We are excited to be recruiting for a new children’s home in Bedfordshire! This 4 bed, mixed gender home is set to open soon and will be specializing in EBD for young people ages 8-18 years. The new Registered Manager will get to have a hand in recruiting staff for the home and policy writing.

The successful candidate will be working 40 hrs a week full time, reporting directly to the responsible Individual. 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To manage the allocated Children residential home maintaining an efficient strategy within the service that is according to all current legislation, procedures, policies and within the statement of purpose for the home.
• Undertake training and development to keep current with the law, best practices and apply this knowledge to the management of the home.
• Ensure that all the clinical processes and medication is in line with legislation.
• To be directly responsible for the safeguarding of children and workforce within the home, promoting children’s right and ensuring a good quality of care has been provided at all times.
• To be accountable to Ofsted and liaising with regulatory organisations ensuring the home is being efficiently managed.
• Ensuring that all the necessary documentation required by regulators is completed to a high standard and is available at any time for Ofsted inspections.
• To support the home’s workforce in providing high quality care to all the children who reside within the home.
• To produce a development plan for the home and the service that will be provided to children, evaluating standard of performance and scrutinising to apply improvements that can be work towards.
• To contribute positively to the development of relationship with external professionals and agencies.
• To chair all necessary meetings, reviews and discussions as necessary and represent the company/service within a positive manner.
• To complete a monthly basis rota that ensures that all the children’s needs have been met.
• Maintain a safe, clean and hygienic homely environment which is in accordance with Health and Safety legislation at all times. To act as a lead for infection prevention and control. To ensure that any repairs are reported the maintenance team promptly.
• To have competed (or working towards completing) Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care, Children and Young People’s services or the equivalent.
• To demonstrate a robust knowledge of child protection issues and procedures, to have significant knowledge within; legislation relevant to this sector, the children’s home regulations 2015 including Quality Standards, SCIFF, Children’s Act.