Job Title: Deputy Manager – Children’s Residential Home
Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Deputy Manager to join a leading healthcare provider in Bradford, West Yorkshire. This pivotal role involves leading daily practice within a children’s residential home, ensuring a safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environment for young people aged 8-17 years. The successful candidate will play a vital part in translating the home’s values and therapeutic model into meaningful, everyday experiences for children and young people.
Key Responsibilities
As a Deputy Manager based in Bradford, your daily duties will include:
- Leading shift operations to ensure high standards of care and safety for children and young people.
- Modelling calm, consistent, and trauma-informed responses during challenging situations.
- Supporting staff through coaching, supervision, and real-time feedback to promote best practice.
- Building trusting, respectful relationships with children, ensuring their voices are central to decision-making.
- Maintaining safeguarding vigilance and responding promptly to any concerns or incidents.
- Embedding the home’s therapeutic ethos into daily routines, activities, and interactions.
- Contributing to quality assurance processes, including audits, incident reviews, and practice development.
- Supporting the Registered Manager in maintaining inspection readiness and continuous improvement.
Requirements & Qualifications
- NVQ Level 3 in Children’s Residential Care or equivalent qualification.
- Proven experience working within residential childcare, ideally in a leadership or shift-coordinator role.
- Strong understanding of safeguarding, behaviour support, and trauma-informed care.
- A full UK driving licence is desirable but not essential.
- An enhanced DBS check is mandatory.
Benefits & Work Environment
- Competitive salary with regular reviews based on performance.
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development and training.
- Supportive team environment committed to high standards of care.
- Generous pension scheme and other employee benefits.
Vetro Recruitment acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Vetro is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merit alone.
Note: This role is subject to satisfactory employment checks, including an enhanced DBS.
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