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Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children & young people and positively impacting their lives? We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and passionate individual to lead our new Mental Health Residential Home as the Registered Manager, on a full-time permanent basis.
Location of the post: Coalville, Leicestershire.
Service Overview: Barnardo's, the UK's largest Children's Charity are currently on an exciting and innovative Journey alongside Leicestershire County Council to deliver a range of Children's homes for the most vulnerable children & young people in Leicestershire.
Although Ivan House will be your base location, you must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to support our other Leicestershire Residential Services should the need arise. Our homes are located in Hinckley, Coalville, Braunstone, Market Harborough and Syston.
Ivan House, our beautiful new Mental Health Residential home in Coalville will support children & young people with a range of complex needs, providing a nurturing environment that enables them to continue to recover from the mental health issues that led to their admission to a Tier 4 CAMHS unit. The home will meet the specific needs of children & young people who are ready for discharge and no longer require inpatient mental health services, but are not yet able or ready to return to home or still require a period of time in a therapeutic setting.
Some of the responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
* Managing a team of Residential workers and coordinating staffing rotas.
* Working together with the Local Authority and CAMHS to ensure effective matching and placement of young people.
* To create a culture and ethos where the complex needs of the individual young people and the group are met.
* Quality assure transition plans and to ensure that these are aspirational in terms of supporting the children to achieve.
* To ensure that the physical environment of the home always remains at a high standard.
* Hold team meetings in order to share information, practice development and share any arising issues with the management team for resolution.
* Attend a variety of formal meetings in order to represent the Service and/or on behalf of the Children's Services Manager.
* Contribute to service development.
* This role includes an expectation of on call, rota cover and out of hours working.
* Part of the role will be assist with the mobilisation of the home.
Essential requirements to evidence in your written application:
* Must hold a valid UK drivers' licence.
* Must hold a Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare.
* Must hold OR be willing to complete in a timely manner the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young People's services.
* At least 3 years' experience working with children (within the last 5 years) and at least 2 years at Senior level supervision or management experience working with children/young people in a residential setting.
* Experience in working of working with children and young people with mental health issues within a multi-disciplinary team and/or in an inter-agency context alongside CAMHS.
* Sound knowledge and experience of working with OFSTED Regulations and Quality Standards of Children's homes with the ability to support the service to achieve a rating of outstanding.
* Sound knowledge and experience of recording and reporting to enable safeguarding and protection of children & young people.
For more information about this role, please contact Karen Ciantar - karen.ciantar@barnardos.org.uk
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
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