Registered Manager in Manchester

Full-time | 40 hours per week

Location: Levenshulme, Manchester, M19 2BW

£44,000 to £49,000 per year

Minimum of 28 days leave each year (including bank holidays)

Private Healthcare (with Vitality)

Pension scheme

Full clinical supervision both individually and as a team

Family friendly policies, including maternity, paternity and adoption leave

About the Role

Our client is seeking an experienced Registered Manager dedicated to delivering top-quality care. In this position, you will lead and manage the residential children's service, ensuring compliance with Children's Homes Regulations. Your responsibilities will include overseeing staff, organizing schedules, facilitating training, and accessing essential services to enhance childcare practices within the home.

Role Objectives:

• To undertake a Registered Manager role for our client's Children's Homes.
• To be responsible for the organisation, management and supervision of residential services for children.
• To be responsible for the team-based development of a high quality looked after children practice by ensuring that work is appropriately planned, critically evaluated and reviewed and that key performance indicators are met.
• To contribute to overall strategic planning and management of the service and to the development of high quality services.
• To lead the team ensuring that the functions of the service are carried out effectively and in accordance with the legislation, regulations, guidance standards and local procedures and priorities.
• To continually improve services in light of the service user views, performance data and stakeholder feedback.

Responsibilities:

Management of People

• To manage the team in line with Service policy, procedures and guidelines.
• To implement the client's Supervision Policy particularly as it relates to residential staff.
• Address issues concerning staff welfare in accordance with the policies for staff care.
• Comply with the Health and Safety Regulations.
• Ensure effective induction of new staff joining the residential team as per policy and residential home guidance.
• Ensure that the training and developmental needs of staff within the team are evaluated and actioned in accordance with the needs of the young people.
• Ensure that staffing practices of the team are in accordance with the policy e.g. In relation to casual/temporary employment.

Management of Finance and Resources

• Management of all budgets held by the residential home under span of control.
• Responsibility for budget monitoring and for the control of income and expenditure within approved levels.
• Manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and review functions are implemented where required and monitored and reviewed according to local procedures and priorities.
• Maintain effective workload monitoring within the Residential Home.
• Contribute to the development of unit costs for the Residential Homes activity.
• Participate in out of hours management cover as appropriate to the Residential Home.
• Management/Operation of the team according to best value principles.

Management of Quality and Performance

• Responsibility for ensuring that work is undertaken to meet agreed standards whilst always striving for excellent practice.
• Drive up quality of practice particularly in relation to risk assessments, record keeping and meeting of statutory timescales.
• Establish, sustain and develop a quality audit system within the Residential Service to ensure that the Team delivers services to the required standards and specifications.
• Contribute to the management of quality in the Residential Service.
• Manage the performance of the Residential Home, setting individual and team targets.
• Supervise Staff in accordance with the Supervision policy including the regular audit of practice and feedback to staff.
• Share learning about good practice and contribute to training and development activities to progress continuous professional development for all residential staff.

Data analysis

• Develop appropriate systems in conjunction with the directors for the collection of performance data and data analysis.
• Provision of reports using required formats for presentation and analysis of data.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the devising, implementing and evaluation of changes with the involvement of front line staff to continually improve services, systems and standards, in conjunction with the Directorial Team.

Qualifications

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Health and Social Care & Children and Young People Services or equivalent.
• Has experience working in partnership with key stakeholders including families, Social Workers, Ofsted, and other professionals.
• Has a minimum of 2 years childcare residential experience within the last 5 years.
• Has significant management experience within a Registered Manager role with proven outcomes in an Ofsted 'good/outstanding' home.

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