Registered Manager - Children's Contextual Safeguarding Home
- Employer
- Barnardos
- Location
- Leicestershire
- Salary
- £35,713.60 - £47,793.20
- Closing date
- 8 Nov 2024
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Function
- Youth work, Foster care / adoption, Housing support
- Sector
- Charity / Voluntary sector
Job Details
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children & young people and positively impacting their lives? We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and passionate individual to lead our new contextual safeguarding home as the Registered Manager, on a full-time permanent basis.
Location of the post: Hinkley, Leicestershire.
Service Overview: Barnardo's, the UK's largest Children's Charity are currently on an exciting and innovative Journey alongside Leicestershire County Council to deliver a range of Children's homes for the most vulnerable children & young people in Leicestershire.
Although a specific home will be your base location, you must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to support other homes should the need arise. Our homes are located in Hinckley, Coalville and Syston.
Hopes Place, our beautiful new home in Hinckley will support children & young people between 8-18 years facing risks around exploitation, by identifying and responding to harm and abuse posed to them outside of their home environment and understanding the importance of intervention. The service will provide up to 3 service users at any one-time opportunities to enjoy different experiences, establish friendships and develop confidence, independence and social/emotional skills.
Some of the responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:
- Managing a team of Residential workers and coordinating staffing rotas.
- Working together with the Local Authority to ensure effective matching and placement of young people.
- To create a culture and ethos where the complex needs of the individual young people and the group are met.
- Quality assure transition plans and to ensure that these are aspirational in terms of supporting the children to achieve.
- To ensure that the physical environment of the home always remains at a high standard.
- Hold team meetings in order to share information, practice development and share any arising issues with the management team for resolution.
- Attend a variety of formal meetings in order to represent the Service and/or on behalf of the Children's Services Manager.
- Contribute to service development.
- This role includes an expectation of on call, rota cover and out of hours working.
- Part of the role will be assist with the mobilisation of the home.
Essential requirements to evidence in your written application:
- Must hold a valid UK drivers' licence.
- Must hold a Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare.
- Must hold OR be willing to work towards the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young People's services.
- At least 3 years' experience working with children (within the last 5 years) and at least 1 year at Senior level supervision or management experience working with children/young people in a residential setting.
- Sound knowledge and experience of working with OFSTED Regulations and Quality Standards of Children's homes with the ability to support the service to achieve a rating of outstanding.
- Sound knowledge and experience of recording and reporting to enable safeguarding and protection of children & young people.
For more information about this role, please contact Daniel Antal – daniel.antal@barnardos.org.uk
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.
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Company
We’re here to help children, young people, and their families feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful – and have somewhere they can belong.
Here at Barnardo’s, we’re building a movement to change childhoods and change lives by helping children, young people and their families feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
We’ve been changing childhoods for over 150 years and we’re still here today. We currently support over 380,000 children and families through over 800 services across the UK to give them the chance at a brighter future.
Our work is diverse—whether it’s offering mental health support to children who have experienced abuse, working with families living in poverty or making children’s voices heard with decision-makers so we can improve the way the system works, we’re here for children, young people and families whatever they’ve been through.
At the moment, we’re focusing on helping people who are;
- Living in poverty
- at greater risk of poor health
- growing up in care, and care leavers
- at risk of sexual exploitation
- seeking sanctuary in the UK
- struggling with mental health and wellbeing
- families needing support to give their children the best possible life chances
- fostering and adoption
Why work with us?
By joining us, you’ll be part of a team that’s truly committed to changing the lives of young people. Whether you’re working on our retail stores, helping a young person take their first steps into employment or working hard to campaign to raise the next pound, your work will be helping build brighter futures.
We’d love to hear from you if you want to be part of making sure all children have somewhere they can belong, grow and thrive.
Our colleagues and volunteers are the beating heart of Barnardo’s. We want to continue to attract a diverse group of people from all communities of the UK who share our excitement, energy, and passion for achieving change for children.
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