Assistant House Manager in Preston

There is no better time to start a career within residential childcare than now! Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career? If you would like to build a career that gives you a genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further and apply today!

Children’s home Ribbleton are recruiting for an Assistant House Manager. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Assistant House Manager to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support and care for our young people and be responsible for a small staff team. Please note, for this role we are only able to consider candidates with a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

Benefits:

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Comprehensive induction
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Pension scheme
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills, and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress. If you can demonstrate the values needed for a role within residential childcare, we will give you all the training and support you need to become a dynamic Assistant House Manager.

Role:

A Level 5 qualification in Children and Young People is essential for this role and you should be willing to study towards the Level 5 Diploma. The ideal candidate will have experience and the following characteristics to be successful in this role:

• Resilience: we support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
• Communication: communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, good teamwork and communication play a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation: overseeing the effective implementation of care and independence programmes for our young people through effective line management of the staff team, and manage shift patterns on a rota basis.
• Caring: our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
• Attentive: no young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most. Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least two references which cover the last three years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.