Head of Care - Internal Only

Head of Care– Empower Family Group 

As our Head of Care, you’ll be at the heart of our mission -
Empowering Care, Working Together, Learning and Leading - and play a pivotal
role in strengthening our culture, maintaining safeguarding standards, and
operational excellence.

You will provide effective strategic and
operational leadership, ensuring high -quality, consistent care and support for
children and young people across all existing and future provisions.

The role is responsible for ensuring that services meet
performance and growth objectives, supporting the development of new
provisions, and driving continuous improvement across the organisation. Working
in partnership with internal and external stakeholders, you will
lead placement decision -making, coordinate care planning, and promote a
collaborative approach to achieving positive outcomes for children and young
people.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing
  effective leadership and management across Residential, Supported Living
  and Outreach services.
  
• Ensuring
  compliance with all relevant legislation, regulatory requirements,
  government guidance, and company policies.
  
• Maintaining
  high standards of care, safeguarding, and service delivery for children
  and young people.
  
• Leading
  placement decisions and working collaboratively with commissioners, local
  authorities, and other partner agencies.
  
• Supporting
  the strategic growth and development of existing and new service
  provisions.
  
• Monitoring
  service performance against agreed targets and driving continuous
  improvement.
  
• Ensuring
  a coordinated, child -centred approach to care planning and service
  delivery across all provisions.
  

This role plays a key part in supporting Empower's vision to
deliver outstanding care and positive outcomes for children and young people.

Requirements

Ability
to commute/relocate:

• Taunton,
  TA2 8QN: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
  

Experience:

• Senior
  managerial: 3 years (required)
  

Licence/Certification:

• Degree (required)
  
• Driving
  Licence (required)
  
• Level 5
  in Leadership and Management Qualification (required)
  

Benefits

• Free parking
  
• Blue Light Card access
  
• Eyecare Vouchers
  
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing app, providing 24/7 support and resources
  
• Discounted site
  
• Allocated funding for team building activities, social events and celebrations throughout the year
  
• Learning and development opportunities