Residential Children's Home Manager – Rochdale Council
Fox Morris Group are working to recruit a Residential Children's Home Manager
To be responsible for the overall management of a children’s residential home and for the maintenance of high professional standards and practice. To ensure that resources are used and organised in ways which are consistent with council and service policies and procedures and with legal frameworks for children’s homes and looked after children.
To promote the health, education, safety, welfare and the positive social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of children and young people who are looked after. Ensuring tasks identified in the overall care plan for those young people are carried out.
To be an integral part of the management team within cared for children services and to promote multi-agency working to improve outcomes for cared for children.
Experience:
1. To ensure that service policies, practices and procedures are implemented and that the homes operate according to its statement of purpose and function.
2. To establish regular systems for formal supervision and for reflective supervision as part of the departments quality assurance frameworks.
3. To ensure that children and young people have up to date records that reflect the care and support they are afforded whilst living in the home, this should demonstrate consultation with young people and positive outcomes for identified areas of need.
4. To prepare for and to implement any requirements and recommendations following any inspection to the children’s home.
5. To support, participate and facilitate robust monitoring systems within the home including regulation 45 visits, regulation 46 reports, monthly monitoring systems and regular file audits in line with the department’s quality assurance framework.
6. Plan and monitor the team’s performance using management information systems data and reports and through regular direct observation of team members, social work and partnership practice.
IF YOU WISH TO APPLY PLEASE RESPOND FIRSTLY WITH AN UP TO DATE CV,
AVAILABILITY/ NOTICE PERIOD, THE ROLE YOU WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR & THE HOURLY RATE YOU REQUIRE.
We do not hold CV’s on file without first speaking