Deputy Manager - Auton House, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Salary: £34,862 per annum

Location: Auton House, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Hours: Full time contract

The role

We are seeking to recruit a Deputy Manager to provide high quality care to ‘looked after children’ who may have had numerous placement breakdowns and who can present difficult challenging behaviours.

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values, behaviours and attitudes that can ensure our Charity values are at the heart of everything we do. These are a commitment to quality and providing excellence: showing dignity and respect and treating people we support with compassion as well as having trust and respect for work colleagues.

As a Deputy Manager, you will support and work with the Manager and senior team at an operational and strategic level; deliver excellent high standards of care; provide supervisions and values-led management to our team of Residential Care Officers. You should also be able to demonstrate experience in managing and developing staff, alongside leadership abilities, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

You should hold a Diploma level 3 Health and Social Care, Children and Young People or an equivalent qualification and experience of working in a similar environment.

We offer a pleasant and supportive working environment and an excellent range of benefits.

• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, including a day off for your birthday
• Christmas bank holidays paid at double time
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave
• Company sick pay scheme
• Staff savings scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech scheme
• Free staff counselling service
• Blue Light discount offering shopping discounts on thousands of stores
• Charity workers’ discount
• Free life assurance

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The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.

Apply for this job

To apply for this vacancy, please either complete our online application form or send us your CV, along with contact details and the reference to this role, by emailing recruitment@stcuthbertscare.org.uk or call 0191 2288003. 

If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful.