Registered Manager

Registered Manager
Salary: Up to 49400 per annum
Location: Gateshead Tyne & Wear
Contract/Hours: Permanent / Full Time 37 hours per week

Closing date for applications is midnight of Tuesday 27^th October

Benefits:

• Over 7 weeks inclusive paid leave and the option to buy or sell leave
• Cycle to work scheme
• Excellent training and the opportunity to undertake professional training for some roles
• Flexible maternity paternity and adoption packages
• Up to 7% employer contribution and life assurance cover
• Blue Light Card eligibility with discounts at 15000 national retailers
• As part of our commitment to staff wellbeing youll receive a paid annual Wellbeing Day to use however you choose supporting a healthy balance between work and life.

At Action for Children we offer more than just a job. Join us and youll be part of a team dedicated to giving children safe and happy childhoods. See how your skills can make a real difference helping solve the problems children and young people face every day.

A bit about the role

As the Registered Manager youll lead a highquality residential service that supports children and young people who have experienced trauma and adversity. Youll ensure the home is safe nurturing and centred around each young persons needs rights and voice.

Youll provide strong compassionate leadership to the staff team promoting reflective practice accountability and continuous improvement. Your guidance will help the team deliver traumainformed childcentred care that supports stability wellbeing and positive outcomes.

Working closely with families and multiagency partners youll coordinate personalised support and ensure young people receive consistent care across all areas of daily life. Youll uphold safeguarding meet regulatory standards and maintain a welcoming home where young people can develop stability independence and a strong sense of belonging.

About the Service

Ayton Villa is a traumainformed residential home dedicated to providing a safe stable and nurturing environment for children who have experienced early adversity or trauma. Our approach is rooted in understanding how these experiences can shape a childs emotions behaviours and development and ensuring that every interaction supports healing trust and positive attachment.

The home itself is warm welcoming and truly centred around the children who live there. Recently rated Ofsted Outstanding Ayton Villa is recognised for its exceptional commitment to putting children first. The team consistently goes above and beyond to create a sense of belonging predictability and emotional safety tailoring care to each childs needs and working at their pace.

Being a traumainformed home means we prioritise relationships empathy and consistency. We focus on helping children feel understood and valued supporting them to build selfconfidence develop emotional regulation and lay the foundations for a brighter more hopeful future.

What you do could make a difference

Some key responsibilities for our Registered Manager are;

• Championing positive outcomes for children and young people ensuring they receive highquality care meaningful support and opportunities to grow achieve and thrive.
• Leading motivating and developing the staff team building a culture of accountability reflective practice and continuous improvement.
• Creating and maintaining a safe nurturing and welcoming home where children and young people feel secure valued and able to build positive relationships.
• Overseeing personalised care and support ensuring each young persons needs are met their rights upheld and their voices heard in all aspects of their care.
• Promoting positive experiences for young people living away from home supporting them to build stability confidence and independence.
• Ensuring young people receive consistent support across all areas of daily life promoting their health wellbeing happiness and overall development.

Lets talk about you

• Possess the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare or an equivalent Level 5 Diploma recognised under the DfE Guide to Childrens Homes Regulations 2015.
• Proven experience leading and managing a staff team driving high performance and delivering positive outcomes for children and young people.
• Experience supporting children and young people who have experienced trauma or adverse life experiences including those with social emotional and behavioural needs.
• A strong understanding of residential childcare practice with the ability to create and sustain a safe nurturing and childcentred environment.
• Experience working collaboratively with families and multiagency partners ensuring coordinated support and the best possible outcomes for young people.
• Experience supporting young people with complex health emotional or behavioural needs is desirable and would be an advantage in this role.

Why Action for Children

Every child should have a loving home food warmth the chance to grow and learn - the support to cope with lifes challenges. But too many children dont. By bringing your passion and unique skills and experience youll help us change that where it really matters.

Weve been driven by love to take action for children for over 150 years giving them the protection and practical help they need. A lots changed since 1869. But what children really need hasnt. So as long as children need us well be here.

Will you join us

Contact:Please submit an application via our careers page. If you have any further questions you can contact Laura McCarthy at quoting reference 13792

Our Commitment to Equity Inclusion and Anti-Racism

At Action for Children we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected valued and able to thrive. We know that racism and discrimination create barriers and we are taking active steps to challenge these inequalities in our organisation and in the communities we serve.

We strongly welcome applications from people who are Black Asian or from other racialised and ethnically marginalised communities as well as disabled people who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are committed to removing barriers in our recruitment processes and ensuring fair access to opportunities.

We also encourage applications from men who are under-represented in our Childrens Services roles. We recognise that people hold multiple identities and we value the richness this brings to our team

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