Deputy Team Manager @ Brent Council

This Job posting is only open to Internal Applicants at Brent Council

Salary range: £43,299 - £46,512 p.a. inc. London weighting
Contract: Fixed Term / Secondment - 6 Months
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
Location: Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre

An exciting secondment opportunity as a Deputy Team Manager for The Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre…

Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.

The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.

The Post

Ade Adepitan Short Break Centre is a centre of excellence in Brent for children and young people aged up to eighteen, with profound and multiple learning difficulties, complex health needs, physical disabilities and autistic spectrum disorders. We offer these children opportunities to have an enjoyable short break and new experiences to make a positive difference to their lives and achieve their goals.
The successful candidate will ensure the delivery of service within the aims of The Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 for the conduct of children’s home providers; and within the framework for Ofsted inspections.
Key responsibilities will comprise undertaking specific areas of responsibility including complex physical care; working with young people with autistic spectrum disorders; overall responsibility of the service as a shift leader; key working for individual children/ young people; implementing and monitoring the individual child/young persons Care Plan and helping them in achieving their targets and goals.

You will supervise and develop excellent residential childcare officers. This will include the completion of high quality and timely assessments, providing effective support services for families and young people, and developing new multi-agency working relationships with our partners.
You will ensure the delivery of effective services which meet their key performance indicators.
You will ensure that your services are provided in a cost-effective manner.
When required to do so you will deputise for Centre Manager of the unit.
You will chair team meetings and parent coffee mornings and will participate in important departmental forums such as the Care Panel.
You will develop excellent working relationships with our partner agencies and help to develop new multi-agency arrangements to deliver services in line with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015.
You will ensure the consistent implementation of all Centre and Council Policy

The Person

The successful candidate should be an individual of integrity and good character; has the appropriate experience, qualification, and skills for the work; mentally and physically fit for the purposes of the work.
Do you enjoy working with children and young people and making a difference to their lives?
Do you have a level 4 Diploma in Residential Childcare or and equivalent qualification?
Can you provide continuity of service to children and young people this role involves working unsociable hours?
Are you a skilled, motivated and a dynamic, committed professional with experience of working with children with disabilities?
Do you have a positive 'can do' attitude to make a positive impact?

You will have at post qualifying experience and at least experience in management roles.
You should be able to remain calm and confident in a pressurised environment where you will sometimes have to deal with conflicting demands.
You will have strong communication skills which allow you to contribute to the positive and supportive cultures in your teams.
You will be an effective performance manager who is able to identify and address any performance issues which arise.
You will have excellent supervision skills which enable you to both develop and challenge your team managers when required to do so.
You will have the ability to manage your budgets so that services are delivered within the agreed limits.
You will have the ability to develop strong working relationships with our multi agency partners in order to create new models of service delivery.

If so, and you can live up to the challenges and rewards that come from delivering dedicated person-centred active support services, focussing on outcomes, we would welcome your application.

Closing date: 13 August 2025 (23:00)

Additional Information

If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the "Apply Now" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.

This position is only open to current employees of Brent Council or Temporary Agency Workers currently working in Brent Council. External candidates are not permitted to apply for internal only roles. Forwarding ‘internal only’ roles to external candidates may lead to disciplinary action being taken.

Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.

We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.

The information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found here.

Brent has a positive approach to flexible working.

As a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including “non-visible” disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on [email protected]

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