POST: Deputy House Manager TEAM: Oasis Restore RESPONSIBLE TO: House Managers/Residential Leadership Team RESPONSIBLE FOR: Senior Restore Practitioners and Restore Practitioners SALARY: £51,773 to £ 57,137 (L1 L5) Local Government Pension Scheme LOCATION: Oasis Restore, in Rochester, Medway, Kent WORKING PATTERN: Full-time, including days, weekends, evenings, nights and sleep-ins. DISCLOSURE LEVEL: Enhanced About Oasis Restore Oasis Restore is the countrys first secure school, a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice and the Youth Custody Service. Oasis Restores mission is to transform the life chances of children in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children. Oasis Restore is a learning community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school. We can accommodate up to 49 children, across 12 residential flats (each sleeping between two and six children). Job Purpose A team of Deputy House Managers (working under the direction of the House Managers and the Residential and wider Senior Leadership Teams) hold day-to-day authority for the care of the children within the Restore Community, ensuring that their needs are being met. Each Deputy House Manager will: Manage and work within a team providing an outstanding quality of care and education, and a therapeutic, safe environment that functions well for children and staff. Provide daily management and direct line management to a team of Senior Restore and Restore Practitioners (frontline residential staff). Have responsibility of the monitoring and audit of quality of practice and compliance with policy, regulations and statutory requirements for children within your flat. Work according to a shift system that covers the whole week, day and night, including duty status as a key point of call and authority on site. Have oversight of the functioning of the Core Teams around each child in a given Flat, overseeing their plans and activity. Chair, facilitate and participate in key meetings including restorative and community meetings, handovers, and Core Teams around each child. Work in close collaboration with senior residential staff and staff across all the disciplines and areas of the school. Provide a containing, benevolent and robust presence, embodying and championing the values and ethos of the school. We recognise that this role is unique and has not previously existed as such within the youth justice sector. From our experience of building new organisations from scratch and of developing schools we have learned that we need to be agile and respond to learning and development of our structures.