Job Description
Responsible Individual
Duration: Permanent Contract
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: Gloucester
Salary: £61,174 - £66,223 per annum dependent on experience
We are looking for a Responsible Individual to join our clients Children and Families service based in Gloucester, who are opening childrens homes and a large, supported accommodation facility, all of which will cater for a mix of age ranges (from 9 years upwards) and needs.
Responsibilities:
* Oversee a diverse range of in-house regulated residential provision in Gloucestershire, including mainstream childrens homes
* Adopt line management responsibility for the Registered Managers for all the services in scope
* Ensure all legal responsibilities within the stated provision are effectively discharged by establishing mechanisms
* Ensure all children and young people placed in regulated services are receiving a standard of care that is compliant
* Ensure the external monitoring of practice within the homes, through supervision of the RMs
* Work directly with the RMs to individually and collectively ensure constant readiness for inspection
Requirements:
1. Extensive experience of working in statutory social care settings with children and families, including substantial experience of line managing registered childrens homes, ideally all or s...