facilities manager United Kingdom
Job description
CLOSING DATE: Thursday 13th July 2023 (9am)
START DATE: September 2023
SALARY: £50,122 to £53,973 + Local Government Pension Scheme.
LOCATION: Until the building work on the school is complete, the post holder will benefit from hybrid working between home and the Oasis London offices (near Waterloo station) with some visits to the secure school location. Thereafter, the role will be located at the Oasis Restore secure school in Rochester, Medway, Kent.
INTERVIEWS: Thursday 20th July 2023
Are you passionate about transforming the lives of the most vulnerable children?
Do you want to be a founding staff member of our new secure school, the first of its kind?
Can you see yourself in a senior role, taking responsibility for the children and staff of one of our three residential houses?
We are offering a uniquely exciting opportunity for a person with experience of children’s residential care, youth justice, social work, therapies or teaching, and who is ready for a senior post managing the care of the children and staff teams in one of the three houses within Oasis Restore, the first secure school in England.
The role and what we are looking for
Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to live and learn in a restorative environment that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. The House Manager will be a dynamic, caring, skilled person, able to provide leadership and containment to a large group of residential staff and to facilitate and participate fully in the life of the school, modelling excellent practice.
Your role as a House Manager offers a unique opportunity to be part of the founding team at Oasis Restore, joining us as we recruit a large team of residential staff and taking up a crucial role in their care and development. It will be your role to inspire and develop staff practice, manage their activities, and provide and sustain a sense of safety, care and boundaries in their work. You will be an important figure for children in the house you manage, representing a kind, decent and caring source of authority, present and involved in their daily lives. You will be someone who can work well in complex, demanding and emotive situations. You will have excellent relational skills and will be naturally curious and keen to learn about your own and others’ feelings and experiences. You will be someone who can think well under pressure and who can empower and contain others in their work. You will have a powerful belief in the value of restorative work and will be able to hold your hope and compassion for the children in the face of the challenges they will bring.
This role reports to the Head of Group Living/Registered Manager, and works closely with the wider Senior Leadership Team, alongside a team of specialists within education, care, and health. Alongside two House Manager colleagues, you will manage a team of Deputy House Managers, who in turn manage the larger team of Restore Practitioners. Your role will involve a significant responsibility for ensuring the healthy functioning of the whole school (including the home), chairing handovers, coordinating and ensuring the allocation of staff, providing support, presence and decision-making across the day, and working with staff to embed and sustain our restorative culture. You will be a champion of therapeutic practice, placing relationships at the heart of everything you do and be responsible for ensuring excellent standards of care throughout the school. You will be someone who cares about developing others, working on organisational, team, group, family and individual levels to foster real understanding, good relationships and communication, within our culture of benign enquiry. You will have a mature, reflective approach that aligns with the Restore Framework, our model of practice, aware of the conscious and unconscious impact of this very challenging work and the value of discovering its meaning. You will be committed to finding a way through, and never giving up.
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