An exciting brand new job opportunity has arisen for an experienced Children’s House Manager for a home based in the Blackburn, Lancashire area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading care providers
This is a leading provider of diverse services throughout the UK, dedicated to supporting individuals with complex needs and learning disabilities. Our comprehensive offerings encompass supported living, residential emergency accommodation, and specialized step-down services for mental health care
**To be considered for this position you must hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management – Children's Residential (or be willing to work towards) and a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare**
As the Children’s House Manager your key responsibilities include:
Be a safeguarding expert, wielding your thorough understanding of risk assessment, regulations (CHR2015, Ofsted, Working Together), and legislation to empower informed decision-making and achieve exceptional outcomes for young people
Work with the Registered Manager, ensuring our home thrives under Ofsted's standards
Forge strong relationships with Social Services, NHS, Police, and Education
Deputise for the Registered Manager effectively, managing the home and leading the team in their absence
Lead staff with your inspirational approach, nurturing future leaders within your team
Monitor standards, meet objectives, and implement cutting-edge systems that reflect outstanding practice
The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
At least 2 years of supervisory experience working with children, demonstrating knowledge of Ofsted expectations
Thorough knowledge of key childcare legislation, Quality Standards, and Safeguarding principles
Calm and composed in demanding situations, demonstrating understanding of attachment and trauma in young people
Due to the complexities of the role, you will be 25 years of age and more
Driver’s license is essential
The successful Children’s House Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £65,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week. In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
Generous Holiday Entitlement
Pension Scheme
Paid Induction Programme
Free Enhanced DBS
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Recognition Awards
Fully Funded Care Certificate
Refer a Friend Bonus
Reference ID: 7264
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV....Read more...
An exciting brand new job opportunity has arisen for an experienced Children’s House Manager for a home based in the Blackburn, Lancashire area. You will be working for one of UK’s leading care providers
This is a leading provider of diverse services throughout the UK, dedicated to supporting individuals with complex needs and learning disabilities. Our comprehensive offerings encompass supported living, residential emergency accommodation, and specialized step-down services for mental health care
**To be considered for this position you must hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management – Children's Residential (or be willing to work towards) and a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare**
As the Children’s House Manager your key responsibilities include:
Be a safeguarding expert, wielding your thorough understanding of risk assessment, regulations (CHR2015, Ofsted, Working Together), and legislation to empower informed decision-making and achieve exceptional outcomes for young people
Work with the Registered Manager, ensuring our home thrives under Ofsted's standards
Forge strong relationships with Social Services, NHS, Police, and Education
Deputise for the Registered Manager effectively, managing the home and leading the team in their absence
Lead staff with your inspirational approach, nurturing future leaders within your team
Monitor standards, meet objectives, and implement cutting-edge systems that reflect outstanding practice
The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
At least 2 years of supervisory experience working with children, demonstrating knowledge of Ofsted expectations
Thorough knowledge of key childcare legislation, Quality Standards, and Safeguarding principles
Calm and composed in demanding situations, demonstrating understanding of attachment and trauma in young people
Due to the complexities of the role, you will be 25 years of age and more
Driver’s license is essential
The successful Children’s House Manager will receive an excellent salary up to £65,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role for 40 hours a week. In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
Generous Holiday Entitlement
Pension Scheme
Paid Induction Programme
Free Enhanced DBS
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Recognition Awards
Fully Funded Care Certificate
Refer a Friend Bonus
Reference ID: 7264
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV ....Read more...
