Registered Home Manager

Location: Oban, Argyll and Bute area.

Salary: £37,327 – £49,440 per annum (depending on experience and qualifications) plus £2,000 annual car allowance

New Reflexions is a childcare organisation dedicated to offering care, education, and therapy services to young people who have encountered trauma, leading to emotional and behavioural challenges. Specifically, the New Reflexions Children’s Residential Service provides therapeutic placements, catering to individuals aged between 10 and 18 years, for both short-term and long-term placements.

At New Reflexions our young-person centred ethos has significantly contributed to us being regarded as an employer of choice within the residential childcare sector. Our staff members are supported and valued; as an organisation we are committed to the continued learning and development of all our employees.

Main Role and Responsibilities :

• To efficiently provide leadership and management of the Home in line with the Statement of Purpose, and all regulations and legislation relating to residential childcare and positive outcomes with regulators.
• To actively work with the Referrals Manager to ensure appropriate placements are made and maintained.
• To know, understand, implement, model, provide a safe, caring environment to enable the emotional, social, and educational development of our young people.
• To represent the company in a professional manner and ensure effective partnership working within the organisation and with external agencies.
• To work within New reflexions Policies and Procedures at all times to ensure compliance.
• As part of our Behaviour Management Model (RTI) Managers must ensure that an incident review is conducted following every incident involving physical intervention, including de-briefs and reflective practice in line with regulations.

Our homes offer long term placements where young people receive a high level of nurturing and therapeutic care. Residents are supported to attend school or college and are equipped to become successful young adults in the future.

We also have 1 response home that offer an immediate response for young people who may be experiencing a crisis in their life. Placements are generally kept to 90 days. Our residents are offered a specially tailored programme containing a considerable amount of outdoor activities provided by the staff team throughout their stay. This provides the young people with fun, but also space and time to work through their difficulties and seek the help and support they need.

Essential Requirements

• Full UK manual driving Licence; access to own vehicle
• Hold a SVQ Level 7 Qualification or equivalent
• Have a minimum of 1 years’ Senior RCW experience

Desired Requirements

• Passionate about helping children
• Able to get to a rural work location
• Able to complete a rota pattern with Sleep ins
• A keen interest in outdoor education is advantageous as we encourage our young people to be actively involved in the outdoors.

We offer care workers support through our comprehensive paid two-week in-person training program, when you first join us (Please not you will be required to travel to our head office in Shrewsbury, Shropshire for the initial training. Accommodation will be provided). After finishing your training, you will become familiar with your role by meeting your team, attending a house meeting, and shadow shifts, which will help you ease into your duties. Managers will be on hand to offer assistance and guidance whenever required.

Benefits

• We offer routes for progression and the opportunity to complete your QCF Level 3 & 5 Diploma or Residential Childcare or equivalent following completing your 6 months probationary period.
• Fully paid 2 week induction training including First Aid Level 3.
• Free access to 5 holiday homes throughout the UK for a personal holiday in the following locations; Borth, Tenby, Morecambe, Ayr and Clarach Bay.
• All compliance checks are fully funded and also all employees are on the DBS update service.
• Wellbeing – All access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers support to your wider family members including access to face to face counselling service.**
• Access to the blue light card scheme and Bright exchange which offers many exclusive perks and discounts
• Refer a friend scheme – refer a friend to come join the New Reflexions team and earn a £500 bonus per referral or £1,000 for a qualified referral.
• Bike-to-work and electric vehicle scheme
• Competitive Workplace pension
• Access to the Training Hub with 800 care sector-specific specialist online subjects; CPD accredited & certificated
• Access to external clinical supervision
• Staff working on “key dates” will receive time and half for any hours worked on these days.

The post holder has the responsibility to adhere to our Safeguarding and Child Protection Procedure.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. Therefore, as this post of Residential Support Worker is a regulated activity and/or on a regulated site the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS, and our safer recruitment process. If you have any questions regarding this, please highlight these in your application.

This post is exempt from the provisions of section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions Order 1975)

Due to the company having their own fully trained bank staff we do not employ agency. At the current time the company are unable to offer sponsorship opportunities.