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Job Description Deputy Manager Children and Young People

Role Summary

The role of Deputy Manager is to support the Registered Manager in the day to day running of the children’s home, including deputising for them as and when required. The key responsibilities will be to assist the Registered Manager in the management and development of the home and support staff to drive the delivery of an excellent quality service for the people Safe Support Ventures supports. In the manager’s absence you will have full responsibility and accountability for the running of the home.

You will ensure a consistently high standard of care in accordance with legislation, central government guidance, regulations and standards, and the policies and procedures of the company.

At all times the Deputy Manager’s behaviour, performance and conduct must promote a positive image of Safe Support Ventures that reflects Safe Support Ventures’s vision, mission and purpose.

You will be accountable to the Registered Manager

Our job descriptions are all written with the overall aims and objectives of Safe Support Ventures in mind:

Overall Aims and Objectives of Safe Support Ventures

Young people are placed with Safe Support Ventures living provision when they are at the stage where it is assessed that they need to develop independence skills and become increasingly self-reliant. Other reasons a young adult maybe placed with Safe Support Ventures are:

• Family and Placement breakdown: this includes birth and stepfamilies, foster placements and other residential placements.
• Young people with particular behaviour and/or emotional difficulties that either make it very difficult, or they choose not to live within a family setting at this time.
• Young people who have experienced homelessness and are deemed in need of support.
• Young people with refugee status who have come into the country unaccompanied and need a support system in place to become familiar with a new life in a new country.

Responsibilities

You will be required to carry out a range of duties within your role. The key responsibilities are detailed below but there will be other duties consistent with the role that you may be requested to undertake by your line manager.

The Children and Young People We Support

You will safeguard and promote the welfare of all children and young people in the home by being familiar with and aware of the children’s home’s safeguarding policy, procedures and guidelines and to adhere to them at all times.

Lead, exemplify and evaluate excellent practice. To ensure a high standard of practice within your staff teams while upholding the regulations of the Children's Homes Regulations 2015 job description.

Take part in the assessment process of potential new admissions to the home. This is inclusive of the emergency placement.

Monitor and revise young people’s care and placement plans ensuring the identified needs of the young people are being met and be accountable for the overall quality of these documents.

To bring to the attention of a senior colleague any matter for concern over the well-being, safety or safeguarding of a young person we support.

To ensure young people’s therapy programmes are completed and your staff team understands how to implement these and the impact of them for young people.

Manage and record young people’s meetings within the home.

Communicate consistently between parents and the home, making sure they are informed of all relevant information relating to their child.

Promote and implement Safe Support Ventures’s Equality and Diversity policies and procedures, ensuring that the children and young people are treated with respect, dignity, inclusion and equality.

Our Staff

• Ensure the effectiveness of staff through regular support and supervision, development opportunities and the application of HR policies.
• Coach, train and mentor staff up to Team Leader level to enable them to lead and deliver best practice.
• Promote a culture of continuous professional development for all, where learning and development activity is closely linked to individual, team and organisational priorities.
• Statutory and mandatory training and/or qualifications are achieved within agreed timeframes.
• Promote the health and safety of employees at work and of people supported through the implementation of Safe Support Ventures’s corporate Policy for Health, Safety and Welfare at Work in accordance with all relevant statutory requirements.
• To be accountable and take responsibility for applying your learning, training and skills to ensure staff support the children/young people in a way which embodies great interactions, through active support, using people’s preferred method of communication and to act as a role model with this.
• To ensure young people have regular social opportunities that are enriching and reflect their personal interests, and support them to participate in local communities.
• To ensure all new staff are managed and supported using the guidance and documentation in their probation induction and objectives.
• To ensure that all staff have personal development plans that identify and address areas of training needs and support their continued professional development,
• To ensure that all staff undertake all required and mandatory training and that they also have opportunities for further CPD as agreed through appraisal or supervision sessions.
• To model excellent support and to use and embed Positive Behaviour Support.
• To provide a lead contribution to the development of Positive Behaviour Plans ensuring that these plans are understood and followed by the staff team.
• To maintain professional boundaries at all times with all young people, staff, visitors and families.
• To act promptly, fairly and clearly on any issue involving poor practice from a staff member, ensuring this is clearly documented, with agreed actions. You will review and as necessary consult with HR
• Be involved in the recruitment, interviewing and induction of staff alongside the manager.
• Attend and contribute to children and young people’s reviews when required.
• Guide children/young people throughout their placement and in transitions to and from the residential care environment holistically and in line with the quality standards.
• Assist and deputise for the manager in all aspects of residential care at the home.
• Take on on-call duties outside of working hours in support of the home dealing with situations in line with children’s homes regulations and company procedures.
• Attend and participate in regular staff meetings, and chair meetings in the absence of the home manager.

