Registered Manager
General Duties: • Provide services, including supervision and management of the staff, planning for care and placement, safeguarding, communications, reporting, and quality and compliance monitoring. • Provide feedback on the effectiveness of statutory and organisational policies. • Ensure the home complies with legal and regulatory requirements, including the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards for Children’s Homes, Children Act 1989, Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, Data Protection Act 2018, and Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. • Develop constructive working relationships in the broader community to promote the overall outcomes for looked after children. • Provide continuity of care for each child placed in the home • Ensure staff have the skills, experience, and qualifications they need. • Lead and manage the home aspirational, inspiring both children and the staff. • Produce monitoring reports as required. • Ensure each child has individual care and care planning tailored to their specific needs and requirements outlined in their relevant plans. • Establish professional relationships with the team around the child, multi-agency partnerships, and, as appropriate, parents, families, and other stakeholders.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
SPECIFIC DUTIES:
Service Delivery:
• Ensure the home’s ethos is embedded in the service and that children are involved in running the home.
• Ensure the home meets the needs of children in line with legislation, policy, and best practice standards.
• Take responsibility for safeguarding children, risk, and service governance.
• Ensure children access services that meet their health, education, social, psychological, and emotional needs and well-being.
• Ensure the service and its programmes are planned and delivered to meet the needs of all children.
• Monitor appropriate outcomes and progress for children.
• Ensure a social inclusion focus is embedded within services.
• Take part in on-call arrangements if required.
People Management:
• Responsible for the regular reflective supervision of the staff team as required.
• Ensure staff have access to practice-based consultation.
• Manage reflective supervision of the staff team.
• Recruit staff safely.
• Coach and support the development of the staff team in line with their statutory training requirements and continuous professional development.
• Responsible for staffing structures and rotas and planning and prioritising key areas of work.
• Ensure staff are inducted and briefed on working with children’s care planning systems and any programmes for care.
• Ensure effective team building and promoting a constructive spirit of co-operation within staff teams
• Manage sickness absence in accordance with the organisation’s policies.
Quality and Service Development:
• Conduct quality monitoring and implement action plans.
• Ensure up-to-date risk assessments are in place to protect children and staff under organisational policies.
• Monitor quality of service provision, including people and environmental risk management.
• Manage responses to complaints according to organisational policy.
• Demonstrate home’s compliance with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Quality Standards for Children’s Homes, and the Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF).
• Ensure improvement of the home is promoted and maintained.
• Ensure the home is prepared for Ofsted inspections.
• Establish good working relationships with the home’s Ofsted inspector.
• Ensure the Review of Quality of Care (Regulation 45) is submitted to Ofsted twice yearly.
• Ensure an independent person carries out the monthly Regulation 44 visits.
Resource Management:
• Maintain the physical assets located at the home.
• Ensure the health and safety of the premises and furnishing of the home.
• Manage the home’s budget.
• Ensure ICT policies are adhered to by staff and children.
• Coordinate and monitor the administrative functions of the home.
Business Development:
• Lead on placements and contract management with the relevant commissioners.
• Ensure an annual development plan is reflected within the service business plans.
• Take the lead in delivering and developing services under any service agreement between external agencies and the organisation.
• Identify and manage growth opportunities.