Deputy Manager

Deputy Manager

Kisimul Group Limited

Salary: £37,998.79 – £44,479.23

Due to current UK Government guidelines, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. Sponsorship is restricted to eligible colleagues who are already employed by the organisation. Children’s Homes positions are not eligible for sponsorship.

As a Deputy Manager, you will be key in helping your team to support young people with complex needs. This is a challenging role, but the rewards are incomparable to any other job. You will be working in an environment where the little things that you do every day could have life‑changing results. Your ambition for the young people you support will help them take steps to fulfil their potential.

The Deputy Manager will be part of the Senior Management Team with a lead responsibility for management, support and direction of the service. This post involves responsibility for the establishment in the absence of the Registered Manager of the service as well as supporting the Registered Manager in the day‑to‑day running of the service, ensuring that the regulatory requirements are met through the Statement of Purpose and that this statement meets regulatory requirements and is implemented, evaluated and reviewed within the appropriate timescales.

• A competitive salary
• Genuine support from peers and management
• Coaching, training and development
• Future career opportunities in a growing organisation
• Life assurance
• Free car parking

• To ensure that good quality working relationships are built and maintained between residents and staff at all levels and to ensure that withdrawal from these relationships is addressed.
• To provide leadership, guidance and management, communicating a clear sense of direction that staff understand and can relate to in the aims and purposes of the service and the organisation.
• Work with the Registered Manager to ensure that appropriately qualified and experienced staff are recruited in accordance with Company policy and Quality standards.
• To ensure that all staff for whom you are responsible are putting policy into practice and are either performing to expected standards or that you are/have been actively addressing issues effectively with clear audit trails.
• To maintain high standards of care and to gear the running of the service so that it is focused but sufficiently flexible to meet the expressed needs of individual residents as necessary, including participating in and undertaking regular audits and reviews of the quality systems as necessary.
• To create and develop links between the home and the local community so that young people can play a full and appropriate part in the life of the community.
• To be responsible for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of individuals’ care, life‑long learning/recreational plans to ensure that each young person’s needs over the full 24 hours of each day are correctly assessed and that all such plans are directly relevant and appropriate to each resident’s needs in line with their EHC plan.
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with parents and other family members, social workers, establishment staff and other professionals with a concern for the young people’s needs, such as general practitioners, psychologists and occupational therapists.

• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification in child/adult care/support.
• At least 2 years of significant management/supervisory experience in a care setting within the past 5 years at a competent level.
• Proven experience, at least 4 years, of working effectively with people with learning disabilities and/or special needs.
• A good knowledge of good management practice including relevant aspects of employment issues and legislation, health and safety and anti‑discrimination.
• Knowledge of learning disabilities and/or special needs, including recent developments and person‑centred planning.
• A good knowledge of the Quality Standards, relevant statutory regulations and how they apply within the working practice, including the inspection process.
• Ability to attend work punctually and reliably including…