Quality

• Take a leading role in supporting the achievement and maintenance of compliance whilst striving for excellence or “Outstanding” with both internal standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Oversee record keeping and take part in the regular auditing of the children and young people’s records, responding to any issues requiring further action, including those identified at reviews.
• Need to have or be enrolled in a Level 3 Health and Social Care course or above,
• To be fully aware of, and work to, the Children’s Home Regulations, Quality Standards, Ofsted inspection framework and all other relevant legislation and guidance.
• You will develop high quality evidence against all nine of Ofsted’s quality standards for the house which will demonstrate compliance across these standards. You will ensure that this evidence is well-presented and up to date at all times.
• Ensure all staff that do not have their Level 3 Diploma for working with Children and Young People are registered onto this qualification with the L&D Team within the appropriate time frame. You are required to manage, support and mentor staff completing their qualifications. If a staff member is not on course to complete the qualification within the set timeframe, work with them through an action plan.
• Ensure consistent communication between interested agencies/funding authorities and the home, making sure that associated professionals are informed of all relevant information.
• Make sure the environment and building are clean, tidy, hygienic and presentable, ensuring any faults or remedial maintenance issues are dealt with effectively.
• Take responsibility for ensuring all training classed as mandatory to be up to date and to undertake any training identified as necessary in order to carry out the role effectively.
• Ensure that all aspects of the service provided meets the quality standards and complies with the Children’s Homes Regulations.
• Ensure the home is maintaining compliance to the standards and philosophy of care as outlined in the Statement of Purpose
• Ensure that Health and Safety regulations are met and that fire regulations, risk assessments and individual plans including behaviour management are adhered to at all times.

Sustainability

• With the Registered Manager, monitor and control expenditure and ensure that there are robust budget controls in place.
• Carry out all duties in accordance with Safe Support Ventures policies, procedures and practice with particular regard to Health and Safety at Work, Health and Hygiene, Child Protection and Equal Opportunities.
• Work in a professional manner with all external stakeholders and regulators, specifically Ofsted and other regulatory bodies inspecting the home. In the Registered Manager’s absence, manage and lead on any inspection process.
• Ensure effective and positive liaison with the sponsoring Local Authority as set out in the home and local authority contract, ensuring that you are professional in your approach.
• To promote the practice of working in partnership with children and young people, their families, other staff within the children’s homes, and other agencies, in order to meet the needs of the young people (health, well-being, spiritual, moral, social, emotional and cultural).
• To promote a culturally inclusive ethos which actively values and promotes diversity, unity and community cohesion in order to support young people to become successful citizens.
• With the Registered Manager ensure that all actions resulting from the Regulation 44 inspections are followed up and completed. In liaison with the Registered Manager, lead and have oversight of the Regulation 44 inspections.
• Between £27,000 to £32,000 per year depending upon experience.
• There will be annual KPI bonuses.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £13.00-£18.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Benefits:

• Company events

Schedule:

• Night shift
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Application question(s):

• Do you have 1 years deputy manager experinced in a Ofsted registered Children Home?

Experience:

• Residential Children Home Deputy Manager: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 24/09/2024