Assistant Manager - Complex Needs Children's Home

The Together Trust; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sleep-in allowance £107.60 per shift

Weekend rate 1.25x (£23.10ph)

Annual leave 27 days + 8 bank holidays

Job summary

The Together Trust is seeking an Assistant Manager for a Short Stay Children’s Home in Romiley, Stockport. You will help manage OFSTED compliance, staff development and a safe, nurturing environment for children with Autism and complex needs.

This full-time role involves leadership across the team, recruitment, and budget oversight, with enhanced sleep-ins and weekend pay. Commitment to safeguarding and professional development is essential.

Qualifications

• Significant residential care experience and supervisory experience.
• Knowledge of National Care Standards.
• Ability to organize and manage planning and implementation of developments within time constraints.

Responsibilities

• Support development of leadership style and organisational culture focusing on wellbeing of individuals.
• Assist with recruitment and retention of staff to ensure a safe, nurturing environment.
• Contribute to management and monitoring of budgets for efficient resource use.
• Ensure flexible, well-planned duties respecting Children and Young People as individuals.

Skills

Residential care experience

Supervisory experience

Leadership

Communication skills

IT skills

Driving licence

Education

QCF level 3/4 Children’s Families & Young People Practitioner

Tools

IT systems

Job description

Assistant Manager - Complex Needs Children's Home

Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People?

The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

We are looking for an Assistant Manager for a Short Stay Children’s Home in Romiley, Stockport.This is an exciting opportunity as an Assistant Manager as you will helping to manage all aspects of OFSTED compliance and staff development, with a focus on the wellbeing of the Young People and the families that we support.

The Children’s Home support young people and their families, providing short term respite. All the young people that we support in this service have Autism and Learning Difficulties as well as other complex needs. You will work with your team to provide a safe and nurturing home for the young people that you support; we provide compassionate, nurturing care for children and families who need a short break so that they can rest and re-charge.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

We are looking for an

Assistant Manager who can complete the full range of tasks required.

Location: Romiley, Stockport

Hours: 37.5 hours - Full Time / Permanent

Salary: £36,060 per year (£18.48ph)

Enhancements: Sleep-in allowance of £107.60 per sleep shift

Weekend hours paid at time and a quarter (£23.10ph)

On call payments of

£40 – Monday to Friday, £80 for

The Together Trust was ranked in the Financial Times Best Employers list 2026

We also offer….

Annual leave– 27 days’ holiday plus 8 bank holidays, rising to 30 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.

Generous pension scheme– a minimum company pension contribution of 4%.

Occupational sick payand family-friendly policies, including

enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.

Reward and Discount platform– offering discounts on high street shopping, travel and insurance.

Generous death in service benefit– up to 6 times basic salary.

• Eligibility to apply for a

Blue Light Card.

• Proud to be a

real living wage employer.

Refer a friend scheme– be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.

training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.

Long service awards– vouchers and extra holiday.

• Promotion of

wellbeing across the organisation, including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and a free weekly yoga session, in person or online.

• Access to our

Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults in your household.

Inclusive networksfor colleagues to join if they’d like to (Disability & Neurodiversity Action Group, Race Equality Network, Proud Together (LGBTQ+ group), Together for Men, Women Together).

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work / life balance, and this something you can’t put a value on.

About the position….

• You will support the development of a style of leadership and organisational culture to ensure open and participatory management and practice, promoting the well-being of individuals and a positive image of residential care.
• Participate to establish an enabling culture, and effectively manage a home which enables children and young people to achieve optimal outcomes in a safe and secure environment
• To actively assist with the selection, recruitment and retention of staff to ensure a safe, nurturing and positive environment.
• Have responsibility for development and motivation of teams, individuals and self to enhance performance.
• Contribute to the management and monitoring of budgets to achieve efficient and effective use of resources and delivery of a high-quality home.
• You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the Children and Young People as individuals.

What can you bring to the team….?

An essential for this role is a QCF level 3 or 4 Children’s Families and Young Peoples Practitioner Qualification or equivalent (see job description).

• Significant residential care experience and supervisory experience.

(This needs to be 2 years practice out of the past 5 years).

• Ability to organise and manage the planning and implementation of new developments within time constraints.
• Knowledge of the National Care Standards.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. You’ll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals.
• An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
• A good standard of written English and IT skills would be essential; you will be writing reports and keep record of the Children and Young Peoples progress.
• Transporting children / young people to an activity or school is a requirement. A driving licence that has been held for 12 months would be desirable.

We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicant must be able to evidence that (1) they have the right to work in the UK without additional approval for more than 20 hours each week throughout the year and (2) they have an eligible residency status for the purposes of the apprenticeship funding rules. In most cases this will mean that the individual needs to show that they have been ''ordinarily resident'' in particular countries (including the UK) at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.