Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Essex
Gims Care Solution Limited is looking for an exceptional and inspirational Children’s Home Deputy Manager to open and run our children’s home in the Essex area. Apply today to express your interest!
Salary & Benefits
- Enjoy a market-leading pay package of up to £36,000 per year including bonus, pension, and private healthcare (subject to medical fitness).
- Join a company that genuinely values and invests in its people for the long-term so they can do their best work.
- Play a pivotal role in starting a new home and developing best-in-class strategic and operational capabilities (we encourage fresh ways and new thinking).
- Help handpick an all-star team with core values of passion, togetherness, openness, and growth to go above and beyond for our children.
- We support our managers with an experienced leadership support, clinical supervision, and continuous training.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for supervising Residential Care Workers (RCW), Team Leader and other care staff at the site to ensure that all staff are compliant with Company protocols and OFSTED requirements
- Provide regular supervisions and appraisals for Residential Care Workers (RCW) and other relevant care staff in the team
- Effectively manage the care staff working in the team and to ensure their work is compliant with Company and OFSTED requirements
- Assist the Senior Management and Company HR in dealing with any potential concerns, disciplinaries or grievances which may arise from the care staff working in the team
- Assist the Senior Management in dealing with potential complaints from clients, their families, or the relevant public authorities as required, in full accordance with Company policies
- Provide a “secure base” for the young people under our care to reduce their anxieties and help them to explore and enjoy the world more; To monitor the progress of their secure base and evidence the emotional progress they have made
- Act as a key worker for a young person to ensure that the young person’s Care Plans are up-to-date and that all their care needs are being met. To provide positive role model and be able to offer advice guidance and assistance where appropriate
- Maintain a high quality of care and support which meets the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and cultural needs of the young people. Working in accordance with the guidelines from the 1989 Children’s Act, National Minimum Standards, Every Child Matters and any other relevant legislation
- Provide emotional and psychological support and help young people with any relationship issues they might be experiencing
- Provide advice, assistance and support to young people, to attend to their practical, physical and emotional needs
- Provide emotional support to our young clients at times of difficulties or stress
- Empower the young people under our care and facilitate their active involvement in the decision-making about their lives and future
- Encourage the young person to develop links with the community to attend offsite activities and expand their personal social network
- Provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment in which children/young people can feel secure and free from harm
- Establish positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
- Act as an appropriate role model and to work closely with them to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential
- Evaluate each client’s individual and person-specific needs and accommodates them accordingly
- Help young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct
- De-escalate in a professional manner challenging behaviours that may arise from our young clients
- Provide advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties
- Keep accurate records and providing written reports on the young people under our care, for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager
Requirements
- You should have a proven track record as a Deputy Manager in a ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ graded home and you should be able to demonstrably meet the abilities, values, and skills needed to thrive in this role.
- You will hold the Level 3 Diploma and working towards Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare.
- You will have a clean UK driving license.
- You will be resilient, highly organised, thoughtful, and prepared to go above and beyond for our tribe.
- You will be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the home including some weekends and evenings.
- Prior experience in social care work supporting young people
- Prior experience working in a management role in care work
- Relevant professional qualifications in care work
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Capacity for handling stressful environments, meeting tight deadlines and dealing with our young clients’ challenging behaviours
Salary: £32,000.00 – £36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
Schedule:
- Shift Pattern
- Weekend availability
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 01/10/2023
DBS Checks and References are a legal requirement under OFSTED Regulated companies. Therefore, the successful applicant will be subject to a DBS Check and Referencing
About us
Gims Care Solution Limited is a progressive, supremacy, and growing company. We empower our children to develop a deep sense of belonging, trust, and self-belief. We are relentless in providing them with the best possible living experiences and life chances. Each child’s unique journey of healing and growth is supported through traumainformed, personalised care.
We are looking for the most empathetic, high-energy, skilled, and committed team players to join our home. In return, you will be highly valued and highly rewarded. So, if you are ready to develop your talents to their fullest extent within a supportive home
then apply for the Registered Manager role now.
To find out more about Gims Care Solution go to www.gimscare.co.uk Or for an initial, confidential call, speak to Anne, our Service Manager, on 07479373030.
Safeguarding our children and team is a top priority at Gims Care Solution and our recruitment procedure is designed to emphasise our commitment to safeguarding. The procedure will as a minimum include an enhanced DBS check, careful scrutiny of applications, verification of appropriate qualifications, and acquiring references
