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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 Emotional Wellbeing Assessment Home as the Registered Manager, on a full-time permanent basis.
Location of the post: Hinckley, 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 this home will be your base location, you must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to support our other Leicestershire homes should the need arise. Our homes are located in Hinckley, Coalville, Mountsorrel, Braunstone, and Syston.
Jarvis House, our beautiful new Emotional Well-being Assessment home in Hinckley, supports children & young people aged between 8-18, providing short-term placements until their needs are fully appraised and understood. The service provides up to 3 service users at any one time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships, and develop confidence, independence, and social/emotional skills.
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 to ensure effective matching and placement of young people.
* Creating a culture and ethos where the complex needs of the individual young people and the group are met.
* Quality assuring transition plans to ensure they are aspirational in terms of supporting the children to achieve.
* Ensuring that the physical environment of the home always remains at a high standard.
* Holding team meetings to share information, practice development, and any arising issues with the management team for resolution.
* Attending a variety of formal meetings to represent the Service and/or on behalf of the Children's Services Manager.
* Contributing to service development.
* This role includes an expectation of on-call, rota cover, and out-of-hours working.
* Assisting 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 work towards 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 1 year of Senior level supervision or management experience working with children/young people in a residential setting.
* 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 Kelly Walker - kelly.walker@barnardos.org.uk / 07734979136
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.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Benefits:
* 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years of service.
* The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme.
* A host of family-friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options.
* Service-related sick pay from day 1.
* Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
* Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
* Cycle2work scheme.
* Interest-free season ticket loans.
* Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays, and much more via our Benefit Portal.
* 20% discount at Barnardo's stores.
* Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy, etc.
* Free access to a round-the-clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
* Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer.
*T&C's apply based on contract.
About Barnardo's:
At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done, or what they have been through. Please read about following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian, and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+, and Disabled candidates.
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