Supported Living Deputy Manager (Maternity Cover)

Salary: From £34,470.14 pa (+ on call rota allowance)

Maternity cover, 40 hours per week

Office based role at Prockters Farm Offices, West Monkton, Taunton

Job Description:

Due to growth, we are recruiting for a Deputy Manager, you’ll be based within the head office to support the Supported Living Manager in the provision of a stable, structured, and therapeutic environment for our Supported Living service. You will work closely with the Supported Living Director, Team Manager and Supported Living Support Workers to ensure that they work closely with the children and young people accessing the service, who they support, ensuring all team members are nurturing, listening, and encouraging. The Supported Living service is designed specifically to provide semi-independent living support to young people aged 16 years and over and may include Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC). You will ensure that the values of organization are embodied, ensuring the effective implementation of care plans and person-centred care, as well as taking a lead role in developing and updating the key documents, whilst role modelling and supporting colleagues. It is essential that you are a supportive, driven person. Who displays patience, kindness, and leadership skills that enable you to role model a passion for empowering young people to achieve their full potential.

You will be expected to support in covering shortfalls alongside the Supported Living Manager.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

· Share and always embody the company ethos and values in your practice

· Support the manager in practices that promote the individuals' care plans. These should reflect their wishes and changing needs including communication and independence skills.

· To provide support and guidance on young person focused practices lending to nurture the road to independent living, such as exploring suitable college courses, management of personal finances, shopping, meal preparation, effective cleaning, laundry, exploring hobbies and interests to include expanding social skills etc.

· To support the service users in an appropriate professional manner in all aspects of their lives, be this personally, emotionally, physically, socially, or vocationally.

· To support people to maintain relationships with their family and friends.

· To understand and respect things which are important to service users and colleagues.

· To encourage service users to make choices and decisions for themselves and support them to do new things in a way that keeps them safe but does not allow concerns about safety to stop them doing the things they want to do.

· To be flexible in your approach and work for the benefit of the service users and colleagues

· Be a good role model for the staff team at all times.

· Ensure the staff team are supported, mentored, and receive the highest quality of supervision and coaching where appropriate.

· Undertake all duties of your role with due diligence and pride.

· Be responsible and accountable for the young people’s safety and well-being at all times; ensuring that their best interests are always promoted.

· Assist with supervisions.

· Ensuring the service is compliant with Health & Safety.

· Ensure that budgets are kept to and monitored.

· Ensure team members are recording mileage and submitting timesheets and expenses on time.

· Take responsibility for ensuring that all identified tasks are completed in a timely and efficient manner.

This role is subject to the successful applicant having an enhanced DBS check for child and adult workforce with barred list checks.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore applicants are required to declare any convictions, cautions, reprimands, and final warnings that are not protected (i.e. that are not filtered out) as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 & 2023).

This post is only available to applicants aged over 21 as permitted under the Equality Act 2010.

Requirements

• Full driving license

• NVQ Level 3 in Residential Childcare

• Desirable NVQ Level 5 in Leadership & Management

• Experience of being a Children's Residential Support Worker or senior post holder seeking career advancement

• Desirable experience in supervising a team.

Benefits

• Access to Blue Light Discount Card
  
• Fully funded Level 5 Leadership & Management
  
• Opportunities for career development
  
• Employee Assistance program
  
• Personable Mortgage Advice