Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children’s Home Deputy Manager to work full time based in a Children’s home in South Croydon.
The salary for this permanent Children’s Home Deputy Manager job is up to £41,000
Main Duties:
- To ensure that services and support are provided in a Child centred way, as part of the therapeutic community practice framework
- To contribute to the overall development of the services, and to ensure compliance with regulation
- The promotion of the therapeutic community within the home, supporting both the children and staff members to invest in the community in the home
- To assist with the safer recruitment of staff within the Home in conjunction with the Responsible Individual and Registered Manager where appropriate
- To supervise staff in line with regulation and the homes SOP
- To maintain the homes Statement of Purpose and always ensure the home functions in line with this
- To Contribute to individual staff development by way of their personal development plans, “in house" training programmes, and external training
- To Implement a rota system that ensures the most effective use of staff to always support the needs of the children
- Actively promote and maintain a close working partnership with parents/carers and other significant people in the lives of children, to promote their best interests and ensure positive outcomes
- To ensure that staff are familiar with and adhere to the care plans as agreed for the children in the home
- To ensure that guidelines for the administration and safe keeping of Medication are made available to all members of staff and that these are adhered to
- To be deputise for the registered manager for aspects of day-to-day operational management of the home
Requirements of this job:
- Level 5 Leadership and Management in Children’s Residential qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience working within at supervisory experience in Children’s residential care
- Ability to show leadership skills
- Experience of managing budgets
- Direct involvement in Ofsted inspections
Contact:
This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
