Job summary
This is a unique opportunity to develop the culture of a new child focused multi agency service.
You will be helping to shape, develop and then ultimately manage a new Ofsted regulated Childrens Home comprised of three living areas with a communal space. The home is due to open in Spring/ Summer 2024, therefore your initial focus will be leading the project team to ensure everything is in place to ensure its successful launch.
Innovative in its purpose and approach, Hockley House will meet the complex needs of an identified cohort of up to 3 children and young people who have significant mental health and behavioural needs which do not meet the criteria for detention and treatment in hospital or the threshold for secure accommodation but require a high level of support.
With a planned intervention package that is multi agency at its core, children will experience the skill and expertise of Childrens Services residential and education staff and co-located Health Services who will work within a common framework of trauma informed therapeutic intervention. Creating this new local provision will also enable the young people to maintain family contacts, with the goal of reunifying the child with their family or supporting transitions to independence.
Main duties of the job
The Registered Manager will be responsible for line managing and leading a team that
will comprise of residential and health staff and will need to ensure that the service is
integrated and avoids admissions to secure accommodation and tier 4 hospital beds.
The role holder may be required to visit other locations within Hampshire , and
therefore needs to have the ability to travel as necessary.
About us
Hampshire County Council can offer you an improved work-life balance through our excellentbenefits packageincluding:
- Access to Local Government Pension Scheme (employer contributions starting at 16.1% of your salary).
- Between 26 - 30 days annual leave entitlement (dependant on Local Authority service).
- Employee Support Services.
- Family friendly policies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead and manage a specialist Registered Childrens Home (Hockley House) providing multi-disciplinary support and care to a specific cohort of children and young people.
- To ensure delivery of the service is driven by organisational and departmental strategy, in partnership with other agencies.
Effectively manage the resources, including HCC and health staff, involved in the development of strategies and delivery of services to users, ensuring efficient and effective deployment to agreed performance targets.
Budget/Finance and Physical Assets
- To manage placements from HCC and Health partners and subsequent transition plans to maximise the efficient and effective use of the home/ service plans to maximise the efficient and effective use of the home/ service.
Responsible for effective management of delegated budgets, including staffing provisions, maintenance etc, to deliver a service which Complies with recognised best practice, represents value for money and remains within allocated cash limits
Responsible for effective management of imprest and amenities accounts.
Authorises expenditure against budget cost codes.
- Ensures that County Councils financial procedures are complied with by self and staff delegated to carry out finance related tasks, including handling money on behalf of residents and service users.
- Complies with departmental budget monitoring requirements to ensure accurate tracking and forecasting of year-on-year expenditure.
- Responsible for the care and maintenance of the building, grounds, furniture, equipment, and other physical assets to ensure they are safe, and fit for purpose.
Staffing:
- To line manage two Deputy Managers (residential care and clinical leads) and residential and health staff (20 plus FTE) and any other posts as required to ensure the effective running of the home.
- To be the accountable and responsible manager for all work being undertaken on site, including that of health and education colleagues.
- To be responsible and accountable for all partnership working relating to the management and operation of the home.
- Responsible for keeping own and senior staffs awareness of employment law up to date, to ensure management practice is compliant.
- Recruit, train, develop and manage staff, in conjunction with health and education colleagues, to provide a competent and efficient workforce, paying particular attention to induction and culture.
- Ensure that all staff receive regular supervision and annual performance reviews and facilitate the provision of clinical supervision for health staff.
- Identify training & development needs for staff and secure development opportunities for them.
- Deal with performance and conduct issues promptly and according to County Council Policies and procedures.
- Lead and motivate HCC and Health staff to provide an appropriately caring and supporting environment for service users, having due regard for their dignity at all times.
- For the home to operate within a framework of practice that is trauma informed and utilises the latest in evidence-based research.
- Accountable for deployment of staff within the home and for ensuring that there is always the correct number and mix of staff on duty to comply with Ofsted requirements in the most cost-effective way.
- Carry out and regularly review risk assessments on staff, service users and activities and ensure that identified control measures are complied with.
- To continuously develop and implement a quality assurance framework that supports the effective management and continuous improvement of the home and achievement of expected outcomes.
Business Planning:
- To ensure the home adheres to the annual service planning cycle and that appropriate service plans are in place and drive the developments of the home.
- To ensure that the home is compliant with all of the national, regulatory and local standards and requirements as are in place at any given time.
- To assess referrals and plan placements and transitions in conjunction with health
- partners and Childrens Services colleagues and teams including social workers and Placement Commissioning Team.
- Consult and liaise with Childrens Services colleagues and teams including social workers and Placement Commissioning Team, health partners, staff, service users, carers, and other agencies and professionals as required to determine the service to be provided to individuals.
- In accordance with departmental plans, to determine the services to be provided within and by the home, and those to be accessed in the community to represent value for money and greatest benefit to service users identified needs.
- To maximise occupancy and the efficient use of resources.
- In conjunction with senior managers and partners, to apply for grants and other funding when available and applicable for the improvement and development of the home.