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an experienced Responsible Individual – Children’s Care Homes to provide strategic oversight, governance, and leadership across our residential services in Preston
This is one of UK’s leading care service which delivers outstanding care and life-changing outcomes for children, young people and adults
As the Responsible Individual your key responsibilities include:
Provide Responsible Individual oversight for four Ofsted-regulated children's homes
Ensure compliance with the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards
Maintain positive and professional relationships with Ofsted, local authorities, and external stakeholders
Monitor service quality through audits, quality assurance visits, and performance reviews
Support, mentor, and challenge Registered Managers to achieve high standards of care and regulatory compliance
Lead on safeguarding oversight, risk management, and service improvement plans
Analyse performance data and implement strategies to improve outcomes for children and young people
Ensure robust governance arrangements are in place across all services
Support the growth and development of existing and future residential services
Promote a culture where children and young people's voices are central to decision-making
The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
Significant senior leadership experience within Ofsted-regulated children's residential care
Strong working knowledge of children's home regulations, quality standards, and safeguarding legislation
Experience of managing multiple services and driving continuous improvement
Proven track record of supporting homes to achieve Good or Outstanding Ofsted outcomes
Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between services
Experience as a Responsible Individual
Experience supporting the registration and mobilisation of new children's homes
**To be considered for this position you must hold Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare**
The successful Responsible Individual will receive an excellent salary up to £70,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role working 40 hours a week. In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
Medicash policy
33 days annual leave inc bank holidays
Ongoing professional development and training
Supportive senior leadership team with ambitious growth plans + much more!!!
Reference ID: 7438
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV....Read more...
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for an experienced Responsible Individual – Children’s Care Homes to provide strategic oversight, governance, and leadership across our residential services in Preston
This is one of UK’s leading care service which delivers outstanding care and life-changing outcomes for children, young people and adults
As the Responsible Individual your key responsibilities include:
Provide Responsible Individual oversight for four Ofsted-regulated children's homes
Ensure compliance with the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards
Maintain positive and professional relationships with Ofsted, local authorities, and external stakeholders
Monitor service quality through audits, quality assurance visits, and performance reviews
Support, mentor, and challenge Registered Managers to achieve high standards of care and regulatory compliance
Lead on safeguarding oversight, risk management, and service improvement plans
Analyse performance data and implement strategies to improve outcomes for children and young people
Ensure robust governance arrangements are in place across all services
Support the growth and development of existing and future residential services
Promote a culture where children and young people's voices are central to decision-making
The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:
Significant senior leadership experience within Ofsted-regulated children's residential care
Strong working knowledge of children's home regulations, quality standards, and safeguarding legislation
Experience of managing multiple services and driving continuous improvement
Proven track record of supporting homes to achieve Good or Outstanding Ofsted outcomes
Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel between services
Experience as a Responsible Individual
Experience supporting the registration and mobilisation of new children's homes
**To be considered for this position you must hold Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare**
The successful Responsible Individual will receive an excellent salary up to £70,000 per annum. This exciting position is a permanent full time role working 40 hours a week. In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:
Medicash policy
33 days annual leave inc bank holidays
Ongoing professional development and training
Supportive senior leadership team with ambitious growth plans + much more!!!
Reference ID: 7438
To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on 0121 638 0567 or send your CV ....Read more...
Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer- 1 or 2 days a week expected at Head Office in Blackburn - Salary: £60k-£65kSummary of Position The Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer will be responsible for the administration, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the TW Group infrastructure estate across both Linux and Microsoft environments. This is a hands-on senior role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who is comfortable taking ownership of technical problems, investigating unfamiliar systems and delivering practical solutions with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will work closely with the Software Development Team, IT Operations and selected third-party technology partners to support business-critical infrastructure, development environments, databases, container platforms and deployment pipelines. The role will be expected to take ownership of day-to-day infrastructure operations while also improving automation, monitoring, resilience, documentation and disaster recovery capability across the wider IT estate.Key Responsibilities - Administration, maintenance and improvement of Linux and Microsoft server environments. - Provisioning and configuration of new virtual machines, servers, services and supporting infrastructure. - Deployment and configuration of applications and infrastructure components. - Monitoring the health, performance, availability and security