Deputy Childrens Home Manager
Location
Bridgwater, Somerset | United Kingdom
Job description
Deputy Children s Home Manager
Salary from: 29890 to 33000 per annum ( on call rota allowance) Dependent Upon Experience
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 personcentred 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 colleaugues
- 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:
- Be a good role model for the staff team at all times
- 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
- Be responsible and accountable for the young people s safety and wellbeing at all times; ensuring that their best interests are promoted at all times
- 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 wellbeing of the services users is promoted at all times
- 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 Childrens Residential Support Worker or senior post holder seeking career advancement
- Desirable experience in supervising a Team
Benefits
We value all our Deputy Childrens Home s Managers and reward with:
- 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 (incl bank holidays)
What you need You will need to be a caring, resilient, and adaptable team player. It is important that you are a positive and motivated individual. These are bank roles offered on a Casual Worker\'s Agreement, for people who have a passion to make a difference. All training will be provided and we are proud to offer an induction programme to enable you to settle into the role. Previous experience within a support work role with children, young people & families would be advantageous, along with NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Residential Childcare qualification. However, this is not essential entry criteria for this role. Driving licence and access to a reliable vehicle is required.
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