Deputy Manager - Children's Residential Home

Job Title: Deputy Manager – Children’s Residential Home

Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Deputy Manager to join a leading healthcare provider in Bradford, West Yorkshire. This pivotal role involves leading daily practice within a children’s residential home, ensuring a safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environment for young people aged 8-17 years. The successful candidate will play a vital part in translating the home’s values and therapeutic model into meaningful, everyday experiences for children and young people.

Key Responsibilities
As a Deputy Manager based in Bradford, your daily duties will include:

• Leading shift operations to ensure high standards of care and safety for children and young people.
• Modelling calm, consistent, and trauma-informed responses during challenging situations.
• Supporting staff through coaching, supervision, and real-time feedback to promote best practice.
• Building trusting, respectful relationships with children, ensuring their voices are central to decision-making.
• Maintaining safeguarding vigilance and responding promptly to any concerns or incidents.
• Embedding the home’s therapeutic ethos into daily routines, activities, and interactions.
• Contributing to quality assurance processes, including audits, incident reviews, and practice development.
• Supporting the Registered Manager in maintaining inspection readiness and continuous improvement.

Requirements & Qualifications
To be successful as a Deputy Manager in this setting, you will need:

• NVQ Level 3 in Children’s Residential Care or equivalent qualification.
• Proven experience working within residential childcare, ideally in a leadership or shift-coordinator role.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, behaviour support, and trauma-informed care.
• A full UK driving licence is desirable but not essential.
• An enhanced DBS check is mandatory.

Benefits & Work Environment

• Competitive salary with regular reviews based on performance.
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development and training.
• Supportive team environment committed to high standards of care.
• Generous pension scheme and other employee benefits.

If you are a qualified Deputy Manager looking for an impactful role in Bradford, apply today!

Vetro Recruitment acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Vetro is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merit alone.

Note: This role is subject to satisfactory employment checks, including an enhanced DBS.