The successful candidate will have operational oversight and management of a new bespoke Children’s Home, providing exceptional care and with a total commitment to supporting young people to return and live within their family networks, foster care or supported into independence.
This is a unique service that will also provide community outreach support to those young people identified as being on the ‘edge of care’, working intensively with young people and their families to sustain living arrangements within their family network.
As Registered Manager you will lead and manage a specialist multi-disciplinary team, based at the home, to ensure that young people receive the right support at the right time. You will inspire and motivate your team to deliver the very best child-focussed care and support, whilst ensuring that your regulatory responsibilities are met.
This will be a new service and a new team, so you will have the opportunity to shape, develop, build, and expand the service to become an innovative and sector leading service, achieving the best outcomes for young people.
Everything about what we do is grounded in our relationships with young people, their families and each other. As Registered Manager, you will create and maintain an ethos and philosophy which emphasises this with your compassion and resilience.
The successful individual will have;
Strong, resilient leadership experience who can deliver an exceptional standard of care in line with Children’s homes regulations.
A child centred and flexible approach which delivers a wide range of interventions to provide young people with support and help them to develop their skills to manage their emotional, behavioural, and physical needs.
You will strive to provide the best care with great role models within a stable home for young people to live and thrive in.
City of York Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We require the successful candidate to undertake an enhanced Criminal Record check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
As this role is public facing, applicants will need to demonstrate, at interview, their competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public, in spoken English to CEFR level C2: Can express him/herself spontaneously at length with a natural conversational flow, avoiding or backtracking around any difficulty so smoothly that the person with whom they are conversing is hardly aware of it.
The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.
For further information or an informal discussion please contact Michael Cavan (Head of Resources) at michael.cavan@york.gov.uk or on 07561 879641.
Closing date: Sunday 3 September 2023 at 12 midnight
Interview date: tbc