Job Title: Regional Operations Manager - Children's Homes (Somerset Cluster)
Location: Mobile around Somerset
Salary: £67,738.00 per annum
Holiday entitlement: 25 days plus 8 days Bank Holidays in lieu
Contract: Full time, permanent - 40 hours per week
The Right Candidate
We have an exciting opportunity for the right individual to manage a cluster of children’s homes in our Somerset cluster.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent strategic, commercial, budgetary and quality assurance experience to support the growth of the business and achieve excellent outcomes for young people in our care with ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Ofsted outcomes.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Coach, support and motivate the cluster’s Registered Home Managers team to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery.
- Develop and deliver strategic plans to develop the Children’s Homes business within your cluster area in line with strategic plans for the broader business.
- Monitor quality and manage performance of operational delivery in the Children’s Homes, ensuring that KPI, legislative and Children’s Homes regulations requirements are met.
- Develop and maintain customer and account management relationships promoting the Children’s Homes business with external stakeholders to maximise business opportunities.
- Maintain registration as Responsible Individual for your allocated cluster of Children’s Homes in line with legislative and Regulations requirements.
- Manage the financial control of your cluster of Homes and matters relating to budgetary expenditure and income enabling the preparation of efficient management of forecasts and budgetary parameters.
- Develop and produce operationally viable and cost-effective solutions to business development opportunities, delivering within bid timescales and in line with legislation and customer specifications.
- Take a lead role in mobilising new and acquired Children’s Homes within your cluster area to time and budget.
- Emergency on call responsibility in line with a planned rota system.
We Are Looking For Candidates Who
- Can demonstrate a full working knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations/Quality Standards – essential
- Able to meet the requirements for registration as a Responsible Individual – essential
- Willingness to travel around the Somerset area – essential
- Experience leading a residential service to Ofsted Outstanding outcome – essential
- QCF Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare – essential
- Experience as an Operations Manager – desirable
What We Can Offer You
- Ongoing continued professional training
- Essential car user allowance
- Travel and subsistence expenses
- Employer pension contribution
- Private health care scheme (family)
- ICT equipment including mobile phone
- Further benefits to be discussed on application
All successful candidates will be subject to a vetting process in line with safer recruitment requirements. This includes right to work checks, enhanced DBS check for children and adults workforce (H2I will cover the cost of this check) and satisfactory reference checks in line with safer recruitment requirements.
Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.
Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
