London Borough of Croydon

Children's Home Opportunities - St Christopher's Fellowship Job Description To complete your application for any of the roles at St Christopher's Fellowship, please click here. Please do not apply on this site as your application will not be reviewed. St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people. They have a proud history of providing fostering, children's homes, and innovative leaving care services across the UK & Isle of Man. They have a passionate commitment to young people, placing them at the centre of everything they do. They provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home. St Christopher's currently have several job opportunities in a children's home in Croydon. To apply for: Residential Worker role, please click here. Team Leader role, please click here. Experienced Practitioner role, please click here. To view other opportunities at St Christopher's Fellowship, please visit St Christophers Fellowship Careers More about St Christopher's St Christopher's can offer you a career where you can develop your skills and knowledge whilst making a difference to young people's lives. When you join St Christopher's, they will set you up in your career with a tailored development plan. Whether you want to move across to a different service, become a manager, or explore your current role further, they will support you to map out your career trajectory and help you achieve your professional ambitions. 84% of all their Team Leaders, Deputies and Managers are internal promotions. At St Christopher's, they are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in their care. During the recruitment process, you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure they capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice, and vetting requirements. Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case, St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to you starting. For your application to be reviewed, it must include a supporting statement that addresses the criteria stated in the Person Specification. Please note that CVs will not be accepted. For more information or assistance during the application process, please contact

Service Leader - Children Social Care - Croydon Council Salary: Grade 11 £46,968-£49,056 Hours: 36 per week / Monday - Friday Fixed Term until October 2026 The Opportunity To provide management and leadership of senior and service support coordinators taking overall responsibility in Access, Support, and Intervention to lead and drive delivery of consistent high-quality support within the practice system embedding an agile and flexible working culture to ensure adequate and robust support arrangements across. Providing a context of high support and high challenge, service leaders will be responsible for the oversight, scrutiny, and accountability of support services including having an overview of staffing systems. Ensuring the implementation of best practice and service standards whilst building effective working relationships and supporting collaborative ways of working with service coordinators, practitioners, social workers, and managers. Leading the development and implementation of service improvements, ensuring compliance with statutory guidance and policies, provide guidance, support, and expertise to service coordinators. Ensure that processes, systems, and governance arrangements are followed and fit for purpose the role will also provide efficient and effective support to the Head of Service in the delivery of service functions. About You We are looking for a confident individual, who also has: Knowledge of common service support systems used throughout the council. Good knowledge and understanding of the customers' service support requirements. Knowledge of national legislation, policies, standards, and initiatives relevant to this role within a local government environment. Delivering customer service expertise Ability to prioritise own workload and that of a large team to meet deadlines in a fast-changing environment. A clear appreciation of the demands of working within a multiple stakeholder, fast-paced, highly political environment. Ability to work in a large complex, political organisation and to understand and operate within national and local frameworks of accountability. To view Service Leader role profile, please click here.

Deputy Home Manager - Calleydown Children's Home based in New Addington, CR0 0EP Salary: Grade 12 £50,085-£52,194 Permanent - 36 hours per week Please note, we are not able to offer sponsorship for this role. Job Purpose Calleydown is a residential short break care home for Children with Learning Disabilities aged 5 to 18 years. Some of the children have associated physical disabilities and total care needs, and some have challenging behaviour. Calleydown forms part of Croydon's Services for Children with Disabilities Team and is located in New Addington. We are seeking an experienced professional with a passion for looking after children. Key tasks will include supervision of staff and their annual appraisals, overseeing the rota's and responding to emergencies out of hours. You will be part of a team providing care to children and promoting positive outcomes. The post requires you to work on a various shift pattern with an occasional shift when required including weekends and bank holidays and sleep in duties. About You We are looking for an experienced and appropriately qualified (Level 5 is desirable but not essential) professional that is able to demonstrate their knowledge and experience of working with children. You will also need to be confident in managing challenging behaviour and carry out permissible forms of physical interventions. You will have compassion and drive to effectively manage staff and engage with other professionals. The successful candidate needs to have a knowledge and understanding of the care of children and their disability. You will need to have an experience in direct supervision and management of staff, knowledge and understanding of the Children's Homes Regulations including Quality Standards. The appointed candidate must have an ability to represent the service in professional settings. The ideal candidate will have a substantial experience in a care or educational or public services setting. To view Deputy Home Manager detailed role profile, please click here. About Us Croydon Council's priorities The Council balances its books, listens to residents, and delivers good sustainable services Get a grip on the finances and make the council financially sustainable Become a council which listens to, respects and works in partnership with Croydon's diverse communities and businesses Strengthen collaboration and joint working with partner organisations and the voluntary, community and faith sectors Ensure good governance is embedded and adopt best practice Develop our workforce to deliver in a manner that respects the diversity of our communities Key business plan outcomes: Croydon is a place of opportunity for business, earning and learning Children and young people in Croydon have the chance to thrive, learn and fulfil their potential Croydon is a cleaner, safer and healthier place, a borough we're proud to call home People can lead healthier and independent lives for longer Croydon Council's new ways of working Equal Opportunities Statement Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role. Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.