Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Deputy Team Manager to work full-time in a residential setting. The salary for this permanent position is £52,000 - £58,000 per annum.
35 Days Annual Leave (incl. Bank Holidays); Wellbeing Fund and Line Management Supervision, 1:1 External Therapeutic Support, & Group Therapeutic Thinking Space. The starting salary is dependent on experience and qualifications
Hours: Full-time (40hrs pw), working flexibly, including evenings and weekends, and participation in the Managers’ on-call rota. 6-month’s Probationary Period with a Salary Review at 6 months.
The Role:
- ·You will have considerable responsibility in supporting the Registered Manager and team of Practitioners - delivering exceptional care and support to our young female residents, and ensuring the highest level of compliance against Children’s Home Regulations and Ofsted Quality Standards. ·The Yvonne House Team are responsible for developing positive and empowering relationships with the young female residents (aged 14-17) at Yvonne House, helping them to:
1. Express their views, wishes and feelings.
2. Be protected from harm.
3. Lead healthy lifestyles and achieve the health and well-being outcomes recorded in their plans; take part in and benefit from a variety of sports, culture, and arts activities.
4. Make measurable progress towards achieving their educational potential.
5. Develop resilience and skills to live independently as an adult.
Experience and Qualifications:
- ·At least 5 years experience in Social Work in Children’s Services, i.e. child protection, care proceedings and looked-after children, the full range of social work tasks with children in need and their families.
- ·Experience in bringing together and co-ordinating the team around the child to ensure a multi-disciplinary approach to safeguarding, as well as Assessment, Planning, and Implementation.
- ·Ability to identify and address practice and performance issues and the learning and development needs of others.
- ·Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare or working towards it – we will support you to achieve this.
Knowledge and Skills:
- ·In-depth understanding of the issues, challenges and needs facing young people leaving care and how to meet them.
- ·Practical knowledge of tools, techniques and resources that can be used to support young people in areas including: CSE, DV, EET, life and self-care skills.
- ·Working knowledge of the emotional impact of frontline work with trauma and its implications. ·Working knowledge of relevant legislation including Safeguarding, Inclusion, Human Rights, H&S and GDPR.
- ·An ability to organise and prioritise your work, ensuring you manage your own time and plan your workload to meet deadlines and commitments – is essential
- ·Ability to facilitate a culture of self-advocacy and co-production and to have supported children and/or young people to have their voice heard.
- ·A champion for Inclusion, Diversity and Equality.
- ·A leader, intuitive, creative, flexible, approachable, resilient, able to manage and take care of your own needs. Able to think on your feet. Works with integrity, warmth and always shows consideration for others.
- ·The ability to understand issues form other’s viewpoints and build an atmosphere of trust and openness.
- ·Ability to inspire, enthuse and motivate young people, manage difficult conversations, and enable others to do the same.
- ·Ability to work flexible hours – including evenings and weekends.
- ·A good standard of numeracy and literacy with the ability to effectively communicate via email, Word and Excel and produce written reports.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
Contact:
This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, we are regretfully only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
