Deputy Manager - Residential Support Service - Disability Social Care 0 – 25 Service

What will you be doing?

Have you got stand out leadership skills that are impacting and energetic?

Do you have a big heart that leads with kindness, motivating and inspiring others?

Can you bring creativity, confidence and a brilliant sense of humour?

The Cambridgeshire 0-25 Disability Service is looking for these special skills in a Deputy Manager who will help lead our residential children's home for children and young people with SEND.

This is more than a job. It's movie nights, celebrations, life-changing conversations, problem-solving, team building, and helping our children and young people achieve things that were never thought possible.

Working alongside the Registered Manager you’ll create a safe, fun and nurturing residential home where children can grow in confidence, develop independence and enjoy the childhood they deserve.

No two days are ever the same!

You will have the chance to lead an amazing team, helping them be their best. 

Building significant relationships with children, young people and their families, you’ll have the skills to be able instil confidence and show that children are safe, valued and supported.

Children’s voices are at the heart of what we do, and you will be the champion that they need to make sure that they are heard.

About you

We want you to tell us how you’ve made great outcomes happen for children and young people, how you remain calm and focused, what you do to manage a variety of competing priorities, how you’ve kept children safe and how you’ve made a difference to the performance of a team or led through a period of change with incredible results.

We want to hear about the impact you've made, not just the duties you've performed.

If your application simply lists responsibilities, you'll miss the opportunity to stand out. We're looking for evidence of excellence, initiative, leadership and a genuine commitment to achieving the very best for children and young people.

We believe that every child deserves someone who believes in them and every team deserves a leader who inspires them.

If you're ready to bring your passion, leadership and experience to a role where every day matters, then we want to hear from you.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers