Job Title:
Residential Care Manager
A Residential Care Manager plays a vital role in ensuring the high standards of care and well-being of residents. The key responsibilities include:
* Ensuring all care practices comply with relevant childcare legislation, National Standards for Childrens Residential Centres, and best practice.
* Actively promoting, participating in, and ensuring the provision of high standards of physical care, hygiene, and safety for all children resident in the home.
* Managing the home to meet the expressed needs of individual children and promote positive outcomes for them.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
* Participating in pre-admission and admission processes to ensure the placement needs of the child are fully identified and individual care plans are in place.
* Developing, implementing, and monitoring individual care plans in accordance with agreed standards.
* Attending and contributing to planning meetings, statutory reviews, management team meetings, and other meetings as required.
* Representing the home in a positive fashion and acting as an advocate for the child and their family when necessary.
Key Responsibilities:
* Contributing to the development and maintenance of good working relationships with parents and other family members, social workers, teachers, doctors, and all other relevant professionals and agencies.
* Ensuring the young person's views and wishes are sought and acted upon where appropriate.
* Ensuring the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) model and Person Centred Planning (PCP) model are fully integrated within the home's care practices and monitoring their application.
* Providing monthly summary reports/weekly reports on children's placements to the Social Worker.
* Attending court and furnishing the court with updated court reports.
* Ensuring regular statistics are provided in updating the census held on young people.
* Carrying out regular audits of care standards and practices within the home and developing creative ways of engaging young people in this process.
Additional Requirements:
* Contribution to the development and implementation of governance systems within the company to ensure continuous improvement in the quality of service provided.
* Helping create and develop links between the home and the local community.
Staff Management and Leadership:
* Providing leadership and guidance to staff.
* Organizing and managing staff on a day-to-day basis to maintain 24-hour staff cover and consistent care.
* Assisting in the induction of new staff to acquire an understanding of their role and responsibilities.
* Providing professional supervision to staff and participating in staff appraisal in accordance with Ashdale Care policies and procedures.
* Ensuring effective communication within the staff team regarding operational practice.
* Assisting and supporting staff with the production of written reports.
Financial Responsibility:
* Assisting with budgetary control by verifying monthly returns, mileage sheets, and accounts for payment where required.
* Ensuring financial procedures related to children's allowances, pocket money, clothing, etc. are adhered to by staff within the home.
Resource Management:
* Creating a homely setting that children can identify with.
* Maintaining and promoting a safe environment that complies with health and safety and other legal requirements.
* Ensuring the outside of the building, grounds, equipment, vehicles are maintained in good condition.
Personal Qualities and Development:
* Promoting high standards of child care practice.
* Taking appropriate action to deal immediately with poor practice and reporting to the Operations Manager when aware of such practice in any circumstances.
* Continually developing own professional knowledge and skills by participating in supervision, attending courses, and study days.