Job Title: Regional Operations Manager - Children's Homes (Northamptonshire Cluster)
Location: Mobile around the Northamptonshire area
Salary: £62,494 per annum this increases to £73,857 per annum following successful completion of probation period
Holiday entitlement: 25 days plus 8 days Bank Holidays in lieu
Contract: Full time, permanent - 40 hours per week
Job Outline:
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 life.
We are currently housing over 100 children in over 40 homes across the country, where our team 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.
The Right Candidate
We have an exciting opportunity for the right individual to manage a cluster of children’s homes in our Northamptonshire region.
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:
- Coach, support and motivate the cluster’s Registered Home Managers team to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery.
- Develop and deliver strategic plans to develop the Children’s Homes business within your cluster area in line with strategic plans for the broader business.
- Monitor quality and manage performance of operational delivery in the Children’s Homes, ensuring that KPI, legislative and Children’s Homes regulations requirements are met.
- Develop and maintain customer and account management relationships promoting the Children’s Homes business with external stakeholders to maximise business opportunities
- Maintain registration as Responsible Individual for your allocated cluster of Children’s Homes in line with legislative and Regulations requirements
- Manage the financial control of your cluster of Homes and matters relating to budgetary expenditure and income enabling the preparation of efficient management of forecasts and budgetary parameters.
- Develop and produce operationally viable and cost effective solutions to business development opportunities, delivering within bid timescales and in line with legislation and customer specifications.
- Take a lead role in mobilising new and acquired Children’s Homes within your cluster area to time and budget
- Emergency On call responsibility in line with a planned rota system
We are looking for candidates who:
- Can demonstrate a full working knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations/Quality Standards - essential
- Able to meet the requirements for registration as a Responsible Individual - essential
- Willingness to travel around the Midlands area - essential
- Experience leading a residential service to Ofsted Outstanding outcome - essential
- QCF Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare - essential
- Experience as an Operations Manager - desirable
What We Can Offer You!
· Ongoing Continued Professional Training
· Essential Car user allowance
· Travel and Subsistence expenses
· Non contractual bonus scheme - up to an additional £10,000 per annum
· Employer Pension Contribution
· Private Health Care Scheme (Family)
· ICT equipment including mobile phone
· Further benefits to be discussed on application
If you are successful, you can be sure that you’ll find a welcoming, friendly and professional working environment and be given all the support, training and encouragement you need to build and develop a successful career with us.
You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years.
Please note:
All successful candidates will be subject to a vetting process in line with safer recruitment requirements. This includes right to work checks, Enhanced DBS Check for Children and Adults workforce (H2I will cover the cost of this check) and satisfactory reference checks in line with safer recruitment requirements.
Please note we are not currently able to support any visa sponsorship applications.
Join a diverse and inclusive organisation
Shaw Trust is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment, where every employee, regardless of their background or lived experience, feels that they belong and can progress in their career.
In our most recent colleague survey “86% of our colleagues say we demonstrate a true commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion”.
Shaw Trust reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.