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Job Category
Children Services | Support, Advice and Guidance
Location
United Kingdom
Salary
£55,000 - £60,000
Closing date
25/01/2021
Ref
0
Contract type
Permanent
Total hours per week
40
Description

At Homes2Inspire, we are passionate about what we do. As one of the country’s top Children’s Home providers, we strive for excellence in the care we provide, ensuring our children and young people are ready for the next stages of their lives.

We are currently provide a home to over 100 children across the country, and our teams of Support Workers, Senior Support Workers and Managers provide first-rate and meaningful care to each child giving them the support and guidance they deserve.   

We are recruiting for a Regional Operations Manager to manage a cluster of children’s homes in Northampton, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford, Long Buckby and Daventry. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent strategic, commercial, budgetary and quality assurance experience to support the growth of the business and achieve excellent outcomes for young people in our care with ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Ofsted outcomes.  

The roles and responsibilities for the successful candidate include:

  • Coaching, supporting and motivating cluster’s Registered Home Manager team to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery
  • Developing and delivering strategic plans to develop the Children’s Homes business within your cluster area in line with strategic plans for the broader business
  • Monitoring quality and managing performance of operational delivery in the Children’s Homes, ensuring that KPI, legislative and Children’s Homes regulations requirements are met
  • Managing the financial control of your cluster of Homes and matters relating to budgetary expenditure and income
  • Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with stakeholders
  • Maintaining registration as Responsible Individual for your allocated cluster of Children’s Homes in line with legislative and Regulations requirements
  • Emergency On call responsibility in line with a planned rota system

Our ideal candidate:

  • Wants to provide outstanding services to support children and young people
  • Demonstrates a full working knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations/Quality Standards
  • Can meet the requirements for registration as a Responsible Individual
  • Is willing and able to travel within the cluster region to meet business need

Employee benefits

  • Ongoing Continued Professional Training
  • Essential Car user allowance £5,880
  • Travel and Subsistence expenses
  • Non contractual bonus scheme
  • Employer Pension Contribution
  • Laptop and mobile phone

At Homes2Inspire you will join a welcoming, friendly and professional team, and you will be offered support, training and encouragement to help you to build and develop a successful career with us.

The closing date for applications is the 25 January 2021. Interviews will take place during the week commencing the 08 February 2021.

You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years.

You will be required to hold or apply for an enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) and complete a screening process in line with Safer Recruitment procedures and Children’s Home Regulations. You will also need to complete an Occupational Health online questionnaire.

Please refer to our online website for further information about our Company www.homes2inspire.co.uk

If you require further details regarding this role, please email careers@homes2inspire.co.uk and a member of the team will contact you.

Homes2Inspire as part of Shaw Trust is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are Disability Confident Leaders, support the guaranteed interview scheme and use of the government’s Access to Work scheme. Living our values we are keen to reflect the diversity of UK society at every level within our organisation. We welcome applications from all sections of the community including from people with lived-experience and/or knowledge of disability or social exclusion. If you have accessibility requirements and would like information in a different format, email: HRService.Centre@shaw-trust.org.uk to make alternative arrangements.