Registered Manager - Emotional Well-being Assessment Home in Ilford

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you have a passion for supporting children and young people, and making a meaningful difference in their lives? We are offering an exciting opportunity for a dedicated and compassionate individual to become the Registered Manager of our new Emotional Wellbeing Assessment Home. This is a full-time, permanent position ideal for someone who thrives on challenge, leads with empathy, and is committed to creating a safe and nurturing environment. If you are hardworking, passionate, and ready to shape a service that truly matters, we would love to hear from you.

Location of the post: Hinckley, Leicestershire. Jarvis House, our beautiful new Emotional Well-being Assessment home in Hinckley supports children & young people aged between 8‑18 providing short term placements until their needs are fully appraised and understood. The service provides up to 3 service users at any one time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships and develop confidence, independence and social/emotional skills.

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Leading and managing a team of residential support workers, including coordinating staffing rotas to ensure consistent, high-quality care.
• Collaborating with the Local Authority to support effective matching and placement of young people.
• Creating a positive culture and ethos that meets the complex needs of the children and young people.
• Quality assuring transition plans to ensure they are ambitious and tailored to help children achieve their full potential.
• Facilitating regular team meetings to share information, support practice development, and elevate issues to the management team for resolution.
• Representing the service at formal meetings, including acting on behalf of the Children’s Services Manager when required.
• Participating in on-call duties, rota cover, and out-of-hours support as needed.
• Supporting the mobilisation of the home, including recruitment and onboarding of staff.

Essential Requirements

To be considered for this role, your application must demonstrate:

• A valid UK driver’s licence.
• A Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare.
• A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young People’s Services, or a willingness to work towards it.
• At least 3 years’ experience working with children (within the last 5 years), including a minimum of 1 year in a senior supervisory or management role within a residential setting.
• Strong knowledge and experience of OFSTED Regulations and Quality Standards for Children’s Homes, with the ability to drive the service towards an 'Outstanding' rating.
• Proven ability in safeguarding practices, including accurate recording and reporting to protect children and young people.

About the Service

Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity, is proud to be working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council on an innovative journey to deliver a range of children’s homes for the most vulnerable children and young people in the region. While this home will be your primary base, flexibility to travel across Leicestershire to support other homes may be required from time to time.

For more information about this role, please contact Kelly Walker - kelly.walker@barnardos.org.uk / 07734979136.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo’s values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo’s and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo’s pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo’s believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum after 3 years Barnardo’s service, 29 days per annum after 5 years Barnardo’s service and 30 days per annum after 7 years Barnardo’s service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata.

The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme.

A host of family-friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options.

Service-related sick pay from day 1.

Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo’s.

Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.

Death in service cover of 4× annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.

Cycle2work scheme.

Interest-free season ticket loans.

Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal.

20% discount at Barnardo’s stores.

Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.

Free access to round-the-clock employee assistance programme for advice and support.

Access to Barnardo’s Learning and Development offer.

*T&C's apply based on contract.

About Barnardo’s

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently under-represented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.