Deputy Manager – Children’s Residential Home
Oasis House LTD
DerbyView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£40,000 to £43,500
Contract
Not specified
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
28 October 2026
8 days leftJob description
A leadership role held from the floor. You would be on shift and in the room — leading handovers, steadying a difficult evening, and coaching colleagues in the moment rather than reviewing it with them a fortnight later.
The formal side is real: leading shifts, holding safeguarding standards, observing practice and feeding back on it while it is still live, and keeping records to a standard that would bear inspection. But the part that matters most is quieter. You would be the person who decides, by example, what is normal here — how an adult speaks to a child who has just lost their temper, what happens after a hard shift, and whether a colleague feels able to say they got something wrong.
- Lead from the floor, not from a distance.
- Model calmness before asking it of others.
- Respond to behaviour with curiosity before correction.
- Support colleagues without lowering standards.
- Protect culture on every shift.
- Substantial experience in children’s residential care, and of leading a shift — with the credibility that only comes from having done the work on the floor.
- A working knowledge of the Children’s Homes Regulations and the Quality Standards — enough to lead practice against them on an ordinary Tuesday, not only to quote them at an inspection.
- The Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare, and the Level 5 for management either held or something you are ready to work towards — it would be funded and supported.
- A confident safeguarding practitioner: quick to notice, careful to record, willing to escalate without delay, and able to challenge a colleague or a professional when a child’s welfare needs it.
- The ability to turn trauma-informed, attachment-aware, PACE-informed and relationship-based practice into what actually happens at seven in the morning — not as theory, but as the way the house runs.
- Sound judgement in live situations: deciding quickly and proportionately when a shift is under pressure, saying clearly what you have decided, and leading behaviour support that stays relational rather than becoming a sanction.
- Emotional intelligence, and steadiness when a shift is going badly. The team will take its temperature from you.
- Professional curiosity: asking what a behaviour is communicating, and asking again when the first answer is convenient.
- A genuine appetite for developing other people — coaching in the moment, noticing where practice is drifting, and building the professional confidence of colleagues who may be newer to this than you.
Welcome, but not required: experience of deputising or leading in a children’s home regulated by Ofsted, of registration or inspection preparation, and of working with autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, developmental trauma or exploitation risk.
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First seen
16 September 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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