Registered Manager

Registered Manager (Temporary)

Salary: Up to £44,500 per annum plus £700 on Call allowance – Depending on experience and qualifications.

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract for 12 months - Full Time, 37 hours per week - Generally Monday to Friday with some flexibility to meet the needs of the service.

Why Action for Children?

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a dramatic difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

About the role

Summerfields is a six-bed residential home for Children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years old with complex additional needs. The home offers a place of laughter fun and new experiences where the young person can thrive, learn, and develop helping them to achieve a positive future.

As Registered Manger this is your opportunity to advance your career by creating a highly professional setting that provides a warm, nurturing home environment for the young people to live in.

You will lead, inspire, and motivate your team to hold the highest aspirations for the young people, you will liaise closely with Ofsted to ensure regulatory compliance and excellence, whilst creating a safe environment.’

You'll be responsible for creating and maintaining the culture across the service that seeks to support staff to provide high quality care towards transforming the young people’s lives.

You and your staff will work closely with the young people’s family, health, education, and social care partners, to provide them with high quality support.

We will also support you through the temporary registration for Ofsted and in your role we will provide you and your team with specialist training, and supervision.

About You

• You will bring substantial management experience in children's residential care, alongside a NVQ Level or Diploma level 5 in Leadership and management in Residential Childrens services qualification which the registered provider (Action for Children) considers to be equivalent to level 5 Diploma or a willingness to work towards the level 5 with completion to be within 2 years.
• Your track record will be demonstrated by Good or Outstanding OFSTED ratings for homes in which you've held leadership roles.

Interested? We'd love to hear from you – apply as soon as you can. Please see the attached job description for more information.

Good to know.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Contact: Sarah Manderfield or email us at [email protected] quoting reference 11564

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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