Care of Young People:
- To be responsible for the leadership of the home and ensuring that the culture and values of the home and staff are aspirational, child centred and drive continuous improvement and learning.
- To organise and sustain service integration, utilising high level leadership and communication skills and an understanding of multidisciplinary approaches and effective partnership working.
- To be responsible for the systems and processes required for the safe and effective management of the home, including quality assurance and staff supervision, training and development frameworks.
- To ensure that all assessment, care planning, risk assessment and behaviour management activities are undertaken in conjunction with internal health and education colleagues, parents & carers (where appropriate) and other agencies involved with the young people external to the home.
- To be responsible for ensuring the completion and quality assurance of all care plans, risk assessments and behaviour management plans for children and young people.
- To ensure that all children and young people have transition plans developed from the point of admission and ensure all interventions are focussed on achieving the objectives of the placement plan.
- To ensure that the children and young people are fully engaged and involved in the planning and development of the home and that their voice is clear and evident in all changes being made.
- To ensure that children and young people are safeguarded and protected from harm, including but not limited to: Exposure to abuse and exploitation, including from online sources, other young people and self-harm.
- Preventing the inappropriate use of behaviour management techniques including the use of physical interventions and restraint.
- Ensuring the safe administration of medication and therapeutic interventions
Effective use of Information Systems:
- To be responsible for the effective use of technology, information systems and equipment used for the management and operation of the home.
- To ensure that the use of information systems and recording practices is effective, integrated and efficient for the collection and reporting of management information and internal and external reporting requirements.
Corporate and statutory initiatives:
- Maintains an awareness of corporate and departmental equalities and health and safety policies and procedures and applies them in the day-to-day job requirements.
- Ensures staff are aware of corporate and departmental equalities and health and safety policies and procedures throughout training and advice to direct reports.
- Fulfils professional competencies where these are an essential requirement of the role.
Key Decision-Making Areas in the Role:
- Making and evidencing complex decisions unaided by policies and procedures.
- Assessing and managing significant risks, including reputational risks.
- Ensuring Business Continuity in the event of critical/ major incidents.
- Recruitment, Induction, training, and continuous development of a multi-disciplinary workforce.
- Effective deployment of resources, including residential and health staff, to ensure service delivery.
- Ensuring the safe and effective delivery of services including management of the building and resources.
- Promoting the service to stakeholders.
- Maximising occupancy / the utilisation of the service.
- Authorisation of expenditure within agreed limits.
- Initiating, implementing and evaluating strategic initiatives to enhance the quality and value of service provision.
- Dealing with disputes, complaints and grievances.
- Liaison and engagement with Ofsted and DFE (alongside senior managers).
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To lead and manage a specialist Registered Childrens Home (Hockley House) providing multi-disciplinary support and care to a specific cohort of children and young people.
- To ensure delivery of the service is driven by organisational and departmental strategy, in partnership with other agencies.
Effectively manage the resources, including HCC and health staff, involved in the development of strategies and delivery of services to users, ensuring efficient and effective deployment to agreed performance targets.
Budget/Finance and Physical Assets
- To manage placements from HCC and Health partners and subsequent transition plans to maximise the efficient and effective use of the home/ service plans to maximise the efficient and effective use of the home/ service.
Responsible for effective management of delegated budgets, including staffing provisions, maintenance etc, to deliver a service which Complies with recognised best practice, represents value for money and remains within allocated cash limits
Responsible for effective management of imprest and amenities accounts.
Authorises expenditure against budget cost codes.
- Ensures that County Councils financial procedures are complied with by self and staff delegated to carry out finance related tasks, including handling money on behalf of residents and service users.
- Complies with departmental budget monitoring requirements to ensure accurate tracking and forecasting of year-on-year expenditure.
- Responsible for the care and maintenance of the building, grounds, furniture, equipment, and other physical assets to ensure they are safe, and fit for purpose.
Staffing:
- To line manage two Deputy Managers (residential care and clinical leads) and residential and health staff (20 plus FTE) and any other posts as required to ensure the effective running of the home.
- To be the accountable and responsible manager for all work being undertaken on site, including that of health and education colleagues.
- To be responsible and accountable for all partnership working relating to the management and operation of the home.
- Responsible for keeping own and senior staffs awareness of employment law up to date, to ensure management practice is compliant.
- Recruit, train, develop and manage staff, in conjunction with health and education colleagues, to provide a competent and efficient workforce, paying particular attention to induction and culture.
- Ensure that all staff receive regular supervision and annual performance reviews and facilitate the provision of clinical supervision for health staff.
- Identify training & development needs for staff and secure development opportunities for them.
- Deal with performance and conduct issues promptly and according to County Council Policies and procedures.
- Lead and motivate HCC and Health staff to provide an appropriately caring and supporting environment for service users, having due regard for their dignity at all times.
- For the home to operate within a framework of practice that is trauma informed and utilises the latest in evidence-based research.
- Accountable for deployment of staff within the home and for ensuring that there is always the correct number and mix of staff on duty to comply with Ofsted requirements in the most cost-effective way.
- Carry out and regularly review risk assessments on staff, service users and activities and ensure that identified control measures are complied with.
