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Job Title- Residential Manager

Location- Near Cumnock

Salary- £39,397.50- £42,024 DOE

Contract type- Permanent

Working hours- 40hrs Per week

About us

Spark of Genius is one of Scotland’s largest residential child care providers. For over 25 years, we have been delivering high quality care to young people who need to be looked after. Spark of Genius is also part of the UK-wide CareTech family who are committed to providing each child with opportunities to have their individual needs met.

About the Service

Our service is located on the outskirts of the village of Ochiltree in East Ayrshire surrounded on all sides by farmland, offering a therapeutic and peaceful environment for the young people to learn, grow and develop.

In your new role

You will manage the residential house effectively and efficiently, ensuring the effective delivery of the main responsibilities and key result areas identified within the role of Residential Manager, you will participate in an on-call rota to ensure effective management across services on a 24/7 basis. This is also a chance to make a difference to outcomes for young people! Our mission is to make Every Second Count, to help us succeed you will:

• Ensure staff team are supported and supervised which should include observation of practice across shifts.
• Ensure and promote the safeguarding of any young people that you may come into contact with.
• Manage and monitor staffing costs, staffing structures and rota’s, ensuring they meet requirements of the children’s needs and are in line with allocated budgets.
• Develop and make known to staff a variety of intervention strategies regarding the management of complex needs. In order that children can develop coping mechanisms to build resilience that is trauma informed in its approach.
• Take a lead in ensuring meetings and reviews of children and staff are delivered within required time scales.
• Complete the administration of financial, payroll and staffing related matters in the house within the prescribed time scales.
• Work in collaboration with Human Resources to manage all employee relations within the home, in line with current employment legislation and Spark of Genius policies and procedures.
• Work within the code of confidentiality and ensure that records in the house are stored and held in a manner which is compliant with regulations.
• Promote and actively encourage the professional development of staff.
• Directly deliver supervision to identified members of staff, in relation to Supervision and Personal Development Plans (PDP).
• Promote and actively encourage the delivery of a safe, structured and nurturing environment.
• Work in partnership with families, local authorities and external agencies.

You will ideally have:

• SVQ 4/SQF Level 9 Children and Young People and HNC/Academic equivalent qualification that meets SSSC requirements.
• Working towards remaining SSSC conditions eg (Management (PDA), Professional Care qualification (BA Hons Social Care, PDA) with no more than 6 months left to complete. 
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience at Assistant Manager level or a minimum of 4 yrs experience including a supervisory role/professional role and related experience.
• High standard of reporting and recording.
• Evidence of undertaking a supervisory role in relation to staff within a residential environment.
• Leadership and motivational skills.
• Wide knowledge of the needs of children and young people and an understanding of a myriad of intervention strategies. That leads to outcomes to support their individual care plan.
• Working Knowledge of legislation in relation to child care including National Care Standards, Children (Scotland) Act 1995, GIRFEC.
• Understanding the principles of safe guarding and child protection.
• To apply systems and processes within residential homes that are compliant with the national care standards and in line with the Promise.
• Full UK driving licence.

Benefits

As part of this role, we offer a range of specialist training programmes to support you in your work and invest in your professional development. These include:

• Fully Paid induction programme
• Every Second Counts: bespoke training on the role of a residential childcare worker
• Therapeutic crisis intervention training to assist young people in regulating their emotions when they are in crisis.