Registered Manager

Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.

At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities. 

If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.

Brighter Future

Employee benefits (cheshireeast.gov.uk)

In this job you will

1. Lead and manage a team, ensuring that appropriate professional advice is given to enable high quality care to be provided for children in a safe and stable environment, carefully monitor staff members’ adherence to clear professional boundaries in relation to children in their care and ensure that staff receive good quality and timely support, supervision, performance management and appraisal in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

2. Develop and maintain a child centred and stimulating environment, in which children can receive high quality physical, emotional, social, and intellectual care through positive adult role models.

3. Allocate, prioritise, and monitor the work of the team, identify areas for improvement and development of individuals and the team and ensure that these are addressed through team and personal development plans and access to appropriate continuing professional development opportunities.

4. To safeguard and promote the welfare of resident children, encouraging appropriate behaviour and managing challenging behaviour both in the home and wider community. 

5. Work with partners and other agencies to ensure the co-ordination and delivery of integrated services to improve the outcomes and achievements of cared for children and young people

6. Maintain effective record keeping systems to provide reports as required including an annual plan and progress report on agreed goals and performance and monthly monitoring checks as required under the regulations and national minimum standards.

7. Lead on policy development, planning and implementation for the home, liaising with other professionals, third party agencies, listening to and involving children and young people, staff and parents/carers where possible to ensure that the service delivered reflects the needs of the cared for children and young people.

8. Take overall responsibility for managing delegated budgets and seek partnership funding to support individual care plans in accordance with departmental policies and procedures and ensure that resources are effectively deployed to provide the highest quality service for cared for children and young people.

9. Delegate to staff responsibility to keep computerised care plans, reports and assessments for each child/young person, which are regularly reviewed and produce achievable outcomes based on assessed need.

10. Respond to and ensure appropriate action is taken following internal and external inspections, audits, complaints, and investigations.

11. Represent the service and liaise with statutory bodies, key local bodies, inspection bodies, other professionals, children’s representatives, and parents/carers, this will involve chairing and participating in meetings to share information, develop services to ensure that children’s needs are being met.

12. Have a confident understanding, keep up to date and comply with, any legislation, statutory requirements, departmental policies and other regulations and procedures, in relation to Safeguarding, Health and Safety, Equal Opportunities, Data Protection ensuring that they are being adopted and adhered to, and ensure that staff are appropriately briefed and trained to enable them to do the same.

13. Oversee the recruitment, induction, development, and management of staff in accordance with departmental policies to ensure that staff perform to a high standard and maintain the required levels of competence and attendance.

14. Take responsibility for own professional development and participate in supervision, appraisal and training events as agreed.

The job holder may be required at any time to undertake any work up to and/or at a level consistent with existing responsibilities. These tasks may be at any location in Cheshire East, to ensure the effective deployment of labour, materials, transport and equipment to meet daily service requirements.

For more information contact Cheryl Wells via email - Cheryl.Wells@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.

For any technical enquiries please email sourcingteam@ecwip.co.uk 

Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.