Deputy Manager Children’s Residential Home

**Deputy Manager Children’s Residential home**

**Are you Passionate about children?**

**Do you have experience working in children’s home as senior Residential Support worker ?**

If so, we have an opportunity for a Deputy Manager to join our team at one of our new children’s residential homes, to work as part of a team to support and maintain and caring and nurture which place the physical and wellbeing and safety of our childrenand young people at the very centre of what we do.

The home will provide vital services for some of the most vulnerable children and young people in the country, therefore it is critical that we seek a caring, reliable, consistent, and resilient Deputy Manager for our children and young people.

**We are looking for exceptional Deputy Manager for our new children’s home in Enfield, North London. We provide a bespoke service based on the ethos of the Social Pedagogy model embedded in our Trauma Informed Practice (T.I.P) Care Approach, for eachchild or young person aged 8-17yrs old on admission.**

**The home is a specialist small children’s home providing niche services to children between the ages of 8-17yrs whom have E.B.D- Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, where we will meet the needs of Looked After Children aged 8+ who have experiencedtrauma and display varying levels of emotional dysregulation and/or self-harming behaviour.**

**From there in line with our comprehensive work and support, they will either return home or move to foster care or independence. We work closely with universal and our in-house specialist services for children and young people with emotional or mentalhealth needs.**

We have a great team and are looking for a caring, committed and enthusiastic individuals who will share the same passion for children and young people as we do.

As a Deputy Manager, you will support and work alongside the Registered Manager in ensuring the residential support workers are inspired and actively taking responsibility for the delivery of high quality care with a passion for nurturing children and youngpeople with the emphasis being on promoting their physical, emotional and intellectual wellbeing, in addition to helping them with their social development. You will also be required to provide advice and advocate for our children and young people. We as anorganisation are child focused and friendly in all aspects of service delivery, keeping the children at the heart of all our decision making.

**Responsibilities and Duties**
- To ensure the children and young people are at the centre of all decision making and their voices are heard.
- To ensure all staff work inline with the statement of Purpose and promote positive culture within the home.
- To ensure you and the team work in partnership with colleagues from other agencies to protect and safeguard the children and young people in the placement.
- To ensure all care plan, placement plan and all other relevant document are review as and when changes are identified.
- Support to ensure the service is able to identify and manager need and risk safely whilst supporting children ad young people in the placement.
- To ensure quality of shift hand-over meetings, record and other duties are in line with best practice standards and reflect the Quality standards for

Children’s home and Children’s home Regulations.
- Assisting with the budget, and financial management of the service in accordance with Serene’s home policy and procedure, ensuring accurate recording.
- To effectively manage and provide support to the team and the children and young people in the home in absence of the Registered Manager
- Ensuring you are up to date and familiar with current legislative changes and policies and procedures.
- Role modelling best practice ensuring you practice with passion, integrity and that professional decision promote and are respectful of people’s culture, ethnic origin, faith, gender, sexual orientation and disability, so that rights and responsibilitiesare respected. You be responsible for ensuring that the residential support workers practice to these standards and are supported to do so. Where practice is not at the required standard you will take action in accordance with your role as a deputy manager.
- Working on a flexible basis to ensure necessary cover for the Home, which includes day shifts, night shifts, weekend shifts and bank holiday shifts. You also be willing to work on a shift based on Rots system.
- Willing to take other duties as may be deemed appropriate from time to time

**Criteria
- Essential and Desirable**
- Minimum 3 years’ experience working with children and young people, preferable in a children’s residential home, or equivalent settings.
- Experience in line management as a senior Residential support worker - Desirable
- QCF Level 3 in Residential childcare or equivalent - Essential
- QCF Level 5 in Residential childcare or equivalent - Preferred
- A passion for working with children - Essential.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of computer /word/outlook-based system
- Essential
- An enhanced D.B.S check will be completed -Essential.
- Full UK driving licence - Desirable.
- Applicants will need to be flexible to work as per the need of the home - Essential.
- Good Communication skills -Essential
- Good level of education-Essential
- Resilience and Patience
- Essential
- Going the extra mile -Essential
- Support workers that have work in semi-independence settings will be considered
- Essential.

**Job Type**: Full time, Permanent

**Great Benefits**
- Free parking
- Pension scheme
- Wellbeing service
- Funded QCF Level 3 Residential childcare
- Trainings and supervision
- Paid Annual leave.
- On call support
- Advance to Rota in advance

Schedule: Morning shift/ Afternoon shift / night shift, based on the needs of the home