Deputy Home Manager

Aspris Childrens Services Limited; Markfield; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in children's services is seeking a passionate Deputy Manager to join their supportive team. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of vulnerable young people, providing them with a nurturing and stable environment. You will be responsible for overseeing a small staff team, ensuring effective communication and care programs are implemented. With a commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, this role is perfect for someone looking to grow in the field of residential childcare. If you possess resilience, compassion, and strong organizational skills, this could be the rewarding career path for you.

Benefits

Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme

Comprehensive induction

Ongoing training and career progression

Pension scheme

Paid for enhanced DBS

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in residential childcare is essential.
• Ability to demonstrate values and transferable skills.

Responsibilities

• Support and care for young people with emotional and behavioral difficulties.
• Oversee staff team and manage shift patterns.

Skills

Resilience

Communication

Organisation

Caring

Attentiveness

Education

Level 3 qualification in Children and Young People

Willingness to study towards Level 5 Diploma

Job description

Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?

If you would like to build a career that gives you a genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!

Children's home Ibstock are recruiting for a Deputy Manager. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Deputy Manager to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support and care for our young people and be responsible for a small staff team.

Our benefits include:

1. Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
2. Comprehensive induction
3. Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
4. Pension scheme
5. Paid for enhanced DBS
6. Wellbeing support
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. And more!

Our home is a detached property set in a rural location on the outskirts of a Leicestershire village, with access to Burton and Midland's Road network. The home provides a nurturing, supportive, structured, and stable environment, on a 24-hour basis, for up to three young people aged up to 18 with emotional, developmental and/or behavioural difficulties.

Due to the location of this role, applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

As part of Aspris Children's Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills, and life experience, and in return, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

If you can demonstrate the values needed for a role within residential childcare, we will give you all the training and support you need to become a dynamic Deputy Manager.

A Level 3 qualification in Children and Young People is essential for this role and you should be willing to study towards the Level 5 Diploma. The ideal candidate will have experience and the following characteristics to be successful in this role:

1. Resilience: We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
2. Communication: Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
3. Organisation: Overseeing the effective implementation of care and independence programmes for our young people through the effective line management of the staff team, and manage shift patterns on a rota basis.
4. Caring: Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
5. Attentive: No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Interviews will be looked at being booked for week of 20th January 2025.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want to progress your career in Children services, Aspris will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.

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