Registered Manager

We are looking for an experienced Registered Home Manager to lead one our 4 bedroom children’s home in Goole to provide leadership to our wonderful team and create a loving nurturing home for children.

As a not for profit operator in this sector, we truly put the needs of our children ahead of profits and enhance the children's care by the provision of our in‑house clinical team providing extensive psychologically‑informed care as well as accessing the wider services of the YMCA including our Community & Activity Village where the children use all of our facilities.

Through our network of peer support from other Managers within this service and from supportive Managers across the wider YMCA, you will feel supported, listened to, welcomed and most importantly, valued for the work you do. With hands‑on support from your Operations Director and Operations Manager who spend time in the homes, carve out dedicated time for your supervisions and are ready to support when you need it.

We want our homes to reflect the people that live and work in them equally and encourage you to create your home to be a reflection of you and your approach to leadership. At YMCA, we have all the people structures and policies in place but within a framework that allows for independence, autonomy and most importantly, passion to shine through.

We are looking for someone who’s natural enthusiasm and dedication to care for children beautifully dovetails to our desire to create a nurturing, safe and highly supportive homes for the children. If this sounds like you, please read on!

As a Registered Manager, your role will include a wide variety of tasks and you will thrive from the varied and challenging nature of this role:

• You will hold and maintain the Ofsted registration and manage the home in an "outstanding" way.
• You will ensure that the home is managed in a way which complies to the Children’s Homes Regulations (England) 2015 and creates a positive physical and emotional environment where children and young people can discover who they are and who they can become.
• Oversee the creation, audit and maintenance of clear and accurate Care Plans and Risk Assessments for each individual child within your care and any other associated documentation within the home.
• Work in conjunction with the Clinical team to ensure Clinical Safety Plans are maintained and adhered to at all times.
• Provide children with a high standard of personalised care; ensuring that children are included as fully as possible in decisions affecting their care.
• Lead the staff team to create a culture of warmth, nurture and care within the home environment.
• Act with compassion and understanding, motivating and rewarding your team when appropriate.
• Schedule the required staffing levels to ensure you have the optimum staff team on shift with a complementary mix of skills and expertise.
• Be responsible for safeguarding all of children in our Children’s Residential Services.
• Investigate any safeguarding concerns for the service area and to make informed, fair, and transparent decisions based on information obtained including the production of investigation reports with recommendations and outcomes.
• Support the children and young people through times of crisis and dysregulation, ensuring the safety of the child or young person is of paramount importance at all times.
• Work with the Operations Team to support the continual development of our service.

We know your number 1 priority will be the children in your care and your team who show up we every day – that’s why we ensure you have the support of our inhouse IT, HR, Recruitment, Marketing and Safeguarding departments to support you in every way. We want to ensure you can receive all the support you need to thrive – this can only mean positive outcomes for the children too.

You will have full autonomy and support from our Executive and Senior Leadership team in order to make the decisions you need to make to run an outstanding home.

As a passionate expert in children’s residential care, you will bring with you a wealth of experience in caring for children and young people who have had the most difficult starts…