- To continuously develop and implement a quality assurance framework that supports the effective management and continuous improvement of the home and achievement of expected outcomes.
Business Planning:
- To ensure the home adheres to the annual service planning cycle and that appropriate service plans are in place and drive the developments of the home.
- To ensure that the home is compliant with all of the national, regulatory and local standards and requirements as are in place at any given time.
- To assess referrals and plan placements and transitions in conjunction with health
- partners and Childrens Services colleagues and teams including social workers and Placement Commissioning Team.
- Consult and liaise with Childrens Services colleagues and teams including social workers and Placement Commissioning Team, health partners, staff, service users, carers, and other agencies and professionals as required to determine the service to be provided to individuals.
- In accordance with departmental plans, to determine the services to be provided within and by the home, and those to be accessed in the community to represent value for money and greatest benefit to service users identified needs.
- To maximise occupancy and the efficient use of resources.
- In conjunction with senior managers and partners, to apply for grants and other funding when available and applicable for the improvement and development of the home.
Care of Young People:
- To be responsible for the leadership of the home and ensuring that the culture and values of the home and staff are aspirational, child centred and drive continuous improvement and learning.
- To organise and sustain service integration, utilising high level leadership and communication skills and an understanding of multidisciplinary approaches and effective partnership working.
- To be responsible for the systems and processes required for the safe and effective management of the home, including quality assurance and staff supervision, training and development frameworks.
- To ensure that all assessment, care planning, risk assessment and behaviour management activities are undertaken in conjunction with internal health and education colleagues, parents & carers (where appropriate) and other agencies involved with the young people external to the home.
- To be responsible for ensuring the completion and quality assurance of all care plans, risk assessments and behaviour management plans for children and young people.
- To ensure that all children and young people have transition plans developed from the point of admission and ensure all interventions are focussed on achieving the objectives of the placement plan.
- To ensure that the children and young people are fully engaged and involved in the planning and development of the home and that their voice is clear and evident in all changes being made.
- To ensure that children and young people are safeguarded and protected from harm, including but not limited to: Exposure to abuse and exploitation, including from online sources, other young people and self-harm.
- Preventing the inappropriate use of behaviour management techniques including the use of physical interventions and restraint.
- Ensuring the safe administration of medication and therapeutic interventions
Effective use of Information Systems:
- To be responsible for the effective use of technology, information systems and equipment used for the management and operation of the home.
- To ensure that the use of information systems and recording practices is effective, integrated and efficient for the collection and reporting of management information and internal and external reporting requirements.
Corporate and statutory initiatives:
- Maintains an awareness of corporate and departmental equalities and health and safety policies and procedures and applies them in the day-to-day job requirements.
- Ensures staff are aware of corporate and departmental equalities and health and safety policies and procedures throughout training and advice to direct reports.
- Fulfils professional competencies where these are an essential requirement of the role.
Key Decision-Making Areas in the Role:
- Making and evidencing complex decisions unaided by policies and procedures.
- Assessing and managing significant risks, including reputational risks.
- Ensuring Business Continuity in the event of critical/ major incidents.
- Recruitment, Induction, training, and continuous development of a multi-disciplinary workforce.
- Effective deployment of resources, including residential and health staff, to ensure service delivery.
- Ensuring the safe and effective delivery of services including management of the building and resources.
- Promoting the service to stakeholders.
- Maximising occupancy / the utilisation of the service.
- Authorisation of expenditure within agreed limits.
- Initiating, implementing and evaluating strategic initiatives to enhance the quality and value of service provision.
- Dealing with disputes, complaints and grievances.
- Liaison and engagement with Ofsted and DFE (alongside senior managers).
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Professional qualification in a related field (such as mental health, social work, management).
- Extensive experience tial care of vulnerable children.
- Experience of manging regulated services subject to inspection and external judgement.
- Experience of managing o r working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to build teams and to be a team player and a predisposition to avoid silo working.
- Skilled at undertaking risk assessments at both an individual and service level.
- Skilled at developing plans to successfully develop and enhance services.
- Skilled performance manager.
- Experience of managing a large budget.
- Ability to negotiate and work constructively with partners.
- Ability to manage conflict and where possible to identify widely acceptable solutions.
- Excellent presentation skills.
Qualifications
Desirable
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management or equivalent.
- Previously Registered as a Manager with Ofsted or the CQC.
- Experience of working with OFSTED or CQC.
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Professional qualification in a related field (such as mental health, social work, management).
- Extensive experience tial care of vulnerable children.
- Experience of manging regulated services subject to inspection and external judgement.
- Experience of managing o r working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Ability to build teams and to be a team player and a predisposition to avoid silo working.
- Skilled at undertaking risk assessments at both an individual and service level.
- Skilled at developing plans to successfully develop and enhance services.
- Skilled performance manager.
- Experience of managing a large budget.
- Ability to negotiate and work constructively with partners.
- Ability to manage conflict and where possible to identify widely acceptable solutions.
- Excellent presentation skills.
Qualifications
Desirable
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management or equivalent.
- Previously Registered as a Manager with Ofsted or the CQC.
- Experience of working with OFSTED or CQC.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
