Registered Manager

To be responsible for shaping and delivering the residential home’s Statement of Purpose and managing the team to achieve the same.

To provide high quality care services through day-to-day management and general administration. To manage statutory responsibilities that supports the needs of the residents and to be an advocate on their behalf, ensuring the approach adapted is that of a child friendly, supportive and therapeutic ethos. This will include the need to ensure appropriate standards of care and assessment for the children referred to the service, ensuring that care is both evidence based, and outcomes focused.

The registered manager will ensure that the home operates in an efficient and effective child centred manner.

Duties and responsibilities:

1. Maintain and develop awareness around regulatory standards of practice and conduct, ensuring compliance and understanding throughout the Residential Team.

2. Ensure adherence, awareness and understanding of The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and Children’s Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005.

3. To manage the house and ensure the efficient operation of the service in accordance with the relevant legislation, procedures, policies and the Statement of Purpose for the home.

4. To produce a development plan for the service that ensures the delivery of high quality, clinically informed practice.

5. To support staff to achieve the highest standards of care for the Children.

6. To co-ordinate and monitor casework and administrative functions of the home and evaluate standards of performance across the team.

7. To assist in the continual assessment of the needs of the children and to identify and prepare specific development plans to ensure the most appropriate service provision.

8. To contribute to a comprehensive staff training and development programme to enable the service to have available all necessary skills and levels of expertise to meet the needs of the children.

9. To contribute to the development of appropriate relationships with and between staff, children and other stakeholders.

10. Liaise with the various internal and external multi-disciplinary teams and commissioning authorities to ensure that the care needs of new and existing residents are met.

11. To chair meetings, reviews and discussions as necessary.

12. To ensure at all times that professional ethics and behaviour are demonstrated by all staff. Actively co-ordinate the service provision and be a focal point for support, advice and coaching to all staff within the Home.

13. To assist in the management, appraisal, supervision and support of all residential staff.

14. To organise duty rotas in order to ensure that the needs of the children are met at all times.

15. To be part of an On-Call system.

16. To ensure that the Organisations financial and administrative procedures are adhered to and to work within a set budget.

17. Ensure all medication processes within the home are conducted in line with legislation.

18. To work with other Managers to ensure that all staff work together and with others towards meeting the emotional and physical needs of the children and planning for positive outcomes.

19. Responsibility for safeguarding children and promoting individual rights, providing good quality care which is free from oppression and where differences are respected and valued.

20. To be accountable and take responsibility for liaising with regulatory organisations in relation to the way the home is managed.

21. Ensure that all necessary documentation required by regulators is completed to a high standard and be available for inspections, checks or interviews as requested.

22. Monitoring quality assurance compliance with internal and external monitoring arrangements.

23. To promote appropriate and therapeutic relationships between staff and children and their families, promoting the children and young people’s involvement and participation in the day-to-day life of the Home.

24. Maintain a clean and safe environment; ensure that the physical state of the building is maintained to a high standard and that all repair/maintenance problems are dealt with promptly.

25. To participate in a range of corporate and management activities as defined by the Children & Family Services Director.

26. Any other such duties as may be required from time to time by the Children & Family Services Director or their authorised representatives.

27. Ensure that safe working practices are employed by all staff at all times in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work legislation. Will co-operate with designated personnel exercising their responsibilities in relation to the Health and Safety at Work Act.

28. Participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of social care and professional social work posts. Ensure that ACCESS NI and NISCC induction standards and requirements of professional codes of conduct are met.

29. Form positive relationships within health care, psychological services and education institutions, leading, promoting and advocating for the educational need and rights of the child.

30. Ensure that participation in a range of therapeutic, social and recreational activities/opportunities for individual or groups of children is encouraged.

31. Ensure that all needs of the children are assessed and provided for, developing and maintaining effective working partnerships with any outside agencies.

32. Develop a shared planning approach in partnership with children, their families and other professionals involved in their care.

33. Ensure that all service user records are stored and held in a manner which is compliant with GDPR, RQIA and the organisations requirements and policy. Oversee collaborative working across agencies to ensure effective and appropriate partnership working.

34. Ensure that provisions available in the home are inclusive and that staff and children understand, recognise and celebrate the diversity of cultures and beliefs within the local and wider community.

35. Ensure that all safeguarding legislation, policies and procedures are adhered to and to ensure all identified safeguarding risks are acted upon immediately and the relevant action taken to mitigate the risk to the child concerned and others.

Governance and reporting responsibility

• Liaise with relevant statutory, voluntary and independent sector organisations

• Maintain clear records of work undertaken and ensure paperwork management is efficient throughout the team.

• Participate and support the supervision process throughout the organisation.

• Contribute to the needs assessment and service development

• Ensure that all necessary documentation required by regulators is completed to a high standard and be available for inspections, checks or interviews as requested. Monitoring quality assurance compliance with internal and external monitoring arrangements.

• All employees are legally responsible for all records held, created or used as part of their business, including patient/client, corporate and administrative records whether paper based or electronic and also including e-mails. All such records are public records and are accessible to the general public, with limited exceptions, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Environment Regulations 2004, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Employees are required to be conversant and to comply with the policies on Information Governance including for example the ICT Security Policy, Data Protection Policy and Records Management Policy and to seek advice if in doubt.

This job description is not intended to be a complete list of duties and responsibilities but indicates some of the main areas attached to the post.

This job description may be amended from time to time, to take account of changing trends in social care relevant legislation, together with Employment Law.

• Company pension

• Free parking

• Health & wellbeing programme

• On-site parking