Deputy Children's Home Manager

2 weeks ago

Bridgwater, United Kingdom Empower Family Group Full time

Deputy Children’s Home Manager

Salary up to £36,745 per annum (+ on call rota allowance) 

Full time, permanent contract

40 hours per week

Job Role:

As a Deputy manager, you’ll be based within the home to support the staff team and young people in the provision of a stable, structured, and therapeutic environment. You will work closely with the manager and staff team to ensure that they work closely with the children and young people who live there by being nurturing, listening, and encouraging. You will take the lead on shift to ensure that the values of organisation are embodied, ensuring the effective implementation of care plans and person-centred care, as well as taking a lead role in developing and updating the key documents, whilst role modelling and supporting colleagues. It is essential that you are a supportive, driven person who displays patience, kindness, and leadership skills that enable you to role model a passion for empowering young people to achieve their full potential. You will be expected to work a mixture of earlies and lates as agreed with the home manager – amounting to 2/3 lates per week and one weekend day per calendar month. Expectations to support in covering shortfalls alongside the home manager.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

  • Share and embody the company ethos and values at all times in your practice.
  • To fully understand, contribute to, and implement the homes Statement of Purpose
  • Support the manager in practices that promote the individuals' care plans. These should reflect their wishes and changing needs including communication and independence skills.
  • To provide child focused practices such as activities, shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, and personal care tasks: bathing, cutting fingernails, using the toilet
  • To support the service users in an appropriate professional manner in all aspects of their lives, be this personally, emotionally, physically, socially, or vocationally
  • To support people to maintain relationships with their family and friends.
  • To understand and respect things which are important to service users and colleagues.
  • To encourage service users to make choices and decisions for themselves and support them to do new things in a way that keeps them safe, but does not allow concerns about safety to stop them doing the things they want to do.
  • To be flexible in your approach and work for the benefit of the service users and colleagues
  • To work sleep shifts or waking nights if required to do so.

Key Attributes:

  • Always be a good role model for the staff team.
  • Ensure the staff team are supported, mentored, and receive the highest quality of supervision and coaching where appropriate.
  • Undertake all duties of your role with due diligence and pride.
  • Always be responsible and accountable for the young people’s safety and well-being at all times; ensuring that their best interests are promoted.
  • Assist with supervisions.
  • Take responsibility for ensuring that all identified tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner.  

Safeguarding:

  • To ensure that the safety and well-being of the services users is always promoted.
  • Nurture a positive culture of safeguarding processes and practices, ensuring that you keep up to date with any changes and updated guidance as directed by line managers.
  • Follow all instructions and/ or actions identified in care plans and risk assessments.
  • To report any worries or concerns to your line manager in a prompt timescale
  • Follow statutory and company guidance on whistleblowing and complaints/ grievance procedures.
  • Be responsible and accountable for ensuring that all staff adhere to all safeguarding practices.

This role is subject to the successful applicant having an enhanced DBS check for child and adult workforce with barred list checks. 

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 & 2023).

 

This post is only available to applicants aged over 21 as permitted under the Equality Act 2010.




Requirements

 

  • Full driving license
  • NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare
  • Desirable - NVQ Level 5 in Leadership & Management
  • Experience of being a Children's Residential Support Worker or senior post holder seeking career advancement
  • Desirable - experience in supervising a team.


Benefits
  • Length of service rewards, giving you the opportunity to have more paid holiday.
  • On Call Allowance - £35 per day
  • Blue Light Discount Card
  • Fully funded Level 5 Leadership & Management
  • Support and career development to become a RM .
  • 28 days A/L (including bank holidays)




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