Job Overview

Premier Care Management (PCM) is looking for an outstanding registered children's home manager who is passionate about providing children with high-quality, safe and effective care.

The role will at first involve working closely with the Responsible Individual (RI) to register our first four-bedroom children's home situated in a beautiful location between Bath and Bristol. Once registered, you will have responsibility for managing a four-bedroom home, ensuring the highest possible standards of child-focused care are maintained.

PCM place a great emphasis on values of respect, compassion, and integrity. We want the best for children in our care, and you will be expected to share this commitment.

This is a genuinely exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who is dedicated to securing the best possible outcomes for vulnerable children.

ABOUT US

PCM are an established provider of supported accommodation in and around Bristol. We have cemented an excellent reputation for delivering high-quality support for care leavers, and now we are ready to embrace a new chapter through the establishment of our first children's home.

We put people first and everything we do is fundamentally rooted in putting children and young people at the heart of our approach. This is achieved by ensuring that our people are valued and recognised as being central to securing the best possible outcomes for children.

PCM are passionate about what we do and committed to delivering exceptional care. Our model embraces measures of established good practice, with a clear scope for innovation and creativity.

We want our children's home to offer a sense of warmth and stability, where children benefit from core values of mutual respect and good parenting. This will be underpinned by promoting positivity about the future and enabling all children to experience belonging through the active promotion of choice, rights, and personal fulfilment. This will be augmented through an unequivocal commitment to promoting the welfare of children in our care.

ABOUT YOU

You will be responsible for overseeing the home's care and operations, from the day-to-day management to strategic planning. We're looking for someone with at least two years of experience in managing children's homes, ideally with a relevant Level 5 qualification in leadership and management.

You will be able to balance effective skills of leadership and management with a practical and solution-focused approach to offering the best possible care for each child living in the home.

PCM actively promote psychologically safe working environments and you will be required to ensure that adults working in the home promote openness and transparency in practice. We place a huge emphasis on the importance of professional and personal integrity, augmented by a firm belief in the value of promoting a clear duty of candour.

This is an important role, and you will be responsible for a range of duties as summarised below:

• To implement and work as per company policies and procedures, as well as within the scope of provision outlined in the home's Statement of Purpose.
• To lead and manage a team to deliver excellence, with the needs and requirements of children as central to everything that happens in the home.
• To work closely with the RI and PCM's senior management team.
• To maintain established monitoring and quality assurance processes, taking account of any learning and driving excellence.
• To carry out and oversee routine meetings, supervisions, and probationary reviews.
• To oversee the rota to ensure that it is administered safely and effectively.
• To ensure that every colleague has the knowledge, skills, and ability to maintain safe and effective care.
• To take a lead role in safeguarding children, as the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for the home.
• To work in partnership with other professionals to achieve optimum outcomes for children in our care.
• To ensure that rigorous matching and impact assessments are applied to all potentially suitable referrals, which includes full regard to how the knowledge and skills of the team can meet the needs of children considered for placement.
• To ensure that legislative and regulatory conditions of practice are fully maintained without compromise.
• To act as an appropriate role model for everyone in the home, leading by example and providing advice, direction, and guidance to colleagues to ensure that practice expectations are consistently met.
• To lead on the effective delivery of our therapeutic model, working operationally and strategically with colleagues and relevant health practitioners.
• To have responsibility for managing the children's home budget in collaboration with the finance team.
• To develop systems in which children are actively consulted about the quality of care they receive, whilst seeking opportunities to enhance their experiences of living in their home.
• Working in partnership with parents, carers, and other professionals to safeguard the welfare of children.

You must have:

• A proven track record of successfully working in a management capacity within a children's home setting for at least two years (within the last five years).
• Experience working with children who present with moderate Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs, particularly those who have engaged in self-harming behaviours and suicidal ideation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A solid understanding of the Children's Homes Regulations 2015, Children's Act 1989, and Care Standards Act 2000, as well as Ofsted's Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF).
• A firm knowledge of related guidance, such as Working Together to Safeguard Children for example.
• A Certified Diploma Level 5 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent, or a willingness to work towards completing the "Level 5."
• A willingness to embrace innovation and creativity that will support our commitment to becoming an outstanding provider of high-quality care.
• An ability to work flexibly and maintain a healthy work/life balance.
• The right to work in the UK.
• Full UK Manual Driving Licence.

BENEFITS:

• Highly competitive salary
• Car salary sacrifice scheme
• Company pension
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Comprehensive employee benefits scheme
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Enviable opportunities for professional development
• Well-being and mental health support

IMPORTANT

PCM are an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified candidates. All colleagues are expected to promote equality in the workplace. We value diversity and celebrate diversity and therefore welcome applications from all backgrounds including from the LGBT+ community, genders, ages, disabilities, faiths/beliefs and candidates from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and PCM expects every colleague to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check, and we will scrutinise all available information to ensure your suitability to work with vulnerable children. You should note that this post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

If you're passionate about delivering high-quality care and if believe you have what it takes to become our Registered Manager, please apply by completing an application form and/or requesting a recruitment pack. We are genuinely excited to hear from you.