of production and internal systems. - Investigating and resolving infrastructure incidents, performance issues and system failures. - Designing and implementing appropriate monitoring, alerting and logging for new and existing systems. - Managing and improving configuration automation using Ansible. - Supporting and administering containerised environments using Docker, CRI-O and Kubernetes. - Managing Kubernetes clusters, workloads, services and associated infrastructure. - Administration and operational support of MySQL, Galera Cluster and Microsoft SQL Server environments. - 1 Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines. - Supporting software deployment and release processes in collaboration with the Development Team. - Maintaining system patching, upgrades, security configuration and vulnerability remediation. - Managing backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes. - Improving infrastructure resilience and reducing key-person dependencies through documentation and cross-training. - Reviewing existing infrastructure and recommending improvements where systems can be made more reliable, secure, maintainable or efficient. - Supporting infrastructure-related security incidents and remediation activities. - Maintaining clear technical documentation covering systems, infrastructure, recovery procedures and operational processes. - Working with third-party infrastructure and technology partners where specialist support is required. - Supporting the broader IT function where infrastructure, systems or operational responsibilities overlap.Experience - 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar role. - Significant hands-on experience operating production-grade infrastructure. - Strong Linux administration experience. - Practical experience across both Linux and Microsoft server estates. - Proven experience managing infrastructure supporting business-critical applications. - Experience taking ownership of complex technical problems with limited supervision. - Proven ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and determine appropriate solutions. - Experience improving infrastructure reliability, automation, security or operational efficiency. - Previous experience operating in a senior or highly autonomous engineering roleSkills and Experience - Core Linux & Systems Administration- Strong professional experience administering Linux server environments in production. - Strong understanding of Linux system administration, including: users and permissions system services package management networking storage and filesystems scheduled tasks logging performance management troubleshooting. - Experience provisioning and configuring servers and virtual machines from initial deployment through to production readiness. - Strong understanding of production infrastructure reliability, availability and operational support. - Experience with system patching, upgrades and lifecycle management. - Experience diagnosing complex infrastructure issues independently.Monitoring, Reliability & Security - Strong experience with system, application and security monitoring. - Experience designing and implementing monitoring and alerting for new infrastructure and applications. - Ability to identify meaningful service health indicators and create appropriate alerts. - Strong understanding of: infrastructure security access control patch management vulnerability remediation system hardening logging auditing certificate management - Experience responding to production incidents and security-related infrastructure issues. - Strong understanding of backup, recovery and disaster recovery principles. - Experience documenting and testing disaster recovery procedures.Automation & Configuration Management- Strong working knowledge of Ansible. Experience using automation to manage: server configuration 3. - Application deployment package installation security configuration environment setup recurring operational tasks - Ability to design reusable, maintainable and well-documented automation. - Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and configuration management principles. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts.Containers & Kubernetes- Strong experience with Docker and containerised workloads. - Experience with CRI-O, containerd or comparable container runtimes. - Practical experience administering Kubernetes clusters in production or business-critical environments. - Strong understanding of: deployments pods services ingress persistent storage secrets configuration resource allocation cluster networking availability monitoring troubleshooting - Ability to independently deploy, troubleshoot and maintain applications within Kubernetes. - Experience supporting highly available containerised environmentsDatabase Administration MySQL / Galera- Strong experience administering MySQL environments. - Experience managing Galera Cluster or comparable highly available MySQL architectures. - Good understanding of: replication backup and restore performance - monitoring database troubleshooting permissions and access upgrades clustering high availability failover disaster recovery - Ability to investigate and resolve database performance and availability issuesMicrosoft SQL Server- Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server / MSSQL environments. - Good understanding of: database backup and recovery - permissions maintenance - monitoring performance - troubleshooting availability resilienceMicrosoft Systems Administration- Strong experience administering Microsoft Windows Server environments. - Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Windows-based servers and applications. - Experience with system monitoring, patching, security and operational support. - Strong understanding of Windows Server permissions, services and network configuration.- Ability to troubleshoot Windows infrastructure and application issues independently. - Experience supporting business-critical Microsoft workloads.CI/CD & Development Operations - Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines. - Experience designing, maintaining and troubleshooting automated deployment pipelines. - Understanding of build, test and production deployment processes. - Strong working knowledge of Git and modern source control workflows. - Experience supporting software developers with infrastructure and deployment requirements. - Ability to improve deployment reliability through automation and standardisation. - Experience supporