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Registered Manager - Empower Fostering, Taunton
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Empower Family Group
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Other
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Yes
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Job Reference:
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13
Posted:
26.04.2025
Expiry Date:
10.06.2025
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Job Description:
Role: Registered Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours of Work: Full Time - 40 hours per week + On call rota
Salary: Up To £55,000 per annum - Dependent on experience, company car following completion of probationary period
Responsible for: Empower Fostering Limited
Empower Fostering has a new, exciting opportunity for a Registered Manager to join the team at our Head Office in West Monkton, Somerset! Due to continued expansion within Empower Fostering, we have an opportunity for the successful candidate to join a dedicated team of experienced Social Workers, ensuring we provide the highest quality of service to children and young people placed through the Independent Fostering Agency. A requirement of the role is also to support and develop other areas of service as the business requires.
The Registered Manager will also be responsible for:
* Ensuring compliance with all regulations and best practice guidelines and maintaining compliance with Ofsted in this regulated position.
* Growing the Independent Fostering Agency (IFA) through commercial performance and profitability via management and marketing strategies you develop.
* Managing all recruitment and development of staff.
* Ensuring all registration and legislative body records are accurate and up to date.
Brief Overview - Duties and Responsibilities:
* Maintaining the company’s successful Independent Fostering Agency, aiming to retain at minimum the good Ofsted rating achieved and proactively developing the service to achieve an outstanding rating, in accordance with relevant legislation, procedures, and policies.
* Ensuring the successful delivery of the service and demonstrating to Ofsted how you have considered the National Minimum Standards for fostering services and the Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations Volume 4: Fostering Services to inform your strategic plan and registration.
* Developing and delivering service delivery plans and contributing to business development and growth, aligning with the company’s ethos and vision. Supporting the development of policies and procedures to ensure high-quality, meaningful therapeutic fostering services.
* Developing staff and carer recruitment strategies and ensuring successful implementation to maintain retention.
* Overseeing the recruitment, assessment, approval, training, supervision, support, and review of foster carers.
Note: The full list of duties and responsibilities is available in the job description. This role is subject to the successful applicant passing an enhanced DBS check for child and adult workforce with barred list checks.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants must declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings that are not protected (not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 & 2023).
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