Job Description & How to Apply Below
Role Details
Reports to:
Registered Manager
Accountable to:
Registered Manager, Responsible Individual and Registered Provider
Regulatory body:
Ofsted
Hours:
Full-time, with flexibility appropriate to a 24-hour residential service
Role Purpose
The Deputy Manager will work closely with the Registered Manager to provide safe, compassionate, consistent and therapeutically informed leadership within the home.
The postholder supports the day-to-day operation of the service, ensuring children receive high-quality care that promotes safety, emotional wellbeing, development and meaningful outcomes.
The Deputy Manager will model professional practice and help ensure the home’s values, therapeutic approach and safeguarding culture are evident in everyday care. They will support compliance with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, the Quality Standards, the Statement of Purpose, safeguarding requirements and organisational policies.
Key Responsibilities
Therapeutic Leadership and Practice
* Support the embedding of the home’s therapeutic model throughout everyday residential care.
* Work with the Registered Manager and therapist or clinical professional to translate agreed recommendations and therapeutic objectives into practical strategies.
* Reinforce trauma-informed, attachment-aware and relationship-based practice through shift leadership, handovers, supervision, reflective discussions and review of records.
* Ensure therapeutic recommendations are implemented, monitored and evidenced, identifying gaps or inconsistencies in practice and recording.
Safeguarding Leadership
* Promote a culture in which safeguarding concerns are recognised, reported and acted upon promptly.
* Respond appropriately to disclosures, allegations, missing episodes, exploitation, unsafe relationships, online harm, bullying, self-harm, abuse and emerging risks.
* Escalate concerns through the appropriate safeguarding procedures, including to the Responsible Individual, Registered Provider or relevant external safeguarding route where necessary.
* Ensure children’s welfare takes precedence over the reputation, convenience or commercial interests of the home.
Leadership of the Staff Team
* Provide a calm, visible and consistent management presence, promoting professionalism, accountability and reflective practice.
* Provide direction during shifts and periods of delegated management responsibility and challenge unsafe, inappropriate or inconsistent practice.
* Contribute to induction, probation, supervision, appraisal, competency assessment, training, team meetings and performance management.
* Ensure staffing pressures or concerns about retention never prevent unsafe practice from being addressed.
Children’s Experiences, Voice and Progress
* Know the children living in the home and understand their individual needs, strengths, risks, wishes and plans.
* Support individualised care that promotes emotional and physical health, education, identity, positive relationships, interests, participation and independence.
* Understand the progress each child is making, the support provided by the staff team and the evidence demonstrating outcomes.
Care Planning, Risk Management and Admissions
* Support oversight of placement plans, risk assessments, behaviour support strategies, therapeutic recommendations and other care documentation.
* Ensure staff understand and follow plans, and that changes in risk, presentation or the effectiveness of strategies are communicated and reviewed promptly.
* Ensure key work is purposeful and connected to identified needs, wishes, risks and outcomes.
* Support the Registered Manager in considering referrals and proposed admissions, including compatibility,…
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