Assistant Manager - Complex Needs Children's Home

Together Trust Centre; Marple; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sleep-in allowance

Weekend pay enhancement

On-call payments

Annual leave 27+ days

Generous pension scheme

Sick pay and family-friendly policies

Discount platform

Death in service benefit

Blue Light Card eligibility

Real living wage employer

Refer a friend scheme

Training and development opportunities

Long service awards

Wellbeing support (yoga/mental health)

Employee Assistance Programme

Inclusive networks

Job summary

Together Trust is seeking an Assistant Manager for a Short Stay Children’s Home in Romiley, Stockport. The role focuses on OFSTED compliance, staff development and safeguarding, ensuring a safe, nurturing home for children and families with complex needs.

You will support leadership development, recruitment and retention, and manage budgets to deliver high-quality care within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• QCF Level 3/4 in Children’s Families and Young People’s Practitioner or equivalent.
• Residential care experience and supervisory experience (2 years in last 5 years).
• Knowledge of National Care Standards and safeguarding policies.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; liaising with staff, parents, and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Support development of leadership style and organisational culture.
• Manage a residential home to ensure safe, nurturing environment for children and young people.
• Assist with recruitment, retention and staff development.
• Contribute to budgeting and efficient use of resources for a high-quality home.
• Undertake duties flexibly to cover full range of tasks.

Skills

Residential care experience

Supervisory experience

Communication skills

Team leadership

Written English

Driving licence desirable

Education

QCF level 3 or 4 Children’s Families and Young People’s Practitioner Qualification

Tools

IT skills

Job description

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.

Position Details

• 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 weekends, and £120 for bank holidays

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 pay and 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.
• Comprehensive 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 networks for 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.

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.