Head of Residential Services

Are you looking for a new challenge and would like to lead a team where you can work with like-minded people to make a difference in the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in care? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Position: Head of Residential Services

Location: East Anglia Hybrid working, Head office in Norwich with office space in Kings Lynn and Peterborough

Job type: Permanent / Full Time

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: GBP50,663 - GBP57,390 per annum

Closing Date: 3rd January 2024

About the Role

You will be providing strategic and operational leadership to a range of residential children s homes and projects across East Anglia. You will be empowered and supported to develop and shape our services to deliver outstanding outcomes for children and young people, leading and developing a team of highly capable and ambitious managers to perform at their best.

This role sits as part of the Care Leadership Team, alongside 8 other brilliant people so you will have lots of peer support, and opportunities to stretch your skills and talents and develop your career.

No two days will be the same, but each week starts and ends with a whole Care Leadership Team catch-up, sharing risks, plans and successes. You ll have a few days working at home, some in head office and usually 1-2 days in services (or pro rata for part-time).

Key responsibilities of the Head of Residential Services include:

To provide strategic and operational leads to a range of residential children s homes and projects across East Anglia.To develop and shape the services to deliver outstanding outcomes for children and young people as part of the Care portfolio.To act as the solo and dual residential homes lead within the Care division, working alongside the other Heads of Service.To contribute to the development of the wider care services strategy.Ensure that all legal, contractual and care standards requirements are adhered to on a continuous improvement basis.To be a constructive, committed, and active member of the Break leadership team and continuously promote the wider Break agenda.

To perform well in this role, you ll need:

Educated to degree level or qualified by experience.

The ability to attain a Level 7 Management qualification (or equivalent).Minimum of 2 years experience at a management level in a care services environment, ideally managing managers.Working with Children, young people, and families, ideally with experience in residential services.Presenting complex reports and updates to audiences ranging from young people to the Board of Trustees.Experience working in an environment with multiple stakeholders.Experience of working to pre-defined timelines and outcome targets.The planning, monitoring, adapting and evaluating of projects including using co-production.Working with a range of outcomes measurement tools.

In your role, you ll have access to the following benefits:

Competitive salary

Excellent annual leave package, including additional service-related holiday from 2 years.

Discounted Will writing service.

A benefits platform enabling you to access discounts across a range of shops, venues, and services.

Free counselling service to all our employees.

The opportunity to influence the organisation s strategy and direction through the Staff Consultation Forum.

Life assurance to the value of 3x your annual salary.

Enhanced sick pay.

To comply with the Immigration Asylum & Nationality Act 2006 and additional amendments, and UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI) requirements, all prospective employees will be asked to supply evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

About the organisation

The employer is a forward-thinking non-profit organisation that has delivered unique support for young people across East Anglia for over fifty years. Co-production with staff, young people and families is at the very heart of everything they do. They have a range of residential services, a family assessment centre, a fostering agency, Staying Close, Staying Connected and services for disabled children and their families. As a trauma-informed organisation, all their young people and employees are supported by their highly skilled therapeutic team - and their lifelong offer means that even when young people leave their care, they will always be there for them.

With low staff turnover and vacancy rates, they have over 90% good and outstanding gradings across their services and deliver great outcomes for our young people. Our ambition is to grow and build even further - creating an environment where people can develop their talent and see the difference they make. You could be part of this.

You may have experience in roles such as Head of Residential Services, Services Lead, Services Manager, Deputy Services Manager, Leadership, Children, Children in Care, Children s Care Services, Care Head, Head of Service, Head of Care, Care, Children s Social Care etc.

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by Social Care People on behalf of the organisation.