Registered Manager, Childrens Home

Registered Manager, Childrens Home

Do you want to be at the forefront of practice and lead a new service within which you are able to model excellent needs-led support with children in care and care leavers? Are you passionate about getting it right by leading and supporting a staff team who champion innovative interventions alongside young people who are preparing to transition into the community and adulthood? Well, here is your opportunity to do so because we're looking for a manager to lead the service at one of our new children's homes in Gloucester which we're currently preparing to register with Ofsted.

We know that outcomes for care leavers are often poor and that preparation to enable them to fulfil their potential as adults, can fall short at times. We have therefore designed this provision within a large, detached Victorian house. This will allow us to address this recognised need for young people and enable us to help prepare them as early as possible, all within a stable and supportive environment. We have spared no expense in terms of the refurbishment of the building, which comprises a mix of traditional bedrooms (all en-suite) and self-contained semi-independent flats for up to 8 young people. The accommodation is of an exceptionally high standard as we want our young people to have the best start when supporting them in care and with their transition to independence.

Having successfully recruited to a number of key positions, and with preparation underway to develop a comprehensive induction, ongoing training and support package, we are making excellent headway in realising our vision to establish a diverse range of local children's homes. We are now ready to recruit to this key management position and are seeking applications from professionals who are passionate about leading this flagship service and ensuring our most vulnerable young people are supported to effectively manage this huge transition into adulthood.

To see more information regarding our plans to open new Children's homes, click here

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £52,265 - £56,050 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

Right child, right support, right time, every time

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

Gloucestershire Children's Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

'Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire's children's services significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families'.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

About us

In line with our needs-analysis we are opening children's homes which cater for a mix of age ranges (from 10 years upwards) and needs. These include homes caring for those who need a period of stability in a group care to enable them to move back to a family setting, to those for older children and young people, who need to be supported for a longer period in a children's home and supported into independence.

All our homes will offer a service to those children and young people for whom residential care is a placement of choice and assessed to be the most appropriate resource to enable them to fulfil their potential. We're committed to working with our statutory partners as part of a trauma-informed, integrated approach which focuses holistically on what needs to change in order to achieve timely permanence. Our health partners have actively invested in our vision.

About you

If you are an aspiring or experienced Registered Manager who is committed to improving outcomes and being at the forefront of this exciting service development, Gloucestershire would like to hear from you. We're particularly interested in hearing from established managers or deputies with leadership skills backed up by demonstrable outcomes regarding the children's homes you've been leading over the last 2+ years. We'd also be interested in hearing from qualified social workers who currently have line management responsibilities and are interested in broadening their experience and expertise from fieldwork into this regulated service, and for whom comprehensive support and training would be available.

There are lots of opportunities for you to join a workforce with great training and career development, supported by our highly regarded Social Work Academy. As part of this support, we have also appointed a dedicated Specialist Advanced Educator for Residential Care, whose focus is to support each of our children's homes to develop outstanding services for our children and young people.

As well as your experience of working in children's homes and/or aspirations to develop expertise within this area of regulated service provision, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Care (or nearing completion/able to begin the programme) or an equivalent qualification e.g. Degree in Social Work (or equivalent).
• evidence of continued professional development.
• a full driving licence and willingness to drive.
• DBS clearance