Interviews: 18 August
Lincolnshire County Council is seeking an experienced and ambitious Registered Manager to lead Albion Street in Spalding. This is an opportunity to lead a well‑resourced, ambitious service and make a lasting impact on the lives of children while developing a high‑performing team.
Role
As Registered Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the leadership, development, and day‑to‑day operation of the home, ensuring children receive the highest standards of care, support, and safeguarding while achieving positive outcomes.
Working closely with senior leaders, partner agencies, families, and carers, you will create a high‑performing home where children achieve exceptional outcomes and staff are empowered to excel. You will lead and develop a committed staff team while ensuring the home operates in line with regulatory requirements, local authority policies, and best practice standards.
As part of our significant investment in residential childcare, you’ll join an expanding, ambitious service with the opportunity to shape practice, develop talented teams, and drive outstanding outcomes. You’ll be supported by two dedicated Residential Service Leads, giving you the opportunity to work within a well‑resourced leadership structure that promotes collaboration, shared expertise and successful service delivery.
Main duties of the job
About You
We’re looking for a confident leader with a passion for achieving the best outcomes for children with:
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or willingness to work towards).
- Proven leadership experience within a children’s residential setting in the last five years.
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding procedures, child protection legislation, and Children’s Homes Regulations and Quality Standards.
- Eligible to register with Ofsted as a Registered Manager and work positively with Ofsted to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
- A good understanding of Therapeutic Practices and PACE.
About us
Lincolnshire County Council, is one of the largest employers in the county. We are an organisation that embraces diversity, innovation and progress. We value our people and want to ensure that we can support you in joining and growing with us.
We will view you as an integral member of our community and recognise that your well‑being is paramount. To show our appreciation, we’ve crafted a competitive package designed to not only acknowledge your hard work but also foster a healthy work‑life balance.
From health benefits and retirement plans, we strive to provide a package that supports well‑being and financial stability and that meets the diverse needs of our workforce.
We want everyone who works with us to feel included and celebrate their uniqueness. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and promoting good relations for both employee and for the people of Lincolnshire.
People often say every day is a learning day and at LCC a culture of learning is something we really believe in. We recognise the importance of supporting your learning and development and can offer a variety of different learning opportunities depending on what is right for you and the organisation. This could be through your everyday tasks, through hands‑on experience, structured programs, formal qualifications, coaching, or informal learning opportunities.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be contracted to work within the Directorate’s Children’s Residential Services and is responsible for the management of a Children’s Home. On a day‑to‑day basis the manager of the Children’s Home exercises responsibility for children requiring residential care. The post holder will ensure the efficient and effective management of all resources allocated to the home and ensure quality services are provided for ‘Children in Care’ whilst working within the policies, procedures and guidelines of the Directorate.
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To lead a team of Residential Care Officers and other support staff to deliver high quality care for children on a 24/7 basis. Lead and develop the staff team to care and supporting them to remain safe, recover from the trauma they have experienced and achieve the best possible outcomes before achieving a positive move on. Complete thorough assessments and trajectory plans to establish the needs of children as part of their admission and transition in and out of the home. Through effective care planning, maximise choice and ensure that the service is provided in a planned and effective way.
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Manage physical resources to meet all appropriate legislative and regulatory requirements, taking action to minimise risk to people, plant, property and reputation of the Council.
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Manage, monitor and control activities against delegated budgets.
Manage, monitor and control physical environment to meet legislative and regulatory requirements.
Manage, monitor and control human resources to ensure effective delivery of service to meet statutory and legislative requirements. Work within the HR procedures to challenge practice that falls below expected standards. Appropriately manage sickness absence and conduct issues within the team.
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Create and maintain the necessary conditions for effective service delivery.
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To promote by personal example and through appropriate management, good practice, professional conduct and ethical standards.
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Establish and maintain monitoring systems within the home and participate in departmental monitoring and evaluation processes such as conducting quality audits.
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Contribute to the selection of key performance indicators to monitor projects, performance and plans. This is to comply with Ofsted regulations and meet any requirements.
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To work within the policies, practices and procedures of the Social Services Directorate. To meet the requirements as a Registered Manager as set out in the Children’s Homes National Minimum Standards Care Standards Act 2000 and the Children.
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Full managerial responsibility for (ordinarily) ten‑twenty staff members to include Deputy Managers, Residential Care Officers, Unit Administrator, Cook, Support Workers and Handyperson.
Supervision includes planning, organising, allocating and evaluating work carried out by teams and individuals against performance indicators and targets.
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Identifying opportunities for improvement and change in services, evaluating and proposing changes and negotiating their implementation.
Planning activities and determining work methods to achieve objectives. This involves the development, maintenance, review and improvement of development activities to meet identified development needs.
Contributing to the identification of training needs within the staff team and assisting in the implementation of agreed training programmes for all staff to include the development of in‑house training and the nomination of staff for departmental and other training courses.
Identifying the scope for improving the efficient and effective use of the Home’s resource.
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The post holder is expected to attend various meetings and forums in order to contribute to the positive development of the Directorate’s childcare strategy and services.
Negotiate and take appropriate action to ensure that expenditure is kept within the defined financial limits of allocated budgets and support efficiency savings were possible for the wider directorate.
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The post-holder will apply discretion and judgement within defined guidelines in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures including:
Allocation of work to staff.
Revision of working practices and procedures.
Manage monitor and control the use of resources.
Manage monitor and control activities against delegated budgets.
Justify proposals for expenditure on any new project and contribute expenditure where appropriate.
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The ability to adapt and change to differing work and competing demand i.e. demands of providing a 24 hour 7 day a week service: Managing human resources, managing day to day care for challenging young people, Managing financial constraints, managing conflict and interruptions.
There will be a requirement to provide practical support and guidance on an out of hours basis to own and other Children’s Homes as determined by the Directorate and within the general scope of the post in the absence of the Service Manager.
Competing physical, emotional and psychological pressures including dealing with young people with and challenging behaviours.
Some risk of verbal abuse and or risk of physical abuse from service users.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or willingness to work towards).
- Proven leadership experience within a children’s residential setting in the last five years.
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding procedures, child protection legislation, and Children’s Homes Regulations and Quality Standards.
- Eligible to register with Ofsted as a Registered Manager and work positively with Ofsted to ensure compliance and continuous improvement.
- A good understanding of Therapeutic Practices and PACE.
- Have at least two years management experience within children’s residential services.
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.
52,413 to 60,050 a year, Pay Award Pending
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