Designer Recruitment are seeking a Registered Manager for a provider in Bedford to join a Residential Children's Home.

This is a permanent role offering £50,000 - £60,000 per annum for the right Registered Manager.

You will be part of a 2-bed home helping children with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.

As a Registered Manager of this Childrens home, you will be an integral part of the team that put the children and young people at the heart of everything they do. We are looking to recruit a highly skilled and experienced individual to join the team in opening and running the Childrens Home in Bedford.

Registered Manager duties:

• Have responsibility for the management of services, including staff management and supervision, care and placement planning, safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring quality and compliance.
• Ensure full implementation of statutory and organisational policies and procedures and provide feedback on the effectiveness of all policies and procedures.
• Compliance with legal and regulatory requirements such as provisions set out in the Childrens Homes Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, Childrens Act 1989, Data Protection Act 1998, Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018.
• Ensure that staff have the skills, experience and qualifications required to meet the needs of each child or young person placed in the home and provide continuity of care.
• To lead and manage the home in a way that is aspirational, inspiring both children and young people and the staff who work there.
• Produce monitoring reports, statistical data and evaluation as required and in keeping with organisational policies and procedures and within agreed deadlines.
• To ensure that the principles of equality and diversity are embedded in the culture of the home.
• To ensure that each child or young person has individual care and care planning which is tailored to their specific needs and requirements as laid out in their relevant plans.

Qualifications and Education

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young Peoples Services; or equivalent; or a preparedness to work towards the same.
• Full Driving Licence.
• 2 years experience working with children in the last 5 years
• Working with children, young people and their families.
• Policies and procedures pertaining to running a residential childrens home.
• Child protection, safeguarding children, impact of abuse and neglect, education and health needs of looked after children, equality and diversity and childrens rights.
• Care and placement planning, risk and review processes.
• Understanding of the education, health, social, emotional and psychological needs of looked after children and young people and how to ensure these needs are met.

Benefits:

• Casual Dress
• Generous annual leave package
• Paid sleep ins
• Employer Pension contribution
• 100% of training funded by employer (Inc diplomas Level 3,4 & 5)
• Competitive salary
• Free DBS check
• Career progression for all roles
• Team Building Events

Designer Recruitment are acting as the employment agency in relation to this vacancy.

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