JOB SUMMARY
To manage one children’s home providing care for young people with a mental health and associated learning disabilities and emotional & behavioural difficulties aged 10-17 years.
8 Bed home Salary up to £72K plus bonuses. Must have experience of running a minimum of 5 bed home.
THE ROLE
To facilitate the achievement of excellent outcomes for young people following key principles of residential
child carein line with Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards April 2015, safeguarding
children according to Working Together to Safeguard Children A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard
and promote the welfare of children 2018 and provide robust management support which meets and goes
above and beyond of the Leadership and Management Standard.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- To provide leadership and management of the home.
- To maintain an in-depth knowledge of the National Minimum Standards, Every Child Matters,
Children’s Homes Regulations, the Children Act, Working Together to safeguard children and other
relevant legislation and guidance and company policy and procedure.
- To manage the home to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of young people to meet Regulation
- To recruit staff team following safer recruitment.
- Manage the home’s staff team ensuring they have necessary skills and training according to the SoP
of the home meeting the needs of the young people .
- To manage a quality service aiming to achieve and maintain a minimum ‘Good’ and aspire to achieve
‘Outstanding’ Ofsted rating.
- To represent the home to external agencies and ensure compliance with the statutory requirements
imposed by them and requirements of commissioners.
- To work with the wider management team to contribute to the planning and development of Care
Perspectives and to provide management support to other areas of the service needing this.
- To increase and maintain occupancy levels that both appropriate with the business needs of the
service and needs of the young people placed.
DUTIES
Leadership and Management of the home
- To understand the ethos and basic principles of the business.
- To be responsible for the overall day to day running of the home.
- To manage all practical operational issues, staff conflicts, Health & Safety matters, providing direct
support to the young people, ensure safe staffing level is maintained all the time.
- To fill the rota short fall when necessary, be part of on-call support system for their own home and for
the organisation, to be available for phone support and when required, call-out support.
- To work flexible hours if required to meet the needs of the service and young people, which may involve
working at short notice, sleeping-in duties, public holiday, and weekend working from time to time,
attendance on holidays.
- To manage time and resources within the home including managing financial expenditure against
budgets and ensuring recording is accurately completed.
- To be responsible for ensuring the home provides a positive physical environment, with regard to
design, comfort, and homeliness as well as hygiene and cleanliness.
- To ensure the home operates in compliance with the standards and regulations set out in the National
Minimum Standards for Children’s Homes and Children’s Homes regulations.
- To maintain budgetary occupancy level following safe and appropriate admission process.
- To ensure necessary and appropriate resources are available for young people in placement to be
safeguarded and achieve best outcomes.
Wellbeing of young people
- To contribute to the referral, assessment, and admission procedures, ensuring effective pre-placement
assessment of need (including risk assessment), placement planning, compatibility assessment and
ensure all relevant documents are obtained.
- To ensure financial agreement is in place to meet the goals of local authority care plan and meet risk
management needs.
- To ensure all young people have placement plans, risk assessments, behaviour support plans,
education arrangement plans, therapeutic support plans, in place before the placement starts.
- Ensure necessary review of all documents in timely manner.
- To ensure the promotion of education, physical health, and emotional well-being of the young people.
- Ensure provision is made to cater for young people’s social, leisure, cultural and religious needs.
- To facilitate psychological assessment of young people placed where appropriate and develop
therapeutic care plans based on content and recommendations.
- To operate an effective key worker system that ensures;
All young people are allocated keyworkers for ensuring that young people’s care needs are met,
placement plans implemented, and that keyworkers are provided with appropriate guidance and
support in fulfilling this role.
- To ensure a safe, nurturing, and welcoming environment is maintained that safeguards and promotes
the wellbeing of the young people.
- To ensure risk assessments are kept up-to-date and appropriate action taken to protect young people
from identified or assessed risk in line with relevant child protection procedures and working together
guidance.
- To maintain an environment that promotes positive acceptable behaviour by providing an appropriate
balance of structure, nurture, challenge, boundaries, and engagement.
- To develop and maintain effective working relationships with social services, family, and significant
others.
- Ensure events, appointments or meetings are arranged, effectively timetabled / diarised, and attended
by the young person and / or appropriate staff or yourself.
