Deputy Residential Home Manager

Location

Oldham, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

People and Place

Rivendell Deputy Manager and Hawthorne Deputy Manager

Ref: G7/OL-90188

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £36,648 - £40,221 plus10% unsocial banding

Car User: Essential User

Hours: 36.66 per week

Based: Residential Homes

Closing Date: Sunday 17th March 2023

Interview Dates: TBC

Informal Enquiries: Andrea Worthington, Head of Residential Services

Email: [email protected]

Here at Oldham, we are always looking for ambitious and motivated individuals to join our Children’s Social Care teams, which are listed below. When you apply, please state which role or roles you are applying for.

There's never been a better time to join Children’s Social Care at Oldham:

In Oldham we have the highest aspirations to achieve the best outcomes for our children and families and to sustain them in their communities. We put their needs at the heart of everything we do, and we’re committed to providing our staff with the resources needed to work effectively with children and families, including reducing caseloads.

This has resulted in investment in more teams across a range of service areas and we’re now looking for motivated and ambitious individuals who share our aspirations to join us.

About The Role:

We are looking for an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated Deputy Manager for one of our children’s residential care homes who shares our aspirations for children and young people in care in Oldham. You should be passionate about securing good outcomes for children, young people and families and have a sound knowledge of Legislation and Regulations for children’s homes.

As the Deputy Manager you will provide a planned and safe caring environment which gives care, control, and nurture, appropriate to maintaining and promoting the emotional and physical well-being of children and young people on a planned basis. You will be responsible for maintaining contacts with parents, schools, social workers, General Practitioners, wider family members and staff and managers from across the wider Service.

As The Deputy Manager will work to ensure the highest standards of care excellence and quality assure the care delivered against Ofsted’s Children’s homes regulations, Quality Standards, and any relevant legislation.

The Children’s residential service supports the most vulnerable children and families from our communities and requires a well organised committed individual to lead from the front ensuring our children are safeguarded and managed in an individual bespoke way.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing a safe and nurturing environment in which children experience quality of care from a highly skilled team, and where they are supported to enjoy and achieve and make good progress towards the goals identified in their individual care plans.
• Supervise and develop staff as individuals and as a team, to ensure that the purpose and management objectives of the homes are met, in line with Department policy.
• Foster the professional development of all staff; to assess training needs; to provide in-unit courses; to use external training resources.
• Providing effective leadership and management to continue our improvement journey at the Home and achieve at least a rating of Good at inspection.
• Building effective relationships with parents/carers and professionals across education, health, and social care so that there is effective collaboration across all settings for children, and that the Home plays an active role in supporting children to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ensuring that children and families are regularly consulted about their experiences at the Home and the care provided, and that their feedback is used to inform service developments.
• Leading, inspiring, and developing a committed staff team.

What do our teams like most about working for us:

• Other generous benefits including:
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase additional days, and which increases after 5- and 10-years’ service.
• Attractive defined benefit pension scheme with a market leading AVC option for additional retirement savings
• Discounted gym membership
• Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating-out, eating-in, travel, motoring and more.
• Salary sacrifice scheme, including Cycle to Work
• Wellbeing support, including an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support.
• Hybrid working
• Staff recognition and celebration events
• A supportive and enabling workplace with quality supervision from your manager.
• A comprehensive learning and development programme as part of your ongoing Continuing Professional Development
• Clear progression pathways

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The successful applicant will be required to register to the DBS Update Service to enable the Council to undertake rechecks throughout your employment.  The cost to register is £13 and can be claimed back upon commencement to the role but will not be refunded if you do not accept the offer of employment.

If you would like support with this application, an interview or interested in looking at any courses that could help with this position please get in touch with Get Oldham Working -  Get Oldham Working registration form - Oldham Council

NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our  Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).

Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

About Us:

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.  Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.  Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels. You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages  Working for Oldham

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Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy. 

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£36.65k per annum