Deputy Manager

• Children's Residential Care

• Wyke, Bradford

• 9 to 5/Mon to Fri Shift Pattern

• Up to £42,000pa

• 2 Bed EBD Home

This is a Deputy Manager role based in Wyke, Bradford, paying up to £42,000 depending on experience and qualification level, working Monday to Friday, nine to five, with on call responsibility and occasional sleep ins built into the pattern rather than dominating it.

• You'd initially be supporting a solo placement home for one young person, currently rated Good by Ofsted, meaning the foundations of safe, effective, well led care are already firmly established before you even walk through the door

• From there you'd become part of a second home opening on the same street, a two bed EBD provision moving through registration, with one Registered Manager set to oversee both homes once everything is fully operational

What the leadership around this role brings to the table:

• The Responsible Individual overseeing the homes has built a reputation for being hands on and supportive, someone who understands the pressures of residential childcare from lived experience rather than from a policy document

• The incoming Registered Manager has previously led similar homes and understands what good practice looks like day to day

• Growth here is being managed deliberately, one home at a time, on the same street, which tells you a great deal about how seriously quality and continuity of care are being taken compared with providers expanding purely for volume

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the day to day delivery of individualised, trauma informed care within the solo placement home, keeping consistency and stability at the centre of everything

• Working alongside the Registered Manager as the second EBD home progresses through registration and prepares to open

• Holding on call responsibility outside your core Monday to Friday hours, with occasional sleep ins when the home requires it

• Supervising, mentoring and developing the wider staff team so they feel confident, capable and properly supported in complex situations

• Maintaining care plans, risk assessments and compliance records to a standard that reflects genuine best practice under the Children's Homes Regulations

• Building strong, trusting relationships with the young person or young people, their families and any professionals involved in their care

• Acting as a reliable and visible point of contact for the team whenever the Registered Manager is off site

What you'll need to bring:

• A minimum of a Level 4 Diploma in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner, with a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare being an advantage

• Demonstrable Senior or Deputy Manager experience within children's residential care, ideally including exposure to EBD or complex needs

• A full UK driving licence, given the on call element of the role

• Strong, current understanding of safeguarding practice, Ofsted's inspection framework and the day to day realities of residential childcare, well beyond what any training course alone can teach

• Genuine emotional resilience combined with warmth, patience and consistency, because these qualities shape outcomes for young people far more than any qualification on its own

This salary reflects the level of trust being placed in whoever steps into this position because early involvement in shaping a second home from registration onwards is a meaningful professional opportunity that most Deputy Manager roles simply don't offer.

If you want to build something with longevity, in a sector that badly needs people who bring both skill and heart to the role, get in touch and we'll talk honestly about what the day to day really looks like before you commit to anything.