What's involved with this role: Interim Children’s Residential Registered Manager Job Ref: Surrey 103959 Pay Rate: £331.46 per day PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 7 months City: REIGATE 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 (Health and Safety, Environmental Health etc) but especially regarding the care of children. Key Responsibilities: Have good regulatory knowledge with a practical understanding of Children's Homes Regulations and the Ofsted inspection framework Prioritise safeguarding children and young people and ensure positive outcomes through creative and innovative methods Can demonstrate a strength-based, individualised, and proactive leadership approach underpinned by collaboration and effective assessment and risk management Understand and foster an inclusive and positive team culture, providing support so that staff and children feel welcomed, valued and able to achieve their potential Can establish and build trust with staff, children and key stakeholders across residential services and care Please provide a one page cover letter including the following information: Qualifications: Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare or equivalent and an ability to meet Ofsted regulatory requirements to become a Registered Manager Knowledge: In depth knowledge of delivering statutory childcare services 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. Experience: At least 2 years' experience within children's residential care, within the last 5 years 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: Proven leadership and managerial skills in a social care or health setting Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with a range of individuals, built on trust in sometimes challenging situations 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. Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you) – please give full details within your CV document. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. 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