Deputy Home Manager - Calleydown Children''s Home - New Addington Salary: Grade 12 £48,531 - £50,574 Permanent - 36 hours per week Job Purpose Calleydown is a residential short break care home for Children with Learning Disabilities aged 5 to 18 years. Some of the children have associated physical disabilities and total care needs, and some have challenging behaviour. Calleydown forms part of Croydon''s Services for Children with Disabilities Team and is located in New Addington. We are seeking an experienced professional with a passion for looking after children. Key tasks will include supervision of staff and their annual appraisals, overseeing the rota''s and responding to emergencies out of hours. You will be part of a team providing care to children and promoting positive outcomes. The post requires you to work on regular shift pattern including weekends and bank holidays and sleep in duties. It also requires an enhanced DBS. About You We are looking for an experienced and appropriately qualified professional that is able to demonstrate their knowledge and experience of working with children. You will also need to be confident in managing challenging behaviour and carry out permissible forms of physical interventions. You will have compassion and drive to effectively manage staff and engage with other professionals. The successful candidate needs to have a knowledge and understanding of the care of children and their disability. You will need to have an experience in dir