Deputy Manager

Job Title: Deputy Manager
Starting Salary: £42,839 progressing to £47,181 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Childrens Services

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join us a Deputy Manager for one of our 7 children’s homes. Six Hills based in Stevenage, offers up to 5 children between the ages of 8 and 18 with complex emotional needs, a safe long-term home and a therapeutic environment in which to thrive.

As a Deputy Manager you will oversee all care practice within the home, ensuring quality standards and legislative frameworks are met. You will line manage 3 Senior Residential Workers while supporting the wider team within their roles and deputising for the Home Manager in their absence. You will work closely with the Home Manager to embed trauma informed practice and advocate for the needs of the young people with other professionals.

About the role

As part of this role, you will be required to:

• Directly lead Seniors, ensuring motivation, development, and nurturing.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, including psychologists, education advisers from the virtual school, health professionals and social workers.
• Maintain high standards of care and a culture for your team to excel.
• Assist the Registered Manager with day-to-day operations and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Foster a positive and empowering environment for young people and your team.

Support to develop a trauma informed child centred, outcome focused service

We’re looking for someone with a demonstrable passion to support young people with adverse experiences and advocate for their needs. You will have management experience and ability to lead a team, whilst modelling best practice.

As no two days are the same, you’ll be a natural problem solver with the ability to remain calm and resilient under pressure.

You will have working knowledge of Ofsted regulations to ensure the home is meeting these standards, along with a full driving licence for cross county travel.

Applicants must be prepared to undertake a level 5 leadership and management qualification, if this is not already held, and undertake a minimum of 1 sleep-in shift per month.

About you

Essential:

• Must have level 5 leadership and management qualification in Residential or working towards it.
• Full UK Driving License and ability to travel.
• You will have management experience and ability to lead a team.
• Working with Children looked after.
• Undertake a minimum of 1 shift per month.
• You will be required to be flexible to support the needs of the home.
• Able to be a part of the on-call management rota.
• Demonstrable passion to support young people with adverse experiences and advocate for their needs.
• You will have working knowledge of Ofsted regulations to ensure the home is meeting these standards.
• Able to be calm and work under pressure.
• Self-motivated
• Quality Assurance

Desirable:

• Minimum 2 years experience of working in residential children’s home.
• Minimum 2 years in a senior experience in residential children’s home or relevant role
• Trauma Informed ways of working.
• Knowledge of how to support with Ofsted Inspections and Reg 44 visits.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Health and Social Care Services, level HSC11 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Health and social care

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Karissa Prince (karissa.prince@hertfordshire.gov.uk)

Interview date: 23rd and 24th October 2025.

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.