We are looking for a Registered Manager for a Residential Family Assessment Centre in Reigate. This will be a busy and challenging role and therefore you will have commitment and dedication to providing high quality support to family and staff in line with OFSTED regulations. You will also be required to have excellent safeguarding standards and a strong ethos of providing effective support to families to achieve positive outcomes.
As the Registered Manager you will have responsibility of staff management and supervision, which will include overall quality assurance of parenting capacity assessments. You will also have responsibility for the progression and quality of all the final parenting capacity assessments, which are submitted to the local authorities.
Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Requirements:
- A Social work qualification and registration with Social Work England
- At least 2 years in a role supervising and managing staff
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A minimum of 3 years post qualifying experience
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Good knowledge of safeguarding, assessment, and risk management and established experience of completing parenting capacity and holistic whole family assessments.
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Experience of partnership working with families and external agencies
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Ability to communicate effectively in complex or challenging situations with families.
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Must be prepared to be flexible across evenings and weekends, according to the needs of the service.
Preferable Skills and Knowledge:
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management, or a willingness to work towards achieving this qualification.
- Experience of Parenting Assessment Manual (PAM’s) or ParentAssess approach for assessing parents.
What we can offer you:
- Cashback for various medical appointments & treatments including optical and dental with MediCash.
- Win up to £150 per month in our REACH awards.
- Receive £200 (2 years), £400 (5 years) and £600 (10 years) service awards, plus up to £500 special recognition award for outstanding practice.
- 25 days annual leave, rising to 28 days within 4 years, plus all bank holidays.
- Additional 2.5 days each year for your birthday, a health and wellbeing day and a half day festive shopping day.
- Life Assurance Scheme.
- Salary sacrifice schemes, including childcare vouchers, technology and cycle to work.
- Clear progression pathways with our Management Training programme.
Our recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicants will be offered a role subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced DBS check.
Compass is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As we continue to grow, we know that we must have the most talented employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences to support our children and young people.