Residential Service Manager

BCFT Residential Service Manager (RSM1602)

Service Manager – Children’s Residential Homes 

Bradford Children and Families Trust

Childrens Services 

Salary: £56,595 - £60,303
Retention bonus: £3,000 for 2023/24 paid in two halves
Hours: 37 
Contract: Permanent 
Base: Sir Henry Mitchell House (however subject to change)
Holidays: Up to 32 days holiday + 8 bank holidays a year   
Excellent Pension: Defined benefit scheme with 16.8% employer contribution   
Career Progression: Tailored training and development opportunities   
Professional Support: Regular supervision and annual appraisals, payment of professional fees 

This is a rare opportunity for you to put your leadership skills to the test. It’s your chance to contribute and make an impact through your creativity, innovation and desire to drive forward practice improvement.

The challenges you’ll face are diverse and complex. We’ll look to you to lead the operational side of the service, driving forward practice improvement, delivering good outcomes and securing long-term aspirational plans for permanence. But we’ll be with you on every step of your journey with us – enabling you to become the best you can be through continuous learning and development and a focus and investment in your health and wellbeing.

We need a courageous leader who puts ‘the child’ at the heart of every decision. Someone who enthusiastically embraces change, thrives on challenge and tackles the most complex needs with drive and determination to ensure the best outcomes for the children and young people of Bradford. Thoughtful, considerate and dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for children and young people, you’re a leader with an unwavering commitment to supporting and safeguarding the most vulnerable children through the highest quality safeguarding practices.

Your passion keeps you focused on delivering the highest standards at every opportunity. As well as steering the course of the service we want to provide, your experience, guidance and dedication will provide invaluable support and inspiration for those around you.

With responsibility for the effective leadership and management of the residential homes, you’ll ensure that the provision achieves good outcomes for vulnerable children and contributing to good outcomes for children in need of protection and/or looked after young people. You’ll provide specialist knowledge and experience for our children’s homes that provides support for children in care whilst ensuring that our children’s homes are operating within the inspection framework and children’s homes regulations and quality standards.

You’ll regularly review and evaluate the effectiveness of care plans, policies, and procedures to ensure they align with best practices and regulatory requirements and collaborate with partner agencies to coordinate support services for children and young people. Maintaining open and regular communication with the families or guardians of children in care, keeping them informed of their child's progress and any significant developments will be critical.

Bradford Children and Families Trust was established to bring a step change in the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear - to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition. Working for the Bradford Children and Families trust offers the opportunity to work with great people who are passionate about delivering change,

To learn more about the role, please see the Job Profile attached.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Amandip Johal, Assistant Director (07773 248 040, amandip.johal@bradfordcft.org.uk) or Pamela Stanyon-Carr, Head of Service – Residential, Fostering and Placements (07890420872, pamela.stanyon-carr@bradfordcft.org.uk)

Please apply online and submit your CV including a supporting statement (no more than 4 sides of A4) expressing why you are interested in this role and how you meet the specific requirements of the role.

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will required for this post.

Please find below attachments

Job Profile    Residential Service Manager.pdf

 Closing Date: 25th Feb 2024

Interviews:  Week beginning 4th March 2024.