Children’s Home Manager – Gateshead
Starling Recruitment are delighted to support an innovative and well respected national provider of children’s residential services recruit for a Registered Manager. This will be to run another brand new service for 4 children to add to their existing 3 homes in the region. This home will be in the Gateshead area and they are looking for a dedicated Manager who wishes to create a nurturing home for children who have experienced trauma.
This company offer a truly therapeutic approach and are committed to providing positive experiences for their young people to support their individual interests. The home itself is beautiful and is currently under refurbishment to a high standard. It’s set in a stunning rural location.
They are ideally looking for the new Registered Manager to be involved from the very start to develop the home from scratch with support from the experienced senior management team. The successful candidate will have full autonomy over the home and support from their psychology team and senior management team to ensure that they choose appropriate referrals for the home to complement the needs of the other children who will be living there.
Duties include:
- Staff management
- Building effective working relationships with other relevant professionals and families
- Care planning
- Full responsible for Ofsted requirements
- Adherence and implementing company policy and procedure
You will have
- Previous management experience within any residential childcare setting
- Ideally NVQ 5 or desire to work towards it
- Desire to create a stable, happy and nurturing home
- Central administration support
- Understanding of the various therapeutic approaches to childcare
In return you will receive a salary up to £48k per annum depending on experience. This organisation prides itself on its supportive culture for staff and you will receive regular supervision from the experienced senior management team as well as peer support.
This is a great opportunity to utilise your skills working with children to create an exceptional home and would suit an experienced Manager looking for a high quality provider who have the best interests of the children at heart.
Please apply or contact me for a private and confidential conversation, I’d love to discuss this with you!
Starling Recruitment is a Newcastle based, specialist recruitment company dedicated to placing Registered Managers across the North East. We cover North Yorkshire to Northumberland and have detailed geographical as well as sector knowledge and experience as we have placed into Health & Social Care positions in the region since 2001. This work continues with many clients and more to bring you an established client base of tried and tested organisations who adhere to the highest standards of care.
We pride ourselves on providing outstanding customer service to candidates to confidentially support your search for a new role and introduce you to relevant organisations in both Adult and Children’s Services. We adhere to the Recruitment & Employment confederation standards of practice to ensure we operate in an ethical way at all time. We act as an employment agency in relation to this role.
