Park Blue Homes has an exciting opportunity for a Children’s Home Deputy Manager to join our company in Chippenham.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to join a progressive and trauma informed group of Children’s Homes with a focus on upholding the values and guidelines of a Therapeutic Community. The home is a three bed residential home specialising in providing care for young people with learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties.
Salary: £35,000 per annum depending on experience, plus bonuses, pension, and other benefits. There will be one contracted sleep per week in conjunction with this role, which brings the actual salary to £38, 276 per annum. 28 days annual leave plus 3 paid wellness shifts per year. There will be other benefits for this role including a mobile phone. Paid sleep ins are £63/night which included at one per week.
As a Deputy Manager you will receive Ofsted bonuses ( £250 per inspection ). You will also receive Full Occupancy bonuses from £50 per child at the home per month.
Shift patterns will include some on-shift working 07.30-21.30 (two shifts) and some administrative shifts 08.30-16.30

· To be responsible for the assisting the manager in the management, co-ordination, and development of a range of quality therapeutic services for young people that live at our Home.
· To ensure the Home exceeds all standards as stated in the Children’s Home Regulations 2015 and all other legislation relevant to the therapeutic care of our children.
· To promote relationships as central to the working practice of our Homes. Taking an empathetic and engaging approach to working in partnership with young people, their families, professionals, and other agencies, in order to meet the needs of young people.
· To provide effective, empathetic, and dynamic leadership and to coordinate the staff team ensuring that the companies policies and procedures are effectively implemented. To lead by example and be a role model for the team members and children.
· To promote team development and effective team working. To understand the impacts of vicarious trauma and how this can affect the internal workings of the team. To promote the companies staff wellbeing programme.
· To be involved in reflective practise ensuring that team members and those around the child are reflective of their work encouraging them to integrate and uphold our therapeutic thinking.
· To ensure that all team members have meaningful supervision and be confident in their ability to encourage team members to think about how therapeutic approaches can be applied in their practical and paperwork.
· To identify those that may need support and have the ability to Implement this to support their team.
· To be responsible for quality inductions for their staff team, to devote time and effort to each new staff member ensuring they feel effective and confident in their roles. To be committed to organising and implementing a robust therapeutic training package for every staff member and to hold each person accountable for their role in the therapeutic support model.
· To ensure the paperwork in the Home is accurate, reflective and evidences the progress the children make within the Home. This role will need to be able to formulate and implement some paperwork from scratch such as Care Plans, Risk Assessments and Behaviour Support Plans.
· To ensure that all Health and Safety Regulations, including fire, medication, vehicles and all premises are followed in accordance with Park Blue Homes’s policies, procedures and practices.
· To ensure that all finance budgets, control, administration and records comply with Park Blue Ltd’s procedures.
· To promote and implement the company’s policies and procedures and ensuring that they are attachment based and trauma informed.