Job Description
Registered Manager (Ofsted) - Childrens Home
Birmingham
Up to £55,000 basic, Ofsted bonus, Car Allowance Scheme, Health related Benefits
My client are recruitinmg for a Registered Manager with an OFSTED background to help shape a children’s home from the ground up and create a lasting impact on young lives. The Company are commited to ethical, high-quality care, ensuring every decision is made with integrity and the best interests of the children at heart.
- Leadership and Accountability: Lead our team to achieve great outcomes for our children, using performance data and evidence-based measures to drive continuous improvement.
- Home Management: Oversee all aspects of the home, ensuring innovative, responsive, and high-quality services tailored to each child's needs. Regularly review and assess these services to ensure they are outcome-driven.
- Team Motivation: Inspire, motivate, and manage a team of deputy managers and residential care staff, ensuring regulatory staffing levels and effective coverage at all times
- Professional Development: Provide regular supervision and performance reviews to create a motivated, skilled, and qualified workforce, compliant with all regulatory requirements.
- Safe Environment: Ensure a safe and positive environment by adhering to safeguarding, safer recruitment, and health and safety policies.
- Compliance: Maintain all legal and statutory records in line with regulatory requirements through effective systems and processes.
- Budget Management: Manage a delegated budget, ensuring effective and efficient expenditure in line with regulatory and financial requirements.
- Partnerships: Develop effective relationships and communication channels with colleagues, local authorities, partner agencies, and other external organisations, participating in multi-agency meetings as appropriate.
- Service Review: Work with the Responsible Individual to continuously improve service provision, drive innovation, and support business development.
- Adaptability: Operate effectively within a constantly changing environment, adjusting work priorities and targets as needed.
- Equality and Diversity: Promote the comapnies Equality and Diversity strategy, ensuring best practices and developing appropriate action plans.
- Policy Compliance: Adhere to and promote all Ofsted policies and procedures, aiming for the highest standards of safeguarding through a child-centered approach.
Key Skills Required:
- Significant experience of working within a Children’s Home.
- Demonstrable knowledge of and commitment to Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
- Previous experience and knowledge of the Ofsted Regulatory Framework for Children’s Homes would be useful
- Experience at a senior level within a social care/health field.
- Previous experience of setting up an Ofsted Registered Children’s Home would be useful
- Experience of managing budgets
- Ability to demonstrate reasoning, numeracy, literacy and technology skills to required standard.
- Ability to develop and encourage professional growth in others.
- An understanding of budgetary management.
- Demonstrate a sound working knowledge of Child Protection Issues and Procedures.
- Sound knowledge of Children’s Homes procedures and relevant issues.
- Ability to exercise authority.
- Proven leadership and management abilities.
- Excellent communication skills – both verbally and written.