Deputy Children's Home Manager

at  Empower Family Group

REQUIREMENTS

• Full driving license
• NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare
• Desirable - NVQ Level 5 in Leadership & Management or working towards
• Experience of being a Children’s Residential Support Worker or senior post holder seeking career advancementDesirable - experience in supervising a team.

JOB ROLE:

As a Deputy manager, you’ll be based within the home to support the staff team and young people in the provision of a stable, structured, and therapeutic environment. You will work closely with the manager and staff team to ensure that they work closely with the children and young people who live there by being nurturing, listening, and encouraging. You will take the lead on shift to ensure that the values of organisation are embodied, ensuring the effective implementation of care plans and person-centred care, as well as taking a lead role in developing and updating the key documents, whilst role modelling and supporting colleagues. It is essential that you are a supportive, driven person who displays patience, kindness, and leadership skills that enable you to role model a passion for empowering young people to achieve their full potential. You will be expected to work a mixture of early and late shifts as agreed with the home manager – amounting to 2/3 late shifts per week and one weekend day per calendar month. Expectations to support in covering shortfalls alongside the home manager.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Share and embody the company ethos and values at all times in your practice.
• To fully understand, contribute to, and implement the homes Statement of Purpose
• Support the manager in practices that promote the individuals’ care plans. These should reflect their wishes and changing needs including communication and independence skills.
• To provide child focused practices such as activities, shopping, meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, and personal care tasks: bathing, cutting fingernails, using the toilet
• To support the service users in an appropriate professional manner in all aspects of their lives, be this personally, emotionally, physically, socially, or vocationally
• To support people to maintain relationships with their family and friends.
• To understand and respect things which are important to service users and colleagues.
• To encourage service users to make choices and decisions for themselves and support them to do new things in a way that keeps them safe, but does not allow concerns about safety to stop them doing the things they want to do.
• To be flexible in your approach and work for the benefit of the service users and colleaguesTo work sleep shifts or waking nights if required to do so.