House Manager - Residential Family Centre

at  Fair Ways

WHO ARE FAIR WAYS AND WHAT DO WE STAND FOR?

Fair Ways is a leading children’s services charity based in the Solent, delivering Fostering, Education, Residential, Mental Health and Family services and cares for over 400 children, families, young people and vulnerable adults each year. Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of everyone in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops!

WHERE AND WHEN DO WE NEED YOU?

We are looking for a House Manager to support the growth and development of our Registered Family Centre in Southampton. The Family Centre is made up of 5 self-contained flats each with their own bathroom and kitchen facilities and a separate bungalow which can accommodate an additional 2 families. Families will be referred to the Family Centre if there have been concerns identified around the safety of the children within their existing family unit. Once with us, the families will be continuously encouraged, assessed and guided through a 12 week stay where they are monitored 24/7 to encourage sustainable positive parenting changes.

As a House Manager with Fair Ways you will deliver the highest standards of care and support to our children, families and vulnerable adults through:

• Keeping Children, families and vulnerable adults Safe - Managing any presenting safeguarding issues and oversee the monitoring of good practice within the Family Centre and ensuring safe working practices in accordance with regulatory standards and in line with Fair Ways Policies and Procedures to keep children, families and vulnerable adults safe from harm for the duration of their assessment.
• Leadership and Management - To support the Registered Manager in ensuring a high-quality service is delivered and maintained through effective deputising at multi-agency meetings, managing the day to day running of the centre and ensuring oversight of the family assessments in accordance with relevant Ofsted National Minimum Standards and regulations.
• Occupancy Management - To work with the service manager to maintain occupancy levels and effectively manage staffing requirements at the family centre. This will be done through effective screening of referral’s, oversight of the placement of families and managing the impact of this.
• Assessment Oversight - To have oversight of the completion of the parenting assessments alongside the Assessment team, ensuring these are of high quality, fair, robust, and evidenced based and to monitor the families impact and risk assessment while in placement.
• Line Management and Supervision - To line manage a number of direct reports offering reflective supervisions, guidance and undertaking monitoring of any required training and development in line with our professional development and progression plans.
• Multi-Agency Working- To attend and contribute to multi-agency meetings, court hearings and other forums to represent the Residential Family Centre. This will be achieved through confident communication, accurate evidencing and clear understanding of the final assessment report.
• Being a Trauma Informed professional - To oversee and model trauma informed responses through the individualised use of therapeutic support. You will demonstrate the therapeutic importance of maintaining a clean, tidy and homely environment through effective role modelling, ensuring families are supported appropriately during times of crisis and that we demonstrate an understanding of the parents’ early life experiences.
• Upholding appropriate professional boundaries - To proactively maintain safe supervision levels and respectful relationships with parents and children through effective support, guidance and care ensuring the maintenance of safe practice.
• Committing to your personal and professional development - To manage personal and continuous professional development through self-assessment, supervision and training.

Please refer the Job description for details