Childcare and Children’s Activity Manager
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Summary
The Childcare and Children’s Activity Manager at YMCA East Surrey is responsible for the effective management and delivery of multi-disciplinary services for children and families. This role involves leading service delivery, managing governance, ensuring compliance with regulations (including Ofsted), managing budgets, and developing training programs. The role requires strong leadership, experience in childcare settings, and a commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strong leadership for the service.
- Support strategic development and delivery of specialist services.
- Maintain high standards of professional competence.
- Provide line management to Service Managers and Coordinators.
- Ensure childcare services meets national and local performance indicators.
- Manage stakeholder engagement and financial integrity.
Core Requirements:
- Significant management and leadership experience in a childcare setting.
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant legislation.
- Experience with Ofsted and/or accreditations.
- Budget management experience.
- Strong communication skills.
- Commitment to safeguarding.
Job Purpose:
To be responsible for the management and effective delivery of multi-disciplinary services for children and families. The aim of the services managed by this post is to provide support to children and families to help to belong, contribute and thrive within East Surrey. Also, to support the HCYP with quality, development and training for staff and volunteers across the Children and Young People services.
Main Lead on service delivery, management and governance
Responsibilities:
– To provide strong leadership for the service based on a clear vision for the service, clarity of standards and outcomes to be achieved.
– With the Head of CYP support the strategic development, planning and delivery of specialist services for children and families ensuring an effective co- ordinated offer for these families is in place and to develop new childcare settings as appropriate.
– To have the primary responsibility for establishing, maintaining and developing consistent and high standards of professional and managerial competence amongst all staff involved in the delivery of Childcare in line with that of internal policies and procedures and of regulators such as Ofsted.
– To provide line management to the Service Managers and Co-ordinators and work with them to ensure they provide an effective service to children and families in Surrey.
– Maintain up to date detailed knowledge of legislation and national policy and to ensure SLT, CYP management team and the service are briefed on changes. This will include the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children’s Act 2014 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 amongst others.
– To have lead responsibility for ensuring the Childcare operates in a way which safeguards children and is fully compliant with children’s safeguarding procedures.
Manage stakeholder engagement and financial integrity
– Lead on ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in conjunction with the Quality and Insight Manager.
– With the Head of Finance and HCYP to produce annual budgets for Childcare services and monitor them to ensure financial viability and appropriate use of charitable resources
– To ensure that key relationships and business processes are in place to improve outcomes for children and families.
– Work with the Development Manager to support the Managers and Co- ordinators to write funding bids and reports for new and existing work
– To ensure childcare services meets both national, local performance and quality indicators in an effective and timely way.
– Ensure all key policies and processes are up to date and fit for purpose.
– Work collaboratively with Quality and Insight Manager to ensure services deliver value for money, within budgets and are evidence based, ensuring that services are rigorously evaluated working with the in terms of quality and outcomes and that they continuously improve and are provided in response to children’s needs.
Training and Development
– Contribute to an in-house training programme for CYP staff and volunteers, which is also offered to all YMCA East Surrey staff and volunteers and key partners
– Manage, and when required, deliver in-house training sessions supported by CYP Managers and Co-ordinators
– Work with the Head of CYP and HR to develop volunteering, apprenticeship, and traineeship opportunities across the department
Provide effective management and support and demonstrate the values and culture of YMCA East Surrey.
– Ensure that all activities demonstrate the values and culture of YMCA East Surrey.
– Work with the Head of CYP/Deputy CEO to support the implementation of YMCA East Surrey strategy and Operational Plan.
– Any other duties are required to be performed within the grade and renumeration of the role.
– We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults. This role will require an enhanced DBS disclosure. We require you to understand and demonstrate this commitment and attend any required training.
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Childcare and Children’s Activity Manager
Qualifications, Education & Training:
Degree level qualification in a Application and relevant field or substantial certificates professional work experience
Experience
Abilities, skills, and attitude
Other
Subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Application, DBS requirements with Children’s barred list DBS disclosure disclosure