Overview
Registered Manager
Location: Residential House
Line managed by: Service Manager
Salary Scale: £40,815.81 – Unqualified Manager (holds QCF 3/4)
£47,586.00 – Registered Manager (experienced and holds QCF 5)
Hours of Work: 40 hours per week
Job Purpose
To manage the residential house effectively and efficiently, ensuring the effective delivery
of the main responsibilities and key result areas identified within the role of Residential
Manager. To participate in an on call rota to ensure effective management across
services on a 24/7 basis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
● Responsibility for ensuring and promoting the safeguarding of any young people
that you may come into contact with.
● Work in accordance with Spark of Genius North East vision and aims.
● Take overall responsibility for all staff, delegating effectively and appropriately.
● Ensure staff teams are supported and supervised on a 24/7 basis which should
include observation of practice across shifts.
● Manage and monitor staffing costs, staffing structures and rota’s, ensuring they
meet requirements of the children’s needs and are in line with allocated budgets.
● Ensure all staff are aware of their responsibilities in relation to adherence of
policies, both in the house, the organisation and those set out in the regulation of
care standards.
● Ensure the house is ready at all times, gaining and retaining good/excellent
grades across the board as identified during internal inspection procedures,
external inspection procedures (eg Ofsted) and other governing bodies.
● To maintain a sound knowledge of current Legislation and Guidelines including
NMS, Children’s Act 1989 Volume 5 Children’s Homes Regulations and
Guidance, incorporating into practice and ensure your staff team are working in
line with.
● Ensure all staff adhere to and work within the policies and procedures
established in the organisation and the house.
● To actively assist with the selection, recruitment and retention of staff to ensure a
safe, nurturing and positive environment.
● Develop and make known to staff a variety of intervention strategies regarding
behaviour management. In order that children can develop coping mechanisms
and changes in patterns of behaviour.
● Take a lead in ensuring meetings and reviews of children and staff are delivered
within required time scales.
● Ensure effective delivery of individual care planning requirements for children and
young people.
● Ensure that the high standards expected in the delivery of care are upheld, and
that the standing of the company is maintained.
● Ensure the home has sufficient and varied information which is accessible to all
regarding access to support agencies that will promote the health and well being
of children & young people in placement.
● Take the lead in ensuring an open culture is created, one in which children feel
that they can complain and that they are listened to.
● Ensure that the house functions in such a manner that staff, children understand,
recognise and celebrate the diversity of cultures and beliefs within the local and
wider community.
● Complete the administration of financial, payroll and staffing related matters in
the house within the prescribed time scales.
● Work in collaboration with Human Resources to manage all employee relations
within the home, in line with current employment legislation and Spark of Genius
policies and procedures.
● Work within the code of confidentiality and ensure that records in the house are
stored and held in a manner which is compliant with regulations.
● Undertake and participate in any required training programmes (including being
responsive to own personal development) which are relevant to the employment
of staff working in children services, paying particular regard to residential care
and the management role in line with National Minimum Standards.
● To complete Ofsted Induction Standards within 24 weeks of employment.
● A relevant qualification to meet the requirement of Reg 29 and 34 of the
Children’s home regulations (2015).To register for QCF 5 (of not already attained)
within the first six months of employment and complete relevant qualification
within a further 12 twelve months.
● To work towards completing TCI/Team T
Salary:
Location: Stockton-On-Tees, TS21 3JN
