Full Time 37 hours per week

Are you an existing Responsible Individual or a Registered Managers seeking a new challenge? Are you motivated by making a difference in children’s lives? Do you have the drive and focus to strive for outstanding outcomes for all children? Do you relish the challenge of leading teams to achieve their full potential?

You will lead and develop our fantastic teams within the Children's Home’s and work closely with colleagues and other agencies to secure inspiring outcomes for our young people.

We have an exciting opportunity for a new Responsible Individual post to join a passionate and innovative teams. You will be based in County Hall supporting our Children’s Home across Devon and we support working from home. As part of Children’s Social Care in Devon our Residential Children's Homes provide permanent Homes and Short Break service focuses on promoting independence, social inclusion, choice and individual support to children and young people with complex needs and/or behavioural difficulties.

You will be fully focused on the needs of the children and young people in your care and be led by those needs in the decisions you are making. You will be responsible for staff compliance with training to ensure they are always delivering the best care for the children and young people within the home. The views and wishes of the children and young people will be listened too and influence the delivery of care.

You will have substantial experience and knowledge in working in a Children’s Home’s and take pride in creating a warm and welcoming environment for our young people and staff. As the Responsible Individual you will have overarching responsibility for the homes and direct supervision of the Registered Managers. You will have an ambitious vision of high quality care, quality assurance, governance, managing teams and monitoring of budgets. You will be able to manage, support and develop teams to ensure they demonstrate the vision and goals of the organisation. You must have excellent leadership, management skills and strong organisational skills. You will have passion, drive, resilience, and ambition to maintain and exceed expectations for children and always want to strive to improve the home.

You must have up-to-date knowledge of Childcare legislation, Ofsted regulations and Quality Standards and Children's Homes Regulations 2015. Alongside passing the interview to be registered with Ofsted.

Holding a QCF Level 5 or equivalent is preferred although not essential if you have the right experience and a willingness to undertake this qualification.

Devon County Council
We offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of young people and their families in Devon. We offer training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:

* We promote a healthy work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements wherever possible, including working from home.

* Generous annual leave allowance.

* Employee Assistance for the times you may need some support and a variety of employee wellbeing services.

* Auto enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme and optional pension enhancement through our Additional Voluntary Contribution scheme.

* A Flexible Benefits Scheme via salary sacrifice to obtain a cycle for work and health screenings

* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

* DCC embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and safe. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to stop discrimination, challenge inequality and promote diversity across Devon.

* The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc. More information can be found on ourEquality and Diversity webpages.

* This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.

* Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.

* Happy to Talk Flexible Working.

* For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page.

DBS information
This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.

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