- Ensure high standard of reports are prepared and delivered in time.
- To ensure young people are aware of their rights in relation to having their views heard and in raising
complaint about the services and to ensure necessary support is available to enable young people to
follow organisation’s complaint process.
- To ensure robust investigation of complaints is carried out in consultation with professional involved, if
appropriate, in line with comapnies complaints procedure.
Managing staff
- To ensure adequacy of staff cover within the home ensuring rotas are appropriately maintained to meet
the identified needs of the young people within allocated resources.
- To work with our HR provider to identify staff requirements and process staff selection.
- To interview candidates and assist with the recruitment procedure.
- To ensure high retention of staff. This is to ensure high quality consistent care for young people.
- To ensure staff receive and are supported to complete their induction programme and certification
before they pass their probationary period.
- To provide supervision to all staff on a regular basis that meets the minimum requirements in relation
to frequency, duration and content as required by procedures. Where supervision
is delegated, to be responsible for ensuring that this meets required standards. Ensure that staff are
provided with both general as well as key-work focused supervision where this is applicable and that
both are appropriately recorded.
- To assess staff performance in the workplace and undertake probationary reviews meetings and
ongoing performance reviews and appraisals as required by the company.
- To identify need and set clear targets for the ongoing professional development of staff.
- To be involved in any investigation / disciplinary or capability processes involving members of your
staff.
- To ensure all staff are appropriately trained and qualified and that the home’s training file is kept up to
date.
- To ensure all personnel and supervision files are kept up-to-date and contain all required
documentation including those relating to vetting processes.
- To hold regular staff meetings to discuss the continuity of care for the young people, encourage
constructive feedback from staff , health and safety and any other concerns or issues arising.
- To ensure effective systems are in place for keeping staff up to date with information they need to
undertake their jobs effectively e.g. ensuring effective handovers are happening.
- Provide in-house training to individual staff or the team to meet identified need.
Quality Service
- To attend management meetings and meetings with the Directors as required and report on the service
and contribute towards the development of .
- To ensure managers’ monthly audits, weekly reports are completed and shared with the Responsible
Individual
- To ensure recommendations or requirements from Ofsted inspection reports and Regulation 44 reports
are promptly acted upon.
- To contribute to the developing and reviewing of policies and other company literature and ensure
implementation within the home.
- Monitor and review quality control systems and procedures including ensuring young people, family
and professionals receive regular quality of care ‘feedback forms’.
- To ensure organisation’s recording system Clear Care remains updated with management overview,
alerting RI to make necessary comments when necessary.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, requirements, and procedures.
- Monitor and ensure necessary and UpToDate recordings are maintained in line with statutory
requirement and the company procedure and practice.
- To participate in staff training as required and contribute to the development and / or delivery of in-
house training.
- To be available for regular supervision, be appropriately prepared for appraisal, implement agreed
actions and promptly undertake required work toward achieving set targets.
- To promote anti-oppressive practices and equality of opportunity in services which take account of
race, culture, religion, language, gender, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
- Any other duties commensurate with the post.
- To contribute to a positive working and living environment, maintaining professionalism, and co-
operating as part of a team.
- To take responsibility for your own training and development, to complete work set and to fully commit
to learning opportunities.
- To promote Children’s Rights and safeguard children and young people’s welfare.
- To adhere to Health and Safety legislation and policy.
- To promote Equal Opportunities for all, embracing diversity and challenging discrimination.
- Respect the cultural, religious, emotional, language, individual communication style and individual
gender identity and needs of young people.
- Be flexible with your approach in order to meet the needs of children and young people supported by
The company. This will include travel to and support at other services registered by the
organisation and in working times and patterns.
- To retain confidentiality at all times within the boundaries of GDPR and Safeguarding principles.
- To understand and follow all Care Perspectives Limited’s policies and procedures.
- Be accountable for your own standard of practice, maintain integrity, professionalism and objectivity .
SAFEGUARDING STATEMENT
The Company is fully committed to promoting the rights of young people and ensuring that their
welfare is safeguarded at all times.
Pay: £70,000.00-£72,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
Work Location: In person
