Children’s Home Deputy Manager

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Deputy Manager to work full-time based in a Children’s home located in Earley, Reading, RG6.

The salary for this permanent Deputy Manager job is up to £40,000, plus a bonus, depending on experience and successful Ofsted inspections.

Main Duties:

• Effectively manage staff, including regular supervision meetings and annual appraisals
• Monitor staff performance and follow due process if there are concerns regarding any staff members’ performance
• Facilitate regular team briefings, meetings, and training sessions, ensuring the regular cascading of information
• Manage a budget for the provision, ensuring best value and appropriate records are kept and passed as required to the finance lead
• Ensure appropriate and personalized target setting for all children, with the impact reflected in clear reports for the local authority, which are sent on a regular basis
• Manage health & safety arrangements across the provision, including first aid arrangements, health and safety checks, risk management plans, risk assessments, and any other requirement falling within health and safety legislation
• Lead on and model a range of behavioural intervention strategies based on the assessment of a child’s behaviour, including the development of Positive Behaviour Support plans
• Comply with diversity & equality policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote the principles of these policies amongst colleagues, service users, and other members of the community
• Work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and perform any other reasonable duties as required

Requirements of this Job:

• Level 5 Diploma – Leadership and management in Children and Young People’s residential services or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience working within 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 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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 played a significant role in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards, as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).

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.