Overview
To manage our children’s home providing care for young people with a mental health and associated learning disabilities and emotional & behavioural difficulties aged 10-17 years, with occupancies up to 8.
Responsibilities
* To provide leadership and management of the home maintaining 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.
* To manage the home to safeguard and promote the wellbeing of young people to meet Regulation.
* Manage the home’s staff team ensuring they have necessary skills and training.
* 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 increase and maintain occupancy levels that are appropriate with the business needs of the service and needs of the young people placed.
* 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 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 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 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.
* 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 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 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, setting clear targets for professional development.
* 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.
* To attend management meetings and meetings with the Directors as required.
* Monitor and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations, requirements, and procedures.
* To participate in staff training as required and contribute to the development and / or delivery of in-house training.
* To contribute to a positive working and living environment, maintaining professionalism, and cooperating 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 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 policies and procedures.
* Be accountable for your own standard of practice, maintain integrity, professionalism and objectivity.
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