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Are you a passionate and experienced care professional looking to take the next step in your career?
NonStop Care is seeking a compassionate, resilient, and motivated Deputy Manager to support the running of a new 3-bed residential children's home for young people with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) in West London.
As Deputy Manager, you will work closely with the Registered Manager to lead a dedicated team of support workers. You will play a vital role in ensuring the emotional, social, and physical well-being of the young people in our care, while maintaining high standards of care, safeguarding, and compliance.
Duties & Responsibilities
To meet the needs of children through:
- Ensuring that each young person has an allocated key worker
- Ensuring that each member of staff is aware of each child's relevant plan's and their responsibilities for its implementation
- Carrying out the role of "on-call manager" to provide OOH support for the home, on a rota basis
- Attending childcare reviews and planning meetings to provide information and achieve best outcomes for young people
- Undertaking direct work with young people and acting as an appropriate role model
- Assist in developing systems in which young people are consulted about the quality of care they receive
- Maintaining accurate written records to record information and enable regular monitoring and evaluation to take place
- Working in partnership with parents, carers and other professionals to safeguard and promote the welfare of young people.
- Chairing children's meetings and facilitating consultation with young people generally
- Acting as an appropriate adult
What we Offer:
- Competitive salary- up to £40k
- Training and development opportunities
- 28 days annual leave - including bank holidays
- Promotion opportunities for highly skilled and motivated staff
- Flexible working hours
- Regular supervisions and the opportunity to shadow roles you may be interested in within the organisation.
- Pension scheme
Requirements:
- Secondary education with a good standard of literacy and numeracy
- Diploma L3 Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
- Willingness to complete Diploma L5 L&M in H&SC
- Knowledge of CHR 2015 and the QS
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities/ADP issues
- Knowledge of the Children Act and other relevant legislation
- Team-building skills
- Supervision skills
- Ability to manage teams effectively
- Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing
- Understanding the needs of looked-after children including managing challenging behaviour.
Ready to make a difference?If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding role that allows you to make a real difference to the lives of vulnerable young people, we would love to hear from you. Telephone interviews will take place as and when strong candidates become available.
If you're interested, please submit your CV to . Be sure to do so quickly as open places are filling up fast and there is a limited number of vacancies.
Our dedicated and supportive teams put children at the centre of everything they do. We have a range of roles available meaning there is always the opportunity to progress and take on a new challenge.
If this isn't a role is not quite right for you but you would like to have a conversation about the other roles that are available, please contact, and ask to speak to Bradley, as we specialise in Health & Social Care recruitment across the UK.
We are NonStop, a leading provider of staffing solutions throughout Europe and now also in the US. We're passionate about connecting talent with opportunity and work non-stop to support our clients in hiring the best talent for their teams. Feel free to pop over to our website, NonStop Consulting, for more information, to browse all our roles, or to let us know how we can help you.
