Children's Home Manager

Location: Huddersfield

Salary: £50,000-£55,000 per annum

Schedule: Monday-Friday with flexibility

Details: 2-bed Children’s EBD home

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We are looking for an experienced and dynamic leader, someone who is tenacious and passionate with the ability to connect with those they meet and build meaningful and productive working relationships. We are passionate about promoting and encouraging independence and life skills for our children and young people, ensuring that their safety and well-being underpins every decision we make. There’s nothing more rewarding than helping someone believe in themselves, have the confidence to celebrate their own uniqueness and achieve success that is personal to them. You will have overall responsibility for the management, leadership and direction of our new 2-bed children’s home in Huddersfield.

Responsibilities

As the Registered Manager you will have full autonomy of your home, you’ll be integral to the smooth running of daily life within your home, enabling young people to thrive. You’ll inspire and lead your team to manage a warm and friendly home, that provides a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to achieve positive outcomes whilst also achieving compliance with the Children’s Homes Regulations and ensuring your home is always able to evidence a high standard of care and quality. You will be responsible for the organisation of work patterns, facilitation of training, and the accessing of appropriate services to support the childcare practices within your homes.

You will lead a team of colleagues and facilitate their professional development so that they not only provide high-quality care and support but are enabled to fulfil their own career potential too. You will be supported by our Responsible Individual and other managers in the recruitment of a compassionate and motivated team and help build a fantastic workplace culture where colleagues feel valued and rewarded for the work that they do. You will design, implement and monitor the care and education plans to meet the individual needs of our children and young people, ensuring that key life and independent skills are achieved in the enriching and positive environment we strive to create. Responsible for the organisation of work patterns, facilitation of training, and the accessing of appropriate services to support the childcare practices within your home.

The successful candidate will have:

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and management (Residential Childcare) or working towards this qualification.
• Have a minimum of 2 years experience of managing an Ofsted home that carries a rating of good or above.
• Have experience of working with children and young people with challenging behaviours.
• Full UK Driving license
• Excellent knowledge of current legislations The Children’s Homes England Regulations 2015, Quality Standards 2015, the Children’s Act 1989, Children Act 2004 alongside all other legislations that are relevant to residential children’s homes

Our benefits:

• 28 days holiday including bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• On-site parking
• Lots of opportunities to progress as the business has exciting growth plans over the next few years
• DBS-Paid
• Casual dress

For more information about this role call our recruitment team on 01603 542652 or email your CV to careers@affinitycarerecruitment.co.uk

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