Team Manager (7274)

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Job Description

Permanent contract | full-time 37 hours per week | £48,610 to £52,594 per annum (Grade L) plus on-call payments | Stratton Strawless and Norwich

Residential Team Manager

Loki House and Easthills Short Break Home

To apply, please download an application form and attach it to your online application instead of your CV.

In Norfolk's Residential Service, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual who has a good understanding of Residential work with children to join us as a Home Manager for Loki House, emergency bed home or Easthills Short Breaks Home.

Loki house provides emergency and time limited, specialist care for young people (male and female) aged between 7-17 years, when either family, foster care, or other community-based placements are not possible or desirable at the time.

Easthills provides short breaks to adolescents supporting children, families and carers to improve relationships at home or be part of a bespoke intervention in partnership with our other services to help prevent children becoming looked after.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right person to lead a team of staff to provide high quality care for children and young people and to work collaboratively with others to ensure that young people receive the best possible service.

The successful candidate will be a good leader who has excellent interpersonal skills and can demonstrate their ability to lead, motivate staff and drive change. You will make sure that young people are at the centre of everything that happens in the home, will be an excellent problem solver, make sound judgements under pressure and respond effectively in a crisis.

You will need to have a background in residential care and be experienced in working with children. You will be required to hold relevant training in line with the role and you will be expected to undertake the requirements set out in the Ofsted Children's Homes Regulations.

This post is predominantly office hours, but candidates will need to be able to work flexibly when required to help manage the busy logistics of a children's home. You will be responsible for and will participate in the 'out of hours' rota for the home and will need to be able to occasionally work weekends, evenings and bank holidays, where necessary, which may involve sleeping in, depending on the needs of the service.

Duties will include the supervision, support, performance management of the staff team and the budget for the Home. As the Home Manager, you will lead on the ongoing development of the Home using feedback from young people and their families, other agencies, and by monitoring all aspects of the home, as required by the Children's Homes Regulations 2015.

You will ensure that legislation is met in all areas which includes your own registration with Ofsted as the Home Manager.

To apply, please download an application form and attach it to your online application instead of your CV.

For an informal discussion please call Michelle Mackney, Head of Service and Manager of the Crisis and Outreach Stream - 01362 693250 or 07450 660334

Before you apply, we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specificationto help you demonstrate you meet the criteria we are looking for.

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday entitlement with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time, part time, remote and hybrid working - dependent on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
  • 'Norfolk Rewards' our employee discount programme which helps you save money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)
  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants' pensions.
  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job.
  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension, new bikes and electric cars.

You can find information on our Terms and Conditions here.

Already a Norfolk County Council employee? please apply using your @norfolk.gov.uk or @nccal.ac.uk email.

Closing date for redeployees to receive priority consideration: 27 November 2024

Closing date: 04 December 2024

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We have miles of beautiful coastline and our unique Broads, thriving market towns and a city with a proud cultural heritage. Our economy is growing and driven by innovation in a number of sectors, including energy and food. We also have ambitious plans for new housing and a building programme for schools across Norfolk. Our county a great place to live, work and visit, and is an excellent environment for businesses to start, grow and innovate.

We are the main local authority for Norfolk providing services countywide to more than 850,000 Norfolk residents. We take the lead in critical policy areas, working with 84 elected Members responsible for the strategic local government services in the county.

We provide a high quality service through involving people who use our services to shape and comment on them and by promoting efficiency and innovation.

We work in partnership with local businesses, voluntary organisations and other local authorities such as District and Parish Councils to provide the people of Norfolk with excellent services.