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Deputy Manager – Children’s Home

Swindon – Free Parking

This is an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Home Deputy Manager to join the company. This is a progressive and trauma informed group of children’s homes in a residential home, specializing in providing care for young people with learning difficulties and emotional behavioral issues.

The role

* Working in a beautiful and comfortable, homely home with an emphasis on providing a safe environment with strength-based care and emotional attachment to all children.

* A culture of emotional warmth parenting

* Reflective and progressive ways of working for all staff with a warm and welcoming environment

* This role is a leadership role, responsible for assisting the Manager in the day to day running of the Home

* Ensuring all children and staff are sufficiently safeguarded, supervised and mentored

* Managing team members

* Taking an empathetic and engaging approach to working in partnership with young people, their families, professionals, and other agencies, to meet the needs of young people

* Training staff members

* To ensure paperwork in the Home is accurate, reflective and evidences the progress the children make within the home

* Producing paperwork

* Care plans, risk assessments and behavior support plans

* Health and Safety regulations are adhered

Essential for the role

* Must have experience in Residential Children’s social care

* Minimum of 12 months experience, ideally as a senior support worker or similar or been a Deputy Manager in a Residential Home

* An understanding of Trauma informed care and therapeutic background

* Hold a level 3 NVQ diploma in Residential Childcare

Salary and Benefits

* £30K to £33K per annum dependent upon experience

* Paid Bonus on top of annual salary

* Pension

* Free Parking

* Paid sleep ins are £63 per night, which included at one per week gives an average deputy salary of £34.276

* Shift patterns will include sone on-shift working 07.30 am to 21.30 pm (two shifts) and some admin shifts 08.30 am to 16.30 pm

* Staff wellness programme including wellness Wednesdays

* Day off for Birthday, on top of annual holiday entitlement

* Fun wellbeing activities

* Opportunity to complete NVQ level 5 if not already enrolled