Deputy Manager – Children’s Home
Starling Recruitment are delighted to support an established Children’s Residential provider with high standards of care and support to recruit for a Deputy Manager. This will be to work in a settled 4 bed Children’s Home and create a nurturing home for children who have experienced trauma.
This client is committed to providing positive experiences for their young people to thrive and provide psychological support on an ongoing basis. The home is high specification with it’s own large garden.
This company value their staff and you can expect support from the experienced Manager.
This is a Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm role however you may be needed to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Duties include:
- Management of Residential Childcare Workers
- Ensuring paperwork is all complete and up to date
- Managing the home in the Registered Managers absence
- Building effective working relationships with all other relevant professionals, families and the young people
- Assisting with Ofsted requirements
- Adherence and implementing company policy and procedure
You will have
- Previous experience of managing residential childcare workers within a children’s home
- NVQ 3 Residential Childcare
- Ideally NVQ 5 or desire to work towards it
- Desire to create a stable, happy and nurturing home
- Understanding of the various therapeutic approaches to childcare
- Knowledge of ofsted requirements
This is a great opportunity to utilise your skills working with children to create an exceptional home and would suit an experienced Deputy Manager or Team Leader looking for the next stage in their career.
Please apply or contact me for a private and confidential conversation, I’d love to discuss this with you!
Starling Recruitment is a Newcastle based, specialist recruitment company dedicated to placing Registered Managers across the North East. We cover North Yorkshire to Northumberland and have detailed geographical as well as sector knowledge and experience as we have placed into Health & Social Care positions in the region since 2001. This work continues with many clients and more to bring you an established client base of tried and tested organisations who adhere to the highest standards of care.
We pride ourselves on providing outstanding customer service to candidates to confidentially support your search for a new role and introduce you to relevant organisations in both Adult and Children’s Services. We adhere to the Recruitment & Employment confederation standards of practice to ensure we operate in an ethical way at all time. We act as an employment agency in relation to this role.
