Residential Care Home Manager (Grade 12)

Job Description

Job Category: Management
Location: Powys County Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £19.47

£42 an hour all in costs.
Based in South Powys

Main Purpose of Post:
The Registered Manager will set the operational direction and oversee the effective running of the service provision to meet the statement of purpose and children and young people’s needs identified within care and support plans. Golwg y Bannau provides placements to meet the needs of children and young people with complex needs and learning disabilities.

Principal Responsibilities:

1. To manage the provision in order to ensure that the needs and outcomes for children and young people with disabilities and complex needs are achieved. To carry out such other duties, appropriate to the post, as may reasonably be required.

2. To oversee all aspects of the day to day running of the home. This will include ensuring staffing rotas are maintained and that adequate staffing levels are in place, taking account of staff sickness and annual leave commitments. To participate in rota working arrangements where applicable with overall responsibility for managing the rota system.

3. To lead on the recruitment, induction and training of staff to ensure that a sufficient number of suitably qualified, trained, skilled, competent and experienced staff are deployed to work within the Care Home.

4. To ensure staff are fully aware of the policies, practices and procedures of the children’s home and provide high quality supervision and training for all staff to enable ongoing learning and development.

5. To manage the Care Home’s budget with prudence and in keeping with Powys policies and procedures.

6. To ensure the Care Home operates in accordance with international and national best practice and in keeping with all relevant legislation and regulation including the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016. To keep up to date with new developments and legislation in childcare practice.

7. To manage the behaviour of individual and groups of children and young people appropriately and within the guidelines laid down by the Care Inspectorate Wales.

8. To ensure that all activities within the Home are carried out with due regard to health and safety requirements, undertaking risk assessments where appropriate and being responsible for the health, safety and welfare of all staff and young people.

9. To actively promote, participate in and ensure the provision of high standards of physical care, hygiene, safety, and welfare of all young people. To ensure the provision of a warm accepting environment within the home whereby the emotional, social, educational, cultural, and spiritual needs of individual young people can be achieved, and in which teamwork amongst staff flourishes.

Registrations, Qualifications &Training:
⦁ To be registered with CIW as a Home Registered Manager or willing to register within specified time scale.
⦁ Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care Services (Children and Young People’s Residential Management) Wales and Northern Island or a predecessor qualification laid down by Social Care Wales.
⦁ Proven commitment to ongoing professional development and training.
⦁ Additional qualification relating to Autism, learning disabilities or behavioural issues.

Knowledge:
⦁ Working knowledge of the current legislation, regulatory and policy framework relating to the registration and inspection of children’s homes in Wales. Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016.
⦁ Thorough knowledge and understanding of legislation and policy guiding the work of Children’s Services in Wales.
⦁ Social Services and Well-Being (Wales) Act 2014.
⦁ Knowledge and understanding of current national and local priorities relating to the development of Children’s Social Work Services.
⦁ Working knowledge of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
⦁ Knowledge and understanding of the key issues faced by children who need to be accommodated by the local authority.

Experience:
⦁ Extensive supervisory or managerial experience within residential children’s homes
⦁ Experience of involving children, young people and their parents in the planning, development and delivery of their own services.
⦁ Significant experience of working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
⦁ Experience of developing or improving services within a Children’s Services setting.