Job Introduction
It is a great time to join our Children’s Residential Service. We have a vacancy currently for a Registered Manager at Cannock Resource Centre. In this role you’ll need to register with Ofsted. These homes provide short breaks for children and young people with Learning disabilities age 8-17 years.
As an ‘Outstanding’ provision, short breaks are provided on differing levels from overnight stays at weekends during term time, alongside outreach and day-care packages. A key philosophy of the service is strengthening families, the aim is providing high quality support which enhances young people’s social needs and experiences whilst working in partnership with families and agencies to keep families together through carefully planned provisions.
It’s also good to know that you’ll be part of a collection of homes which are rated either ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’. We know these ratings are down to the pride our teams take in the service they deliver so why not join them and be part of this fantastic team.
Main Responsibility
We currently have four registered children’s homes, comprising of:
- 2 mainstream homes which are multi-function ‘hubs’ offering edge of care and in care services for adolescents
- 2 homes providing specialist short break provisions for children and young people with disabilities.
- 1 newly appointed 3 bedded home providing medium to long term support for young people aged 11-17 years
As Registered Manager it will be your job to support the Residential Lead and lead a team of staff, multi-agency professionals, and other support staff. You will be accountable for ensuring overall service delivery with responsibility for ensuring the home meets with the requirements of the Children’s Homes Regulations and Quality Standards.
The Ideal Candidate
As a minimum, we’ll need you to have:
- Proven success as a Children’s Residential Home Manager
- Experience supporting children and young people with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties and disabilities.
- Great understanding of Children’s Home Regulations & Framework
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience working with partners across the sector
- Minimum Level 3 Health & Social Care Children & Young People (willing to work towards Level 5 if not yet achieved)
- You are required to be part of an on-call rota
- Depending on service need, may be required to provide cover for our other homes on occasions.
If you are experienced in children’s home management, passionate about supporting improved outcomes for adolescents, and are open and enthusiastic about establishing and implementing innovative practice, then we’d love to hear from you.
If you want to find out more about the role, please contact Residential Lead Justine Bishop on 07970889079
Or you can find out more information via our Children's Residential Services website.
The recruitment for this position is ongoing and so we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
About Staffordshire County Council
We are no ordinary county council:
Our Values:
The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.
Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:
We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.
We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.
Our benefits:
We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.
In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.
Our recruitment process:
As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities
As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.
