Residential Childrens Home Manager inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED
SUN 12 JAN 2025
Opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of children in a supportive and inclusive environment.
Professional growth and career advancement within a rapidly expanding organisation.
Collaborative work with parents, guardians, and professionals, fostering strong relationships that benefit the children.
Leadership role that involves inspiring and managing staff to provide the best care for children and young people.
Access to continuous professional development and training opportunities to enhance skills and knowledge.
Engagement with the local community to promote positive outcomes for looked-after children and develop lasting connections.
On-Pos is seeking an ambitious Residential Children's Home Manager for their facility in Maghull, Liverpool, starting in 2025. This role involves leading and overseeing a residential home dedicated to providing a supportive, family-like environment for children, where they can develop friendships, interests, and essential life skills. The Manager will be responsible for strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, staff management, care planning, safeguarding, and continuous service improvement, while fostering constructive relationships within the community to enhance the well-being of looked-after children.
Candidates should possess a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care or an equivalent qualification, with at least three years of experience working with children and one year in a senior role. Strong interpersonal skills, an understanding of relevant regulations, and the ability to inspire and lead a team are essential. The position offers a competitive salary, a pension plan, and a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week, emphasizing the organisation's dedication to quality care and professional development.
Candidates should possess a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care or an equivalent qualification, with at least three years of experience working with children and one year in a senior role. Strong interpersonal skills, an understanding of relevant regulations, and the ability to inspire and lead a team are essential. The position offers a competitive salary, a pension plan, and a full-time commitment of 40 hours per week, emphasizing the organisation's dedication to quality care and professional development.
If you are an ambitious Residential Childrens Home Manager seeking a fulfilling new role for 2025, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career within a rapidly growing organisation.
Company Overview
An organisation committed to revolutionising children's homes, operating as a supportive family in a thriving community where children form lasting friendships, explore their interests and develop essential life skills. This inclusive environment promotes social connections and personal growth, with personalised care that recognises each child's individual strengths, challenges and aspirations. Collaborating closely with parents, guardians, and professionals, this approach ensures compassionate and specialized care, nurturing children to thrive and realise their fullest potential.
What will the role involve?
As the Residential Childrens Home Manager, you will lead and oversee the management of a residential home in Maghull. Your role will encompass strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, personnel management, resource oversight, and continuous service improvement.
Key Responsibilities
Competitive salary
Pension
Schedule: Full-time/40 hours per week
Location: L31/in person
Company Overview
An organisation committed to revolutionising children's homes, operating as a supportive family in a thriving community where children form lasting friendships, explore their interests and develop essential life skills. This inclusive environment promotes social connections and personal growth, with personalised care that recognises each child's individual strengths, challenges and aspirations. Collaborating closely with parents, guardians, and professionals, this approach ensures compassionate and specialized care, nurturing children to thrive and realise their fullest potential.
What will the role involve?
As the Residential Childrens Home Manager, you will lead and oversee the management of a residential home in Maghull. Your role will encompass strategic leadership, regulatory compliance, personnel management, resource oversight, and continuous service improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Have responsibility for the management of services, including staff management and supervision, care and placement planning, safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring quality and compliance
- Ensure full implementation of statutory and organisational policies and procedures and provide feedback on the effectiveness of all policies and procedures
- Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Childrens Homes Regulations and Quality Standards 2, Childrens Act 1989, Data Protection Act 1998, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2
- To be responsible for developing constructive working relationships within the wider community to promote the overall outcomes for looked after children
- Ensure that staff have the skills, experience and qualifications required to meet the needs of each child or young person placed in the home and provide continuity of care
- To lead and manage the home in a way that is aspirational, inspiring both children and young people and the staff who work there
- Produce monitoring reports, statistical data and evaluation as required and in keeping with organisational policies and procedures and within agreed deadline
- To ensure that the principles of equality and diversity are embedded in the culture of the home
- To ensure that each child or young person has individual care and care planning which is tailored to their specific needs and requirements as laid out in their relevant plans
- To maintain professional relationships with the team around the child, multi-agency partnerships and where appropriate parents, families and other stakeholders
- Service Delivery
- People Management
- Resource Management
- Business Development
- Quality and Service Development
- A minimum of Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young Peoples Services or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare or equivalent
- Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
- 3 years experience working with children in the last 5 years and at least 1 year at senior level
- Supervision or management experience
- Working with children, young people and their families
- Work in a residential setting
- Inter-agency work
- Childrens Home Regulations and Quality Standards 2, Single Social Care Inspection Framework (SSCIF), Children Act 1989, Children and Families Act 2, Care Standards Act 2000, Children Act 2004, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2, Health and Safety at work and associated guidance and regulation
- Policies and procedures pertaining to running a residential childrens home
- Child protection, safeguarding children, impact of abuse and neglect, education and health needs of looked after children, equality and diversity and childrens rights
- Care and placement planning, risk and review processes
- Understanding of the education, health, social, emotional and psychological needs of looked after children and young people and how to ensure these needs are met
- Ability to lead and inspire a staff team, take responsibility for staff team training and development, supervision, rosters ensuring continuity of care for each child or young person
- Able to manage stress and difficult dynamics and demonstrate emotional resilience
- Capable of performing a wide variety of administrative tasks consistent with the day-to-day management of a childrens home
- Prioritise and organise workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality, evaluating the quality of own and others work and raises any quality issues and related risks to the relevant person
- To be fit to manage a childrens home as outlined in the requirements for registration as a manger
- Ability to sustain and work through placement issues to prevent placement breakdowns
- Ability to monitor the service for quality of care and in line with the requirements of Ofsted inspection
- Ability to develop constructive working relationships with the wider community and multi-agency teams
- Promote equality and value diversity by interpreting equality, diversity and rights in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant standards
- Identify patterns of discrimination and take actions to overcome this and enable others to promote quality and diversity and a non-discriminatory culture that supports people in exercising their rights
Competitive salary
Pension
Schedule: Full-time/40 hours per week
Location: L31/in person
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