Deputy Home Manager – Mental Health Residential Service
📍 Location: Luton, Bedfordshire
🕒 Hours: 40 hours per week
💰 Salary: £16.34 per hour
❤️ Make a Real Difference in the Lives of Families and Carers
This role includes two 12.5-hour shifts per week supporting the team with support work, and two 7.5-hour admin days per week.
Currently we are unable to offer sponsorships
Benefits:
✅ Fully funded DBS
🛍️ Blue Light Card (High street discounts with many major brands)
🗓️ Annual Leave: 28 days including bank holidays (Pro Rata)
🤝 Access to our ‘Refer a Friend’ scheme – earn up to £1000
🎓 CQC-recognised training programme (including paid induction & up to 11 annual sessions)
🚀 Career progression - many of our managers started as support workers
💼 Employer pension contribution
🌴 Holiday leave following one year’s employment
💼 What we can offer you:
- Supportive and collaborative team environment
- Opportunities for training, development, and career progression
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- A meaningful role where you can truly make a difference in people’s lives
- Involvement in shaping and improving a growing mental health service
We are currently recruiting for a dedicated and experienced Deputy Home Manager to support the leadership of our specialist residential service in Luton. This 10-bedded home supports working-age males living with a range of complex mental health conditions and co-occurring challenges, including forensic backgrounds and substance or alcohol misuse histories.
As Deputy Manager, you will work closely with the Registered Manager to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the service, maintain high standards of care, and foster a safe and therapeutic environment that supports recovery, independence, and positive outcomes.
🔑 Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in the management and oversight of the home’s daily operations
- Lead and support a team of care and support staff to deliver high-quality, person-centred care
- Promote a structured and therapeutic environment tailored to individual needs
- Ensure ongoing compliance with CQC standards and all relevant legislation
- Contribute to care planning, risk assessments, incident reporting, and safeguarding
- Liaise effectively with service users, families, multi-disciplinary teams, and external agencies
- Deputise for the Registered Manager when required
Experience working with individuals with complex mental health needs, ideally in a residential or forensic setting with a drug and alcohol service background is crucial.
- Proven leadership or supervisory experience in a care environment
- Strong knowledge of mental health conditions and dual diagnosis
- Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills
- NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care (with a view to training to Level 4/5)
- Commitment to promoting dignity, independence, and recovery
- A willingness to take on training responsibilities in service specific subject such as drug awareness following appropriate train the trainer course
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality care and want to play a key role in supporting individuals on their journey to recovery, we would love to hear from you.
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