Registered Manager

Location Solihull
Job type Permanent
Salary £35k - 45k per year
Reference 220996

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Registered Manager to work full-time based in a Children’s home in Solihull.

The salary for this permanent Registered Manager job is up to £45,000.

Main Duties:

  • As the Registered Manager, you will be registered with Ofsted. It will be imperative that the home you are responsible for meets the children’s home regulations and the Ofsted Quality standards and that, as the manager, you ensure a high level of compliance against these standards. You will lead the whole staff team in ensuring a service that delivers exceptional care and support and that creates and delivers positive outcomes for young people. You will be required to carry out various duties within your role. The key responsibilities are detailed below, but there will be other duties consistent with the role that your line manager may request to undertake.
  • To be responsible to the Responsible Individual for the home's day-to-day duties and the residents' care and support.
  • Implement and follow the home’s operational policies and care practice standards.
  • To provide and ensure that care is within a warm and supportive atmosphere.
  • Support the team in ensuring that the admission of young people to the home is welcoming and reflects the expectations of the care plan.
  • To create and implement individual care plans so as to ensure the welfare of each individual resident.
  • To offer support and guidance to Serenity Specialist Care Limited employees.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • To ensure that colleagues are fully informed of recent developments at handovers and meetings.
  • To comply with relevant legislation and council policies and procedures.
  • Maintain standards of care and report any breaches in professional practice to the responsible individual.
  • To comply with health and safety policies and to report any incidents, accidents, risks or hazards to the Responsible Individual immediately.
  • To follow the children’s Home Regulations and standards.
  • Responsibility for organising staff rotas.
  • Ensuring that staff understand and are fully aware of the daily routines of the home.
  • To ensure that all staff act professionally.
  • To ensure all policies and procedures, as well as risk assessments, are always adhered to.
  • To ensure that all staff have written up any incident/accident forms or restraint forms as applicable and that such information is received within the agreed timescale.
  • To ensure that all staff read the Daily Logbook to check all messages at the beginning of work or at any point during the working day as required. e.g. following a day trip.
  • To immediately report any issues regarding Child Protection matters to the Responsible individual.
  • Work within organisational policy and procedure established in the home
  • To contribute to the on-call system as and when required in line with management rota
  • To ensure that all staff under their supervision undertake and complete training per their induction training schedule and Personal Development Plan.

Essential Criteria:

  • At least two years’ experience working (paid) with children and young people in a residential children’s home in a supervisory capacity.
  • Extensive experience in the management of staff members and shift leading within the Health and Social Care Sector.
  • Diploma level 3/4 in Residential care (children/young people) or equivalent qualification.
  • Willingness to work towards the level 5 diploma (children’s workforce)

Contact:

Harry Smy advertises this job; please click above to apply now if you are interested.

We welcome applications from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers, and others within a residential or supported living setting, as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we can only respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This played a significant role in Sanctuary Personnel's previous winning of ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards and is a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself disabled or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.