Deputy Home Manager – Calleydown Children’s Home – New Addington
Salary: Grade 12 £48,531 - £50,574
Permanent – 36 hours per week
Job Purpose
Calleydown is a residential short break care home for Children with Learning Disabilities aged 5 to 18 years. Some of the children have associated physical disabilities and total care needs, and some have challenging behaviour. Calleydown forms part of Croydon’s Services for Children with Disabilities Team and is located in New Addington. We are seeking an experienced professional with a passion for looking after children. Key tasks will include supervision of staff and their annual appraisals, overseeing the rota’s and responding to emergencies out of hours. You will be part of a team providing care to children and promoting positive outcomes.
The post requires you to work on a various shift pattern (usually Monday to Friday) with an occasional shift when required including weekends and bank holidays and sleep in duties. It also requires an enhanced DBS.
About You
We are looking for an experienced and appropriately qualified professional that is able to demonstrate their knowledge and experience of working with children. You will also need to be confident in managing challenging behaviour and carry out permissible forms of physical interventions. You will have compassion and drive to effectively manage staff and engage with other professionals. The successful candidate needs to have a knowledge and understanding of the care of children and their disability. You will need to have an experience in direct supervision and management of staff, knowledge and understanding of the Children’s Homes Regulations including Quality Standards. The appointed candidate must have an ability to represent the service in professional settings. The ideal candidate will have a substantial experience in a care or educational or public services setting.
Home to 94,000 children, Croydon is a truly unique place to practice social work. We are a borough with big ambition, grit, and determination. Children's social care was judged ‘good’ in our last Ofsted inspection.
Our systemic practice framework places emphasis on relationships as key to supporting change for families. We make sense of the world through relationships, focusing on the whole family system and thinking about our own part in that too – what we bring, our own family stories and beliefs, how we use ourselves in the work that we do. Our practice model is all about collaboration - with our families, networks and partners; being open to challenge and ensuring our practitioners are highly trained in a variety of intervention approaches. Our established clinical service will support you to grow your own systemic practice within the service, providing accredited training, co-working and direct work with families.
For an informal chat about working in Croydon, contact Agata Stolowska at agata.stolowska@croydon.gov.uk