Deputy Residential Manager in Ilford

Overview

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Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you enjoy working with children and young people and positively impacting their lives? We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and passionate individual to join our new Mental Health Residential home as the Deputy Manager, on a full-time permanent basis.

Location of the post: Coalville, Leicestershire.

Service Overview: Barnardo\’s, the UK\’s largest Children\’s Charity, is delivering a range of Children\’s homes for the most vulnerable children and young people in Leicestershire in partnership with Leicestershire County Council.

Please note: Although Ivan House will be your base location, you must be flexible to travel throughout the locality to support our other Leicestershire Residential Services until the home is operational, and as and when required throughout your employment.

Ivan House, our new Mental Health Residential home in Coalville, will support children and young people with a range of complex needs, providing a nurturing environment to assist their recovery from mental health issues that led to admission to a Tier 4 CAMHS unit. The home will meet the needs of children and young people who are ready for discharge but are not yet able or ready to return home, or still require a period in a therapeutic setting.

Responsibilities

• To build trust and develop nurturing relationships which promote the service user\’s independence, wellbeing, strengths, and capabilities.
• To work in partnership and build relationships with parents/carers and other professionals.
• To shift lead and conduct staff supervisions.
• To support the Registered Manager with audits and other duties where required.
• To contribute to the upkeep of the home including cooking, cleaning, etc.
• To document information accurately and ensure records are kept up to date.
• To ensure safeguarding policies and procedures are adhered to.
• To promote, monitor and maintain a safe environment at all times.

Essential requirements to evidence in your written application

• Must hold a Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare.
• Must hold OR be willing to work towards the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young Peoples services.
• Must have at least 1 year supervisory and shift leader experience in a Children\’s Residential setting.
• Knowledge and experience of working with OFSTED Regulations and Quality Standards of Children\’s homes with the ability to support the manager to achieve a rating of outstanding.
• Knowledge and experience of recording and reporting to enable safeguarding and protection of children and young people.

For more information about this role, please contact Sean Fagan – Sean Fagan at barnardos.org.uk (written contact detail provided in this refined version).

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo\’s values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo\’s and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. Details on Barnardo\’s pay framework can be found upon application.

While the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band. This ensures pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo\’s believes in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years Barnardo\’s service, 29 days after 5 years, and 30 days after 7 years. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata.
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme.
• A host of family-friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options.
• Service-related sick pay from day 1.
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo\’s. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Interest-free season ticket loans.
• Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and more via our Benefit Portal.
• 20% discount at Barnardo\’s stores.
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy, etc.
• Free access to round-the-clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
• Access to Barnardo\’s Learning and Development offer.

*T&C\’s apply based on contract

About Barnardo\’s

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments, and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.