Rotherham Council - Service Manager

This post will play a key role in the development and management of a range of in-house residential provision including emergency accommodation for Rotherham looked after children. Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in children's residential services.
This will ensure more of their looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family and schools. They plan to use current best practice and evidence based models to develop a range of new children`s homes, that are small, replicate family life and seek step down to family based options wherever possible.
They want their residential homes to be an `intervention not a destination for our younger young people and prepare our older children them to successfully transition into adulthood with well-established supportive connections ` and are at the start of an implementation journey over the next 2 years to make this a reality.
Our client is looking for experienced manager of residential services and provision who will be responsible for the operational development of Rotherham's children's residential service. This will include supporting registration of new provision, recruitment and development of the staff teams including Registered managers. The post holder will oversee the ongoing development and as a result may operate as a Registered Manager for short periods in order to support development of provision as per the impleme...