Regional Operations Manager - Children's Homes

+ Coach, support and motivate the cluster's Registered Home Managers team to develop and enhance individual and team performance and to optimise service delivery.
+ Develop and deliver strategic plans to develop the Children's Homes business within your cluster area in line with strategic plans for the broader business.
+ Monitor quality and manage performance of operational delivery in the Children's Homes, ensuring that KPI, legislative and Children's Homes regulations requirements are met.
+ Develop and maintain customer and account management relationships promoting the Children's Homes business with external stakeholders to maximise business opportunities
+ Maintain registration as Responsible Individual for your allocated cluster of Children's Homes in line with legislative and Regulations requirements
+ Manage the financial control of your cluster of Homes and matters relating to budgetary expenditure and income enabling the preparation of efficient management of forecasts and budgetary parameters.
+ Develop and produce operationally viable and cost-effective solutions to business development opportunities, delivering within bid timescales and in line with legislation and customer specifications.
+ Take a lead role in mobilising new and acquired Children's Homes within your cluster area to time and budget
+ Emergency On call responsibility in line with a planned rota system

+ Can demonstrate a full working knowledge of Children's Homes Regulations/Quality Standards - essential
+ Able to meet the requirements for registration as a Responsible Individual - essential
+ Willingness to travel around the Somerset area - essential
+ Experience leading a residential service to Ofsted Outstanding outcome - essential
+ QCF Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare - essential
+ Experience as an Operations Manager - desirable, You must be eligible to work in the UK and must have been resident in the UK for a minimum period of 3 years.

Homes2Inspire is part of Shaw Trust, one of the UK's largest charities and a leading not-for-profit provider of public services. We opened our first children's home in 2007 and have grown to become the UK's largest charitably owned residential children's home provider.

We now operate nearly 60 homes, two supported accommodation developments, and deliver high needs foster care through Fostering2Inspire and Homes & Horizons.

In 2022, Somerset Council entered a strategic partnership with Homes2Inspire and Shaw Trust to create Homes & Horizons - an innovative, wraparound model designed for children and young people with complex needs. The partnership delivers:

+ 11 residential homes (8 currently operational)
+ High-needs foster care for around 20 children
+ A therapeutic education service
+ Integrated care, education, and NHS support to prevent placement breakdowns and reduce Tier 4 CAMHS admissions

At Homes2Inspire, we believe every child deserves the best possible start in life. Our homes are warm, nurturing, and focused on relationships. We invest in our people because when children feel safe where they live, staff need to feel supported where they work.

The Right Candidate

We have an exciting opportunity for the right individual to manage a cluster of children's homes in our Somerset cluster.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent strategic, commercial, budgetary and quality assurance experience to support the growth of the business and achieve excellent outcomes for young people in our care with 'good' or 'outstanding' Ofsted outcomes.