director of care south operations social work childcare management blud covering south of england salary our client provide breakthrough care and education pathways for young people enabling them to achieve a better future they offer a marketleading breadth of therapeutic residential fostering and special education services their range of services enables looked after children to gain the skills and confidence to progress from specialist residential homes to family placements such as fostering or independent living they currently have an exciting opportunity for a director of care south operations to join them to have overall management responsibility for the residential operational services across the south of england and to provide strong leadership and the direction to support their organisation within this role you must develop and sustain effective and productive relationship partnerships with all external agencies professional bodies and stakeholders ensuring strategic vision qualitative objectives and ethos of care is implemented throughout the homes whilst liaising and advising of recommended developments to the chief executive and the board ensuring each young person has the opportunity to attend qualitative education and that each of their childrens homes meet the standard and expectations contained in their statement of purpose you will establish and maintain bestpractice systems risk appraisals and quality assurance procedures to ensure high quality high value services and good outcomes for young people and local authorities to be successful in this role candidates must hold a tertiary level qualification social work degree nvq child related along with a management diploma or equivalent have good written and verbal communication skills along with solid it skills with the ability to integrate as an experienced senior team member you will have proven experience of working with a wide range of contacts within social services department and the ability to achieve relevant commercial applications within the childcare sector knowledge of employment legislation would be desirable however is not essential they look forward to working with you together you can make a real difference to the outcomes of young people with the greatest needs in their community please refer to the full job description and person specification when completing your application this is a blue octopus recruitment ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email