Senior Residential Childcare Worker

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Cheshire East is dedicated to creating positive and measurable outcomes for every child in our care. We are at the start of an exciting journey to provide in house, specialist residential care, for our children who have experienced trauma in their early lives and need a safe, stable and nurturing home to thrive.

The Vacancy

We are currently seeking to recruit a number of Residential Seniors who have the drive, determination, experience and tenacity to come on this exciting journey with us. We have a number of homes we are planning to open within the next 12months and therefore this is an opportunity to work alongside and be a part of the leadership team to shape the future of Cheshire East's residential provision.

Extensive support will be offered from the Registered Manager who will have experience of running Children's Homes, alongside your peers as Seniors in the home and the Responsible Individual.

The role of a Senior will involve supporting the Registered Homes Manager and other Seniors to ensure we meet the Statement of Purpose, with particular emphasis on providing a person-centred therapeutic service, through delivering and improving all operational aspects of the home and developing a skilled and effective team.

This role requires a completer-finisher who has strong, aspirational leadership skills to develop and manage the team, ensuring all paperwork is fully and accurately completed, and that the home itself is well presented and compliant with all regulations.

This role will involve shift work alongside some administration days. The role requires you to lead shifts and ensure the team are all adhering to the Children's Homes Regulations. You will be pivotal in supporting Ofsted Inspections and all audits within the home.

The Core Responsibilities will be:

• Ensuring the Statement of Purpose is adhered to.
• Work as part of the leadership team, to ensure the highest standards of care possible, ensuring that children's wishes, views and feelings are supported.
• To ensure that the council's policies and procedures are adhered to and that resources are managed effectively.
• Shift leadership.
• To develop systems with the RM for the efficient administration of the home and to ensure that the fabric of the home, equipment, appliances, and grounds are maintained to the highest order in accordance with Health and Safety requirements.
• Promote professional development of staff, carry out staff supervisions and assist in the assessment of training needs.
• Preparing reports and attend a range of professional meetings.
• Overseeing the day-to-day running of the home including leading the team on shift, acting up in absence of the Registered Manager in collaboration with the other 2 seniors.
• Ensuring staff rotas are covered and up to date and meet the needs of the home.
• Responsibility for daily budgeting and working within budgetary guidelines.
• Any other duties as may be necessary.

• Deliver excellence, ensuring the home meets regulated requirements and achieves great reports at inspections.

About you :

• You will be a positive and 'can do' individual who has experience in leading a team within Residential Children's Homes, with ideally a minimum of one year's leadership experience.
• Our ideal candidate has an appetite and proven ability to contribute to positive and exceptional achieved outcomes; a very capable person with proven ability in managing staff, operations, and most importantly putting the welfare and happiness of our children at the forefront of everything we do.
• You will be familiar with working with young people in a residential setting who have suffered trauma, experience of working with exploitation would be extremely beneficial for this role.
• You will have a proven experience of working in Children's homes and have the ability to lead shifts and work with the Registered Manager to achieve outstanding outcomes for young people.
• You will also have a strong focus on values, outcomes for children and excellence supported by the Local Authority who will also take a personal interest in your performance, development and your wellbeing. Your success will be the empowerment of the children, and the achievements of our services.
• The skills and ability to work with complex and vulnerable young people whilst being able to lead the home on a daily basis will be paramount. As a Senior you will be able to work on shift and support the development of staff whilst being able to support the Home Manager ensure the Statement of Purpose is fulfilled and the home is operating within its means.

Essential Qualifications and experience:

• L3 Diploma in Children and Young People Workforce (required) or relevant degree e.g. in Social Work
• Leadership experience
• Up to date training record
• Relevant experience of working in successful Ofsted registered EBD children's homes with good or outstanding ratings
• Excellent I.T skills, including report writing
• Excellent knowledge of the Children's Home (England) Regulations 2015 and the Quality Standards within it

Desirable Qualifications and Experience:

• Working towards Level 5
• Experience of PACE model
• Team Teach trained

Cheshire East Council is committed to supporting people with disabilities and will make reasonable adjustments to these requirements where this enables a disabled person to do the job effectively.

You will also be trusted to perform your role with autonomy befitting of your experience.

We look forward to your application and partnering you in this exciting new stage of your career.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and expect all employees and volunteers to share this ethos. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check along with positive reference checks. A full driving licence is essential.

Benefits:

• A guaranteed pension
• Option to take a tax-free lump sum when you retire
• Choice to increase your pension by up to £5,000 per annum
• To retire voluntarily at age 55 with reduced benefits
• Immediate benefits at any age if you have to retire due to ill health
• Death in service lump sum of three years actual pay
• Survivors pensions payable for spouse, partner, cohabiting partners and eligible children
• Sick Pay
• Maternity/Adoption Pay
• Extensive training opportunities
• On-site parking
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexitime
• Apprenticeship

HOW TO APPLY
To apply for the role please click apply for this job at the bottom of the page, or, for or an informal chat about the role please contact Anthony.Small@cheshireeast.gov.uk