Salary: From £44,428 up to £48,474 per annum pro rata
Grade: M
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 37 hours per week
Location: Harrogate
Deputy Manager (Alternative Provisions/Signs of Safety) - No Wrong Door (NWD). You will be part of the management team that supports a wide range of placements (including residential care), support and services that makes up a NWD model. The key purpose of the role is to be responsible for placements outside of the home Hub with the additional accountability of being the dedicated safeguarding lead across the No Wrong Door model.
The role of Deputy Manager is dynamic and diverse, requiring a confident, autonomous individual to drive forward practice and influence stakeholders, partners and colleagues. As NWD Deputy Manager you will coordinate and chair RAISE meetings with key agencies when concerns relating to safeguarding and risk are present. You will actively work in collaboration to decide and act in the best interest of the young person to increase safety using agreed approaches.
We are looking for an innovative professional with experience and resilience in working with young people with complex and challenging behaviours. You will be driven, astute, inspirational and a great communicator who strongly believes in a relationship based approach when working with children and young people. Whilst ensuring multi-agency networks are developed and maintained and NWD is kept at the forefront of strategic developments and partner’s priorities, at all levels.
As Deputy Manager you will demonstrate real leadership and direction to enable staff to work at their best, using evidence-based models including Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice. You will provide on-the-ground support and drive change in finding solutions, building sustainable and meaningful relationships and manage the reduction of risk, whilst focussing on local placements with the clear objective of improving work with families and safely reducing the number of children entering care.
The post holder will also have to participate in a out of hours stand by rota and may at times have to work evenings, weekends or bank holidays as required by the service.
For further information about this post please contact Steve Olden, Team Manager No Wrong Door West, at Steve.Olden@northyorks.gov.uk or James Cliffe, Group Manager No Wrong Door, at james.cliffe@northyorks.gov.uk
Key documents
Key dates
Closing date: 17th April 2025
Interview date: TBC
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS.
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