OFSTED Registered Manager

Registered Manager - Residential Childrens Home
Accountable to:
Responsible Individual

About us
We provide care & support to children and young people in various locations across
London and the surrounding counties. Our semi-independent projects are for care leavers, who do not possess the ability to live independently and require 24/7 staff support. The focus of our service delivery is to help and support our clients to develop their independent living skills whilst in transition towards adulthood and being able to manage their own tenancy in the community effectively.

Thus, we are obliged to ensure its policies and procedures are aimed at safeguarding the service users.

We are currently setting up Residential Children's homes and seeking a Registered Children's Home Manager who has the ability to build and maintain rapport with clients while providing an exceptional level of service.

As a Registered Manager, you will play a key role in maintaining supervision and care of children and will be responsible for planning and managing the day-to- day functions within the home. You must have experience in working in a Residential Children's Home setting.
Working as a Children's Home Registered Manager, you must be willing to go above and beyond for the children and young people, ensuring that they have an experience of childhood that they can reflect upon and carry with them into adulthood. Your team must be driven by a shared ambition to ensure that the children and young people have an experience of childhood that they deserve, one filled with fun, laughter, friendship and discovery.

Job Purpose
To lead and manage the Children Homes consistent with the approach and therapeutic ethos of the home, delivering high quality care and outcomes for children placed in them.
To ensure that the homes Statement of Purpose is adhered to throughout all working practice.
To achieve “Good” with the aspirational focus to achieve an “Outstanding” Service under Children’s Home Regulations and Ofsted Regulatory framework

Key Responsibilities and Main duties
General:
 Responsibility for the management of services, including staff management and
supervisions, care and placement planning, safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring overall quality and compliance of service
 Ensure that full implementation of statutory ad organizational policies and procedures and provide feedback on the effectiveness of all policies and procedures
 Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the
Children’s Home Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Children’s Act 1989, Data Protection and GDPR, Health and Safety at Work Act and Working Together to
Safeguard children 2019.
 Ensure that the staff have the skills, experience and qualifications required to meet the individual needs of each child. To ensure that consistency of care is provided.
 To be an inspirational manager, ensuring outstanding leadership of the whole service
which supports both children and the team working for the service.
 Ensure that all required reports are completed in line with timescales. This includes
monthly review of the service through monitoring and audits linking into the service
development plan.
 To ensure that the principles of equality and diversity are embedded in the culture of the home
 To ensure that each child has individual care and care planning which is child focused and personalized to meet their needs. These plans should be reflective of the long-term plan for the child, working closely with the placing Local Authorities.
 To oversee and manage the move plan for any child moving to our home and establish positive multi agency and partnership working
 To have outstanding partnership relationships with the team around each child,
relationships which are professional and represent the organisation to the highest
standards. To ensure that engagement is regularly maintained with all multi agency
professionals and where appropriate partners, families, and other stakeholders.
 To ensure that referrals are considered in a timely manner and comprehensive impact risk assessments are completed when considering any…