Deputy House Manager
Foxes Academy
Somerset
- £2,780.88 - £30,347.79 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 17 September 2024
Job overview
Overview and Responsibilities
Deputy House Manager – Foxes
Location: Minehead, Somerset
Salary: £27,807.88 - £30,347.79 (FTE £30,056.00 - £32,801.60)
Hours: 40 hours per week – Term time only plus 10 additional days
Welcome to Aurora Foxes, a specialist college and training hotel for young people with learning disabilities, situated in the friendly seaside town of Minehead. Foxes is a very special place.
We believe in changing lives and giving our students the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully shape their own future. Our aim is to equip our young adults with the life and hospitality skills to become work ready, life ready.
The main purpose of the role:
As a Deputy House Manager we expect you to always work professionally and collaboratively with the House Team Leader, including when they may be absent.
Your absolute priority is to safeguard the students in your care. You must work professionally, effectively, and sensitively with your team to ensure that all students are safe, feel safe and are listened to with any concerns, and all concerns are acted upon appropriately.
Your primary and overriding role is to ensure the health, safety, welfare, and development of all students in your house.
Key duties:
- You are expected to work professionally and collaboratively with your team to motivate students and support them to make substantial and sustained progress.
- We expect you to set the professional standard with your team, this includes all aspects of the teaching and learning. We therefore always expect the highest professional standards from you in all areas and without exception.
- Lead, direct and develop your team proactively, effectively, and efficiently always promoting the highest professional standards.
- We expect you to empower your team and instill confidence in them to ensure that in your absence the standards that you set continue professionally and effectively.
- You are expected to lead your team in the effective and supportive management of student behaviour.
- Guide and support any LSP working within your House/Team
- Lead the House Team in the training, support, and personal development of students, and always safeguarding their health and welfare
- You are expected to work professionally, collaboratively, and effectively with other Deputy House Mangers always, to ensure that the interests and achievements of our students are put first.
Duties will vary, you must expect to diversify and lend a hand wherever is required. Please see the link below for our full job description:
Job Description: Deputy House Manager
Skills and Qualifications
Successful candidate qualities:
- Level 3 in Elklan, Heath & Social Care or Education & Training is desirable.
- Level 2 Maths and English or willing to work towards.
- Safeguarding experience.
- Experience of working with people with learning difficulties.
- Willingness to undertake any training required for the role.
- To be able to work shift patterns including work at the weekend.
Benefits and Additional Information
What’s on offer?
- Full training and continued support
- Opportunity to gain qualifications, which will be funded by us!
- 10% off accommodation, hot drinks and food at Foxes Hotel
- Life assurance and Enhanced pension scheme (from October)
- Health cash back plan
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Perk box
- Free parking
Apply/Enquiries
If you are interested in this role then please apply on-line and complete our application form. For more information on this position please contact 07918 144908 / adele.richard@the-aurora-group.com
Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check.
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.
The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer
This advert could be taken down at any point in time without prior notice if the position is filled.
Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.
Attached documents
About Foxes Academy
- Foxes Academy
- The Esplanade, Selbourne Place, Minehead
- Somerset
- TA24 5TY
- United Kingdom
If we had to capture the essence of Aurora Foxes, it would be employability and independence for adulthood. We strive daily to be the very best and we will continue to do so, to ensure that graduates from Aurora Foxes are: work ready, life ready.
Mark Costello - Principal
Our College"I think people should come to Foxes to work on their independence skills. I have been learning about shopping and budgeting. I can now travel to Taunton on the bus, which is 24 miles away to get to my work experience. My work experience is amazing, I serve customers and do the drinks. I hope to live in a supported living flat when I graduate, because I have all the skills I learnt at Foxes." — George
"I love Foxes because it is an amazing place to be. I love all of the sessions. I like 'Moving On' because you learn to cook and to do your personal shopping. There are so many activities to choose from. The activity I like to do the most is Mindfulness, because I like to do the yoga. I really like Ballroom Dancing, my favourite is the Waltz. I like Minehead Eye because I love the singing. You should come to Foxes because you'll like all the sessions and activities that we do!" — Rebecca
"I like working on going out independently. I like to go shopping independently and I have been on the bus to Dunster to go to the cafe with my friends. I am now travel training to get to my work experience, which is really good. You will learn to do things independently that will help you in the future." — Zac
Accommodation
Aurora Foxes has residential accommodation throughout the safe community of Minehead. Each student has a fully furnished room, as part of a comfortable, caring and happy home.
Each house has a highly experienced Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader and Learner Support Practitioners. There is a wide range of accommodation to meet individual needs. The accommodation ranges from 5 - 16 bedrooms. The students are carefully placed in their accommodation following a robust risk assessment process.
By their final year, students can be living in a small group in one of our independent flats where they have to do as much as possible for themselves; getting themselves up, washing, dressing, travelling to work experience independently, shopping, cooking and cleaning. Just like any young person in further education!
Foxes Hotel
Foxes Hotel is a delightful Victorian seaside hotel in Minehead on the Exmoor coast and is the UK’s only fully operational training hotel for young people with learning disabilities. From day one, our students have the opportunity to gain valuable practical work experience, learning all the skills needed to have a successful working life in the hospitality sector.
To learn more about our hotel, please click here.
The Flying Fox
Aurora Foxes has been in a partnership with Hilton for 8 years. The Hilton Global Foundation donated a grant to Aurora Foxes, which facilitated the purchase of The Flying Fox catering truck.
This has expanded our vocational training space, and has provided our students with the opportunity to transfer their work skills within this unique environment.
Our Community
An important and unique quality of Foxes, which is often remarked upon by visiting parents, is our location. Foxes is located right in the heart of the community. Students are therefore prepared every day for engaging in town life. This valuable experience helps to shape our students and prepare them for life after Foxes, as well as helping to reinforce independent living skills. As the second-biggest employer in Minehead, Foxes forms a signification proportion of the population of the town and is held in high regard by the community for the valuable part we play in shaping the culture of our town and community. This is especially helpful for students who may initially struggle with being out in unfamiliar spaces, as students become more familiar with being able to seek out a safe and friendly face. Over the course of their time with us, students become more confident in accessing the many facilities and events that are on offer and these experiences will form a solid foundation for life beyond their time with us.
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