What's involved with this role: Interim Children's Home Registered Manager - Residential Service Reference no: Bradford 5256112 Pay Rate: £321.29 per day PAYE 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 2 months City: BRADFORD Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role Be approved by Ofsted to act as the Home Registered Manager. The post holder must ensure that high standards of practice are achieved and that services are delivered in accordance and compliance with the National Children’s Home Regulations (2015), Children’s Homes Quality Standards(2015) and Bradford Childrens and Families Trust ’ internal policies, procedures and guidance.You will support the Children’s Residential Service to achieve the best outcomes for children and young people and ensure they have the opportunity to thrive. You will ensure legislative and regulatory requirements regarding all issues (Human Resources, Health and Safety, Environmental Health etc) but especially regarding the care of children. Particularly you will ensure that the Home meets all regulatory requirements to achieve Ofsted gradings of Good or Outstanding. Key Responsibilities: Take leadership and management responsibility for the development and shaping of dynamic and creative plans for children and young people living in the home, with a complex range of needs due to, but not exclusively, early trauma and attachment. These children and young people often struggle to build relationships and understand their emotions which can result in complex and risk-taking behaviour. Children and young people may need additional therapeutic support or specialist input which you will be responsible for identifying within the care planning process to ensure these needs are met. Manage the home in order to safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people, taking the role as designated safeguarding lead for the home; and take all reasonable steps and support staff in the home to locate and ensure the safe return of any young people who are missing from the home. Ensure the home operates within the Quality Standards and Children’s Homes Regulations (2015), paying attention to detail to ensure the home is judged as ‘good ‘or ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted. Lead the Regulation 44 monitoring visits and regulatory inspections from Ofsted, as well as supporting the staff to contribute to the process. Ensure that timely, focussed action plans are developed and implemented to meet any requirements or recommendations following Regulation 44 monitoring visits or Ofsted inspections. You will complete the Regulation 45 Quality of Care Reviews every 6 months, ensuring that feedback is gained from all stakeholders to Inform and develop the Children’s Home Development Plan. Ensure that the home has a staff development and training programme that enables staff to be skilled and knowledgeable in order to meet the needs of young people in the home as defined by the Home Statement of Purpose and Function Provide formal and informal supervision to staff and undertake appraisals. Take responsibility for the development of staff, participate in the recruitment and retention of staff. Share knowledge and experience with the team and identify opportunities for the continuing professional development of the staff team. Monitor and ensure that all mandatory training is undertaken and kept up-to-date, as well as delivering training when required. Lead and manage the staff team in supporting the day to day physical and emotional needs of the children and young people in accordance with Racial, Cultural, Religious, linguistic and dietary needs. Qualifications: Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services with Children and Young People’s Residential Management Pathway. Equivalent Qualifications as set out in ANNEX A –Qualifications for staff working in children’s homes, Guide to the Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality Standards, April 2015 Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare. NVQ Level 4 Leadership and Management for Care Services. Must have been a Registered Manager (with Ofsted) for at least 2 Years. Knowledge: Knowledge of key reports influencing the development of residential care, including multi-agency guidance such as Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018. Must have a detailed knowledge and understanding of Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, especially regarding children with profound intellectual and physical disabilities. Knowledge of current evidence-based research about the needs of children and young people who have experienced significant trauma, difficulties forming relationships and attachments, and require support to manage/regulate their own behaviour and mental health. Must have a good knowledge and understanding of respite and short break services and how these operate. Experience: At least 2 years in a position relevant to the residential care of children. At least 1 year in a role requiring the supervision and management of staff working in a care role (i.e. a position which consists mainly or solely of providing care for children. Experience of care planning and quality assurance commensurate with the Registered Manager role. Must have worked for at least 6 months in the last year as an RM in a Children’s Home for Children with Disabilities. Substantial experience of direct work with children and young people and their families. Must have prior experience of working within a Children’s Home, as a manager or assistant manager, providing short breaks services to severely disabled children. Experience of quality assurance processes and systems. Skills & Abilities: Ability to adopt a process of continual improvement and suggest ways of working more efficient and effectively to improve service delivery and is able to implement effective performance management techniques to meet service needs Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please