Registered Manager - Children's Home

As an experienced Registered Manager/Deputy Manager, you will be responsible for the full operational leadership of the home, ensuring it meets and enacts Ofsted requirements. You will play a central role in:

Assisting with the registration process with Ofsted and preparing the home for inspection(s).

Assisting with recruiting, developing, and inspiring a new staff team.

Embedding a therapeutic, childcentred culture from the outset.

Ensuring highquality care planning and safeguarding practice.

Managing budgets, resources, and operational and online systems.

Building strong relationships with local authorities, professionals, families, stakeholders, and the community.

Driving continuous improvement and maintaining high standards.

Changing

Futures North East is looking to employ a hardworking, reliable person who can

Lead, manage and operate a newly opened childrens home. They will be experienced in a range of

administrative skills and will have experience managing a team.

Changing

Futures NE wants someone who is able to adapt quickly, has a willingness to learn

and push themselves to do well.

We

consider a great candidate for this role would have patience to take the time

to understand the needs of the people accessing our services, be attentive and

able to quickly understand how we can help and be able to find solutions when

its not always obvious what people need.

We

want someone who is not afraid to be responsible for all aspects of management

of the home including the provision of high quality care and positive outcomes

for children in placement, staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget

and premises management in accordance with local and national standards and the

service procedures. They will have excellent communication skills both verbally

and written and have the tenacity to get the job done as quickly and

efficiently as possible. They will understand how to best avoid delays to

ensure the people using our services get the help they need when they need

it.

If

this sounds like you, you will join a Charity that helps children, young people

and families in Teesside. You will benefit from an organisation that values

its colleagues and recognises hard work. The role is varied, challenging and

rewarding.

Key Responsibility

To

be responsible for all aspects of management of the home including the

provision of high quality care and positive outcomes for children in placement,

staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget and premises management in

accordance with local and national standards and the service procedures.

Job

description

Make

a Real Difference from Day One

We

believe every young person deserves a safe, stable, and caring place to call

home, a place where they are supported, encouraged, and given the opportunity

to thrive.

We

are a Charity , with over 20 years experience in services for children and

young people, and our organisation has built a reputation for providing

high-quality care that truly puts young people at the heart of everything we

do. We are now preparing to open a brand-new childrens residential home,

thoughtfully designed to create a nurturing environment where young people can

feel safe, valued, and supported to build brighter futures. The home will

provide care and accommodation for Children and young people under the category

of EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) to either gender, with an age

range of 10 up to their 18th birthday.

We

are looking for an experienced Registered Manager, or an experienced

Deputy Manager wanting to step up, to lead this home from the very

beginning. This is a rare opportunity to shape a service from day one, building

a positive culture, developing a dedicated team, and creating a home where

young people feel a true sense of belonging.

The

Role

As

an experienced Registered Manager/Deputy Manager, you will be responsible for

the full operational leadership of the home, ensuring it meets and enacts

Ofsted requirements. You will play a central role in:

Assisting with the registration

process with Ofsted and preparing the home for inspection(s).

Assisting with recruiting,

developing, and inspiring a new staff team.

Embedding a therapeutic, childcentred

culture from the outset.

Ensuring highquality care planning

and safeguarding practice.

Managing budgets, resources, and

operational and online systems.

Building strong relationships with

local authorities, professionals, families, stakeholders, and the

community.

Driving continuous improvement and

maintaining high standards.

Other Duties1.1.

To model the organisations values and play a

role in raising the profile of these values and associated behaviours across

the organisation. This includes a positive contribution to workplace harmony

displaying cooperative team behaviour.1.2.

Increase ones professional competence and

skills in the relevant field of work through active participation in

developmental opportunities including supervision, professional development,

training and reviews.1.3.

Ensure provision of help that protects, respect

and promote the rights and responsibilities of children and other service users

and stakeholders 1.4.

Operate within ethical and professional

boundaries.1.5.

To maintain respectful, professional, and

supportive relations commensurate with the philosophy of the organisation;

model healthy ways of relating 1.6.

Work to policies and procedures and to

implement said policies and procedures.

It may be necessary to change these duties in

accordance with the needs of the job and the project. Existing duties may be changed,

and new duties may be added. Any changes will be made in consultation with you.

About Changing Futures North East

Changing

Futures North East is a vibrant and fast-growing Charity that is in the

privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children

and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 26 years,

we have grown from an estate-based youth club to a provider of children and

families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that

supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.

Changing

Futures has particular strengths and experience in

Pioneering

delivery of emotional wellbeing and mental health services pioneering mentalisation based

therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHPs, CWP and Counsellors

into the childrens emotional wellbeing system through two partnerships, as

well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and

children separately.

Supporting

care experienced young people

through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed

therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through

mentoring and befriending support

Reducing

parental conflict services

delivering mediation and groupwork programmes, and supporting statutory

agencies across England to embed a reducing parental conflict offer within

their systems

Experience

Personal Attributes

Skills

Qualifications

Knowledge