Deputy Manager (Boothroyd House)

We have exciting opportunities for therapeutic care givers to join our brand-new Residential Service at Boothroyd House and join our Leadership and Management Team.

Could you help us in our mission to create a warm, safe, and happy home for our children where all an thrive? We have created a house that is both welcoming, warm, and safe for all and now need to take the next step to make it a home.

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated, enthusiastic, reliable, and proactive individual who has a strong commitment to ensuring all within their care are both safe and cared for. They must be nurturing and supportive, with excellent communication skills and can form strong relationships with children and young people, team members, parents and carers and key stakeholder partners.

Our home will provide care for up to 4 boys aged between 7-12 who may have a range of complex needs in addition to impaired social or cognitive functioning due to early life trauma and attachment difficulties. By working in partnership with a supportive and experienced Registered Manager, Senior Residential Care Workers, Clinical Lead, and other colleagues you will be responsible for creating and maintaining an environment where safe, consistent, creative, and enabling care for the children and young people (who can present with complex and challenging behaviours) is the standard. Alongside our Safeguarding stakeholders in the wider community, your role through collaborative partnerships, will be to help develop and safely lead the team within our Model of Care, promoting and facilitating positive outcomes.

As part of The Smith Foundation, we will work in partnership with our colleagues at The William Henry

Smith School to provide Outstanding individualised learning opportunities for our children and young people. You will actively model safe and effective positive relationships, ensure that the children and young people are supported to safely tackle areas of difficulty, be enabled to develop, and ensure opportunities are created in which they can thrive.

Please note that you must be 22 years old or above to apply as per Children's Home Regulations. You must also have a valid driving licence.