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Cityworx are recruiting for a Deputy Manager in partnership with a leading childrens care provider. The home is a 4 bed property located in a picturesque village, the last Ofsted key inspection rated this home as GOOD.

The home is registered for four children and young people and is much sought after. The Home has provided a sound home environment for particularly long-standing placements.

The Deputy Manager will assist the Registered Manager in the management of the home including the day to day running of the home.

The Deputy Manager will foster high morale and team spirit amongst the staff team and will be required to build positive relationships with the local community, all with the view to ensure to create a warm, homely, and caring environment within the home for both individual children and young people and the home as a whole.

The Deputy Manager will lead the home in the absence of the Registered Manager, it is therefore important that they know the role of the Registered Manager in addition to their own.
General Duties and Responsibilities
Ensure residential workers are meeting the needs of children 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 are involved in the dayto-day running of the service.
Ensure the teamwork meets the needs of children from diverse backgrounds under the
legislation, policy, and best practice standards.
Attend weekly managers meetings at Head Office.
Attend monthly managers meetings.
Hold team meetings as and when required.
Take responsibility for overseeing safeguarding children and supporting the team to reduce
the children’s risks.
Ensure children access services that meet their health, education, social, emotional, mental
health, and well-being needs.
Plan and deliver the service and its programs to meet the needs of children.
Plan the rota and shift presence to ensure the needs of children are being met.
Monitor children’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 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 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.
Lead shifts and oversee staff management and supervision, care and placement planning,
safeguarding, communications, report writing and monitoring quality and compliance.
Ensure the staff team implements the statutory and organisational policies and procedures
and provide feedback to the Registered Manager on the effectiveness of all policies and
procedures.
Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, such as the Children’s Homes
(England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards for Children’s Homes, Children Act 1989,
Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, Data Protection Act 2018, and Health and
Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.

The above job specification is not exhaustive and a full more detailed description is available