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Head of Residential Childcare Services

Head of Residential Childcare Services

Posted 13 March by St Elizabeth's Centre
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£64,531 per annum
Much Hadham , Hertfordshire
Permanent, full-time
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Posted by St Elizabeth's Centre
HEAD OF RESIDENTIAL CHILDCARE SERVICES

UP TO £64,531 PER ANNUM

LOCATION: MUCH HADHAM SG10 6EW

Do you have experience of leading and managing Residential Children’s Homes?

About the role

St Elizabeth’s is a unique organisation that specialises in providing high quality care and education to children and young people with Epilepsy and other complex medical conditions. We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Head of Residential Childcare Services to lead, develop and oversee seven children’s homes, ensuring the highest standard of bespoke care and support is provided for each young person. Over the next 12 months, we plan to register our seven homes individually with Ofsted and the post holder will play a pivotal role in leading on the registrations and ensuring its success. This role will not act as a Registered Manager for the services.

About you

This opportunity will allow you to use your existing knowledge and expertise in the management of Children’s Homes, to implement new ideas, support and develop our Registered Managers, ensure best practice and compliance with Ofsted regulations, whilst working alongside the Director of Children’s Health & Care and other senior leaders to ensure a safe and professional environment for our staff, children and young people.

You’ll be working in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams across St Elizabeth’s, so well developed interpersonal skills are essential. You will be someone that thinks outside the box; taking service expansion and admissions into consideration, alongside managing the day-today operations of the service. You will be creative and strategic in your approach allowing you to effectively bring the Children’s Services strategic plan to realisation.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

  • experience working with children with learning disabilities in a care setting
  • previous experience working as a Registered Manager (or similar)
  • experience in Ofsted inspections, compliance and regulations
  • a relevant degree or equivalent professional qualification in Residential Child Care or Health & Social Care (min Level 4 RMA)

This role will work 5 days out of 7 days, usually Monday to Friday but flexible to meet service needs.

Our Benefits

In addition to excellent staff training, our employees are also rewarded with various other benefits offered as part of your employment:

  • 27 days’ annual leave
  • Fully paid for DBS
  • Life Assurance
  • Eligible for discounts via “Blue Light Card”
  • Opportunity to pursue recognised qualifications of your own
  • Free on-site parking
  • High street retail/leisure discounts
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Recommend a friend payment of up to £500 (T&Cs apply)
  • Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to contributory pension scheme

How can you find out more?

All applications should be made on our website. All offers are conditional and subject to receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks and references including an enhanced DBS check. Please note we are not on a public transport route. Salary is dependent on the role, qualifications and experience.

Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis; therefore, we recommend that you apply sooner rather than later. We reserve the right to close this advert if we receive sufficient applications ahead of the deadline.

If you require reasonable adjustments at application or interview stage, please do let us know as soon as possible by contacting us via email.

Diversity, Equality and Inclusion

At St Elizabeth’s we embrace diversity and aspire to create a diverse and inclusive working culture. We are proud to be recognised as an Investor in People and to hold Disability Confident status. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming all applications from across the community.

Safeguarding

St Elizabeth’s Centre is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults and young people. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure through the Disclosure and Barring Service. Some of our positions involve regulated activity relevant to vulnerable children, adults and young people. It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group. Our vacancies are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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