Deputy House Manager

JOB TITLE: Deputy House Manager SALARY RANGE: £51,773 to £57,137 (L1 – L5) + Local Government Pension Scheme INTERVIEW DATE: (Provisional date) 31st August 2026 START DATE: As soon as possible LOCATION: Oasis Restore school in Rochester, Medway, Kent. 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 taking responsibility for ensuring the safe functioning of the school, and the care and development of our children and the staff who work with them? Could you bring energy, authority and compassion to the care of the children at the school? We are offering a uniquely exciting opportunity for a person with experience of children’s residential care, social work or youth justice who is ready for a post in the team responsible for managing the care of the children and staff teams within Oasis Restore, the first secure school in England. 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. Our team of Deputy House Managers, working under the House Managers and wider Residential Leadership Team, will be dynamic, resilient, caring and skilled, able to organise, motivate and provide emotional containment to a large group of residential staff and to facilitate and participate fully in the life of the school, modelling excellent practice. The school can accommodate up to 49 boys and girls across 12 student-style flats, and offers an intensively aspirational and therapeutic environment for children remanded or sentenced within the criminal justice system. It is dual registered as a 16-19 Academy and Secure Children’s Home. The Deputy House Managers, working under a robust multi-disciplinary leadership team, provide the backbone of the residential care system around t