Responsibilities and Key Roles for the Registered Children's Home Manager
£circa 55k
- To ensure the base home provides and maintains the highest levels of care and service in accordance with the company’s mission, vision, policies and procedures.
- To provide professional support, training, guidance, and supervision to residential staff, within the home.
- To support the team to ensure person-centred care plans are established, renewed, maintained, and implemented for each child or young person.
- To support the team to manage effectively and efficiently all allocated resources of the home, financially.
- To support the plan of the daily and weekly management of the home. Supporting and ensuring that the shift leaders and Home Managers carry out their duties and responsibilities.
- To work with professional colleagues to ensure each child or young person’s best interests are identified and plans established to meet them.
- To work with the Responsible Individual to implement, create and monitor a framework of care systems to enable the above.
- To devise and deliver a home rota and ensure that the requirements are met, in respect of the allocation of staff and needs of the children placed.
Main Relationships to manage
To form, develop and maintain professional relationships with:
- Children and young people looked after at your base home and homes within your responsible locality area
- Families
- Team members
- Other professionals working with looked after young people
- Child, young person’s advocate or representative
- Ofsted
Key Responsibilities:
Managing service delivery
- To fulfil the role of the Registered Manager as defined within the Care Standards Act, this may include travel within the UK.
- To deliver on the content of the Certificate of Registration and the Statement of Purpose for the establishment.
- To protect children and young people from risks to their health, welfare and normal development, both inside and outside the Home.
- Ensure the home environment is appropriate and sensitive to the needs of the children and young people being looked after and complies with the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and quality standards.
- To use the residential experience to support social learning for children and young people. That the procedural paperwork is recorded effectively and evidence in a child-friendly way.
- To actively promote the involvement of all children and counter isolation of individuals by others.
- To ensure critical stages in the stay of children and young people, such as admission and discharge, are appropriately managed and reflect decisions recorded in care plans.
- To ensure that children facing crisis and stresses are offered appropriate additional support and staff are supported in dealing with the most complex cases.
- To participate in developing, implementing and monitoring individual children's care plans.
- To develop and maintain good working relationships with parents and other family members, social workers, school staff and other professionals concerned for the children's needs, such as general practitioners or psychologists.
- To ensure that specific needs are met, such as dietary requirements, religious observance and culturally significant activities.
- Encourage and support children and young people to take responsibility for their lives commensurate with their age and ability.
- To ensure compliance with the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 and quality standards.
- To input and cascade the internal systems that support the development of the Home,
- To actively be involved in selecting and recruiting your required staffing needs. It ensures that you follow a system of choice, attend interviews, and complete the HR file per the recruitment procedure.
- To provide leadership, guidance, and management to staff within the Home.
- To provide the correct payroll information, using the easy log recording system and to monitor absence management and lateness process effectively, supporting a return to work arrangement for staff and monitoring their welfare within the absence/lateness procedure.
- Ensure that staff receive regular supervision and the discussion formatting process is meaningfully evidenced.
- Ensure that there is a training plan for the Home, including induction and ongoing training compliant with the Care Standards Act. Including ensuring that staff are enrolled on the preferred providers training platform of Think Tank Academy, and this is detailed in supervision and alongside appraisals.
- To ensure and support the need for staff to gain the required qualifications for the role, in regularly having management oversight and clear expectations of the individual's training needs and sign up to the systems and expectations in place.
- To create a positive and supportive culture within the staff team. Including organising team building events once every six months and being creative in recognising staff praise, including sending birthday cards to individuals.
- To participate in the on-call system.
- To promote QCF training.
- A brilliant opportunity to join a company where standards are excellent and the care provided is unrivalled.
- helen@jaycorec.co.uk 01916914200