Registered Manager - Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children's Service

Role Responsibility

We can offer you a competitive salary starting of up to £57,712 plus market premium payments, staff benefits package and excellent career development in a fast moving and expanding service for UAS children.

Our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking (UAS) Children’s Service provides accommodation and support to newly arrived Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking children in Kent. The Service leads on social work practice with Unaccompanied Asylum-seeking children in Kent, which Ofsted recognises as Outstanding.

We are seeking experienced Children’s Home Managers who are familiar with Ofsted regulation and setting high standards within a children’s home.

Managers need to be adept at running a home and managing a group of staff to enable them to meet the care needs of UAS children. Successful applicants will be passionate and skilled in quality assuring practice whilst able to motivate and inspire staff to provide the best care to UAS children at the start of their resettlement journey.

You’ll be a champion of social care values, delivering and improving services for children and young people. Your day-to-day support and high-quality supervision will ensure your team can meet complex and changing demands of the service, as well as enable their ongoing development.

You should be confident in your ability to lead and develop a team. With an in-depth understanding of safeguarding procedures, legislative frameworks and social work theories relating to child services, you’ll have the expertise needed to contribute to practice and policy development.

This role requires Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England) or equivalent.

Our Offer

• Full induction
• Basic salary of between £49,522 and £57,712
• Market premiums as follows:
• £4,000 Golden Hello
• £3,000 Annual Retention Premium (paid in instalments)
• £2,000 Service-Related Premium (paid in instalments)
• £1,000 additional payment upon successful Ofsted registration
• Annual leave allowance of 29 to 30 days
• Relocation packages up to £8,000
• Excellent local government pension scheme
• Opportunities to develop in your career
• The opportunity to develop knowledge in niche areas of social work and expand your knowledge and skills of working with children seeking asylum