Position: Registered Children’s Home Manager
Hours: Full time
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000
Contract: 52 week, permanent
Location: Nottingham, Arnold
Are you a Deputy Children’s Home Manager looking for your next career move? Do you love helping children? Are you resilient, a team player and reliable? We are looking to appoint a Registered Manager, who will have the autonomy to make referral decisions and to use your ideas to create a fun, safe and nurturing home environment for children with Emotional, Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) challenges. Acorn Education and Care is part of a wider national company – Outcomes First Group and so the possibilities for career development, training and progression are endless for the right candidate.
We are looking for a creative, inspirational and open-minded Registered Manager to inspire and lead our family feel team. We would like someone who wants to get involved, have their ideas heard and who are confident being a parental figure, managing a team and safeguarding the Children within the home. You must have a keen interest in encouraging and inspiring even the most challenging of minds and behaviours and always share our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK, to be happy and make their way in the world.
Previous experience as a Deputy Manager or a Registered Manager, working with young people with a history of trauma and SEBD is required. The preferred candidate will already have, or be happy to work towards, your Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care.
About us
Our homes are two or three-bed, located in Nottingham. There is a cluster of 10 homes in Nottingham and therefore, each Manager has a peer group who works collaboratively to share ideas and learn from each other. The homes are large modern houses where the children have the opportunity to decorate and design their own rooms. The ideal candidate will provide consistency in supporting young people in their day-to-day lives, enhancing their life skills, creating fun, and engaging activities to do at the evenings and weekends and making sure, they are safe and secure in their surroundings.
The team within this home all work collaboratively to ensure the young people are supported and safeguarded, within and outside of their home.
The benefits of working for this home are:
- Intensive training including a two week induction and buddy system
- Autonomy to make referral decisions
- Performance and target related yearly bonus
- Enhanced DBS paid for
- Defined career pathways with support to achieve your goals
- Wellbeing activities every couple of weeks
- Access to a multidisciplinary team, including support from the Schools and Clinical team
- Meals on shift, made with the young people
- Access to shopping discounts, a wellbeing platform and a CPD online course account
- Make a real difference to children
- No day is the same so you will never be bored!
If this sounds like the role for you, please apply now. For additional information, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@ofgl.co.uk.
We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully Enhanced DBS.