Job Title: Deputy Manager (Children's Home)
Salary: Up to £39,000
Contracted Hours: Full Time
Location: Ilford, Essex
About our Client:
We are pleased to be supporting an OFSTED Children's Residential Care home as they search for a Deputy Manager for a brand new service. With a key focus on allowing their service users to flourish, they are looking for an experienced Senior Therapeutic Carer or Deputy Manager to join their team.
What benefits are offered as a Deputy Manager?
- Maternity and Sick pay
- Career development pathways
- A full induction & training program
- Generous annual leave allocation
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free Blue Light Card
MAIN DUTIES
To engage in reflective practice and work in accordance with our psychoanalytic and group relations model and integrate this into practice.
To work in accordance to and to support the Therapeutic Home Manager in ensuring compliance Policies and Procedures, the Children's Homes Regulations (2015) including the Quality Standards, Therapeutic Community Standards and also the Therapeutic Placement Plans for the children.
To be aware that it is through the children's direct experiences of relationships with caring consistent and thoughtful adults that they will be able to both change, develop and grow. The task is therefore, as adults, is to actively provide the children with this type of relationship. (Therefore we ask for a commitment of at least 2 years for this role)
To be interested, responsive and understanding to the children's behaviours
To ensure the children are appropriately safeguarded
To be instrumental in overseeing the development
EXPERIENCE
At least two years of childcare experience.
Experience of caring for children in a residential setting.
Experience of working with physically & emotionally challenging behaviour.
Must have a level 3 in Diploma in Residential Childcare or a level 5 is desirable.
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