Deputy Manager

The successful candidates will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, working across Monday – Friday, 9AM – 5PM. Temporary cover is required for approximately 2 – 3 months. In this position, you will be required to: – Manage 3-4 staff; actively directing team members in their day-to-day work to ensure that young people receive a consistent, high quality and responsive service. – Ensure each client has an individual package of support with regular formal and informal key working, and an up-to-date co-produced and comprehensive support and safety plan – Work with the Services Manager overseeing missing young people reports and actively leading on and coordinating a joint response with statutory services, as well as directing a variety of approaches for non-engaging clients – Maintain positive working relationships with the Local Authority Children\’s Services and Leaving Care teams to manage positive placement outcomes – Work alongside the Services Manager to maintain consistent oversight of referrals and processing of referrals by ensuring they meet the criteria and service specification and to ensure that all referrals are interviewed, assessed, and accepted / rejected in line with policy and procedure – Support the team to ensure that preparation for move-on begins once the young person moves into the service, and to lead on the development and roll out of a comprehensive package of life skills training which is available to all – Ensure consistent monitoring of the quality of support delivered daily, through working alongside staff in meetings and through consistent review of support delivery and housing management duties – As directed by the Services Manager, to contribute to organisational and statutory monitoring and reporting within set deadlines – Ensure regular reviews of the property standard through health and safety compliance assessments take place and are appropriately discussed and shared with the relevant teams to address any issues – Oversee the voids process, ensuring staff promptly identify and report void works – Ensure staff are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in line with policy and procedure To apply for this role, you must have: – Experience working with young people in an accommodation based service, in particular looked after children and care leavers with complex needs (mental health, anti-social behaviour, attachment difficulties, offending behaviour) – Experience of staff and service management and the ability to manage staff performance and motivate staff members to perform effectively – A high-level understanding of mental health conditions and how they affect young people in care – Ability to manage the range of issues involved in the delivery of quality services to young people who may be at risk or looked after with complex needs including offending and gang affiliation – Experience of developing and maintaining positive partnership relationships with a range of internal and external providers and services – Ability to co-ordinate the work of a number of individuals or agencies to get tasks completed to time and to specification. – High level of numeracy, literacy and comprehension in order to be able to contribute to budget setting, monitor expenditure, write reports and review, analyse and extrapolate from written information. – Ability to be self-motivating, work under pressure, and manage time effectively, prioritising different areas of work according to need – A good level of IT skills necessary to maintain data and fulfil monitoring requirements with the ability to be fully self-servicing in the use of emails and the common computer packages