Deputy Children’s Home Manager

About us

We are a family-run company, opening a LD Residential Children’s Home in the Tile Hill area of Coventry. Our aim is to create a safe, happy, healing, family environment for 4 children between the ages of 8-17 years with learning difficulties, who are unable to live with their families and may have experienced various trauma.

We are looking for a team of caring adults who can be understanding and compassionate for the children we are caring for, as well as the resilience and strength that it takes to manage the behaviours that can come from experiencing trauma and having learning difficulties.

The role

The Deputy Manager for the children’s home will support the Registered Manager in leading and managing the children’s home according to the ethos and approach of the organisation, ensuring that outcomes and high-quality care are delivered according to the home’s statement of purpose.

We are acting-parents for these children, and our most important role is to be the stable, emotional support for them – for them to have adults that they can trust to act in their best interest and understand them. We want our children to feel safe, supported and cared for and the Deputy Manager is essential in achieving this.

Duties include:

·       Ensure residential workers are meeting the needs of children/young people in accordance with their care plans.

·       Ensure the quality of shift handover meetings, records, and other residential duties is in line with best-practice standards and the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards for Children’s Homes.

·       Ensure the home’s ethos is embedded in the shifts and that children/young people are involved in the day-to-day running of the service.

·       Ensure the teamwork meets the needs of children/young people from diverse backgrounds under the legislation, policy, and best practice standards.

·       Take responsibility for overseeing safeguarding children/young people and supporting the team to reduce the children’s/young people’s risks.

·       Ensure children/young people access services that meet their education, social, emotional, mental health, and well-being needs.

·       Plan and deliver the service and its programs to meet the needs of children/young people.

·       Plan the rota and shift presence to ensure the needs of children/young people are being met.

·       Monitor children’s/young people’s progress

·       Guide the team to ensure service delivery.

·       Ensure a social inclusion focus is embedded within services.

·       Take part in on-call arrangements.

·       Supervise and support the development of the staff team in line with their statutory training requirements and continuous professional development (CPD).

·       Ensure staff are inducted and briefed on working with children/young people care planning systems and any programmes for positive care.

·       Ensure the home follows health, safety and fire precautions and procedures.

·       Ensure staff and children adhere to the home’s ICT policies.

·       Ensure quality monitoring and health and safety assessments are conducted, and action plans are implemented.

·       Ensure effective risk assessment and personal safety procedures are in place to protect staff and children/young people under organisational policies and procedures and keep them under regular review.

·       Ensure care planning, key working, safeguarding, incidents, health, education, and activities recording is completed in the required timeframe and to the required standard.

Requirements

Essential

·       Level 3 diploma in Children and Young People

·       Aged 21 or over (for statutory reasons)

·       Full driving licence

·       Excellent written and oral communication skills

·       Computer literate

·       2 Years experience in a residential children’s home setting

·       Experience working with children with learning difficulties

Desirable

·       Experience working as a Deputy Manager in a residential children’s home setting

·       Completed or willingness to work towards Level 5 diploma in Leadership and Management

Shifts and Pay

As a Deputy Manager, you would be required to complete 4 sleep-ins a month as well as be available to cover shifts. The shifts will either be:

08:00 – 23:00    or      08:00 – 23:00 sleep (finishing at 10:30am the following morning)

The remainder of your hours will be made up by 9:00-17:00 days.

Pay rate: £28k-£32k (depending on experience and qualifications)

Download below application form and email a completed application form and CV to admin@rockhousing.co.uk