JAYCO Recruitment – Skelmersdale, Lancashire
Responsibilities and Key Roles for the Registered Children's Home Manager: £circa 55k
To ensure the base home provides and maintains the highest levels of care and service in accordance with the company’s mission, vision, policies, and procedures. To provide professional support, training, guidance, and supervision to residential staff within the home. To support the team to ensure person-centred care plans are established, renewed, maintained, and implemented for each child or young person.
To support the team to manage effectively and efficiently all allocated resources of the home, financially. To support the plan of the daily and weekly management of the home. Supporting and ensuring that the shift leaders and Home Managers carry out their duties and responsibilities.
To work with professional colleagues to ensure each child or young person’s best interests are identified and plans established to meet them. To work with the Responsible Individual to implement, create and monitor a framework of care systems to enable the above. To devise and deliver a home rota and ensure that the requirements are met, in respect of the allocation of staff and needs of the children placed.
Main Relationships to manage:
1. Children and young people looked after at your base home and homes within your responsible locality area
2. Families
3. Team members
4. Other professionals working with looked after young people
5. Child, young person’s advocate or representative
6. Ofsted
Key Responsibilities:
1. Managing service delivery
2. To fulfil the role of the Registered Manager as defined within the Care Standards Act, this may include travel within the UK.
3. To deliver on the content of the Certificate of Registration and the Statement of Purpose for the establishment.
4. To protect children and young people from risks to their health, welfare, and normal development, both inside and outside the Home.
5. Ensure the home environment is appropriate and sensitive to the needs of the children and young people being looked after and complies with the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and quality standards.
6. To use the residential experience to support social learning for children and young people.
7. To actively promote the involvement of all children and counter isolation of individuals by others.
8. To ensure critical stages in the stay of children and young people, such as admission and discharge, are appropriately managed and reflect decisions recorded in care plans.
9. To ensure that children facing crisis and stresses are offered appropriate additional support and staff are supported in dealing with the most complex cases.
10. To participate in developing, implementing, and monitoring individual children's care plans.
11. To develop and maintain good working relationships with parents and other family members, social workers, school staff, and other professionals concerned for the children's needs, such as general practitioners or psychologists.
12. To ensure compliance with the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and quality standards.
13. To provide leadership, guidance, and management to staff within the Home.
14. To ensure that there is a training plan for the Home, including induction and ongoing training compliant with the Care Standards Act.
15. To create a positive and supportive culture within the staff team.
16. To participate in the on-call system.
A brilliant opportunity to join a company where standards are excellent and the care provided is exceptional.
For inquiries, please contact: ***************@jaycorec.co.uk or call 01916914200.
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