager who is also a registered social worker. The ideal candidate will have a proven success of at least a 'Good’ rating with Ofsted and will register with Ofsted to open and manage a new Residential Family Centre, with up to four families in Basingstoke. It is due to open in November 2023. As a Registered Manager and Social worker, you will deliver fair, robust, evidenced-based, and child-centred assessments in line with best practice and childcare legislation to our residents. You will work with families to develop their parenting capacity to achieve the best outcomes for them and their children. If you want to be like your own boss. Look no further and apply today to join our friendly family at Daisy! Key responsibilities Job Purpose
1. To be responsible for the day-to-day management of the centre and the staff.
2. To be responsible for delivering the centres ‘Statement of Purpose’ which you will keep under regular review.
3. To ensure that the staff team provides and maintains the highest levels of care and service in accordance with the legislative framework, company procedures, ethos, and policy.
4. To have understanding, experience, and knowledge of working within the Residential Family Centres National Minimum Standards, Residential Family Centres Regulations 2002; Care Standards Act 2000 and understanding of Ofsted’s regulatory framework.
5. To have a secure knowledge of childcare law and safeguarding issues.
6. To work within the framework for the assessment of children in need and their families.
Managing Service Delivery
7. To contribute to ensure all matters of statutory compliance are implemented for the home and ensure that all statutory requirements are met.
8. To perform risk assessments and risk management at regular intervals and ensure admission and discharge are properly managed, and reflect decisions recorded in relevant plans.
9. To Implement the relevant plan for each family and monitor progress against the relevant plan and ensure it is reviewed as necessary.
10. To ensure good working relationships with parents and children, other family members, all relevant Local Authority staff, solicitors, social workers, and all other relevant statutory agencies, e.g., police and child protection as required.
11. To carry out parenting assessments and produce a high standard assessment report linked clearly to the court instruction and/or local authority requirements and delivered within the timescales specified.
12. To represent the organisation at court, providing written and verbal evidence as required.
13. To Teach parenting skills and practices and deliver sessions to parents, helping them become the best parents they can be.
14. To actively promote Daisy’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and their mothers.
15. To be able to analyse and address complex family situations.
16. To monitor and evaluate the effects of any intervention on a child's emotional and physical wellbeing.
Managing People
17. To supervise other staff members and provide knowledge, experience, motivation, mentoring, support, and guidance to them. To act as a consultant to them.
18. To maintain effective communication systems, including handovers, logbooks, and staff meetings
19. To be part of the on-call rota and manage the rota to ensure minimum staffing level is in maintained.
Managing Resources
20. To ensure that the home is kept in a clean, tidy, and well-maintained condition and that repairs, linen and furnishings are of an adequate standard.
21. To ensure that adequate and appropriate security, health and safety and fire safety monitoring and recording systems operate within the Home.
Key Sills
22. Skills in child development
23. Effective assessment skills
24. Excellent report writing and good verbal communication skills.
25. Excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
26. Excellent IT skills
Qualification and experience/ essential
27. Have at least 2 years’ experience of working within the assessment of children in need and their families /parental assessment framework.
28. Or have worked in a children's social work-related role and /or child social care, such as a looked after children’s team.
29. Have a degree in social work and be social work England (SWE) registered.
30. Have a NVQ Level 3/4 in Children, young people.
31. Have a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services but desirable not necessary, however must be willing to work towards this.
You will have a car and a clean driving licence.