Cityworx are recruiting on behalf of a client who are looking for a Registered Manager to lead a small care home in the Farham area that supports those with complex mental health needs.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead and direct the day-to-day operational management of the home, ensuring that available resources are used effectively to enable the provision of a good quality service.
• Ensure that all staff working within the home receive regular supervision
• Work closely with the Service Development Team, participating in the selection and compatibility of potential new residents, their assessment, and transition into the home if appropriate.
• Ensure that all service users have a dynamic support plan, which involves the person as far as is possible, takes account that person’s needs and aspirations, and is reviewed regularly.
• Hold responsibility for ensuring that the home operates in accordance with all statutory requirements, using the National Minimum Standards as a benchmark for good practice.
• Ensure that the home offers a safe environment geared to creating opportunities for the personal development of service users, taking into account practical, physical and emotional needs.
• Take a lead role for risk analysis within the home, ensuring that appropriate assessments take place, and plans put in place to minimise risk where necessary.
• Ensure that all steps are taken to maintain the health of people living within the home. Play a supporting role to Senior Managers regarding the Contract Monitoring process, providing reports and management information on the conduct of the home where this is necessary.
• Liaise with external Agencies as appropriate, and ensure that contact between the staff team and those Agencies is conducted in a professional manner.
• Work with the Personnel Department in supporting the recruitment and selection of staff, and assist the Area Manager in the formulation of staffing strategies, Policies and Procedures, and other pieces of managerial work as required.
• Participate, as required, in the formulation of budgets and to monitor expenditure in specific budget headings as required.
• Ensure that proper record and administrative systems are in place within the home
• Be accountable for the management of the Home’s petty cash float and any monies/valuables belonging to service users kept within the home.
• Participate in the Area’s on-call management system as required.
• Ensure that the home is run in accordance with good Health & Safety practice and legal requirements.
• Ensure that maintenance and equipment renewal needs are communicated to the relevant person, obtaining costings/quotes where appropriate, and then ordering items/services once authorised.
• Undertake any other managerial tasks as required, in accordance with the seniority and level of responsibility inherent in this position.

We are looking for someone who has extensive experience in management of a care service, ideally having worked in CQC Registered mental health care service. You will need to hold, or be working towards, NVQ Level 5 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent)