Assistant Service Manager

Are you ready to take a step up in your residential childcare career?

Can you lead a team to success?

Then now is the time to take on an Assistant Service Manager role!

Randstad are looking for an experienced residential child care professional in Perthshire to step up and take on an Assistant Service Manager position. The service will consider a range of backgrounds, however this position is ideal for someone who has been working as a team leader or senior and looking to progress.

You will support the Service manager to provide a warm and nurturing environment for children with childhood trauma and behavioural difficulties. You will act as a positive role model for the children and staff.

The salary ranges from £(phone number removed) plus sleepover allowances, DOE

What can Randstad offer an Assistant Service Manager?

- Competitive rates and generous annual leave entitlements

- Great service with therapy animals on site

- Saturday night takeaways in the service

- Close knit team with flexible rotas

- Excellent career progressions; the service is keen to promote from within

- Opportunity for overtime in other services

- Unlimited friend referral bonuses

- Immediate start

- Extensive training in industry standard courses supported by online learning

- Help with SSSC registration

- Employee discount app

- Support from within the team and a dedicated Randstad consultant

A successful Assistant Service Manager will be responsible for:

- Working effectively as part of a team of residential childcare practitioners

- Providing 24 hours care to a vulnerable young people

- supporting 4 service users in rural cottage

- Taking service users out into the community and to school each day

- Ensuring professional boundaries are in place

- Maintaining professional manner and working to National Care Standards

- Working to a flexible schedule, including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays and Christmas period

To be successful in your Assistant Service Manager application, you will:

- Have previous experience working in a residential setting with young people

- Have flexibility in the roles undertaken

- Have strong communication skills

- Register under the PVG scheme

- Full driving licence

- Obtained, or working towards SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care, or equivalent desirable

If this sounds like the position for you, don't delay!

Apply now and one of our team may call you for an informal chat to take your application to the next stage. Alternatively, if you would like some more information give Rebecca Prentice a call on (phone number removed) for a confidential

Not the role for you?

We are always looking for talented residential support workers across Scotland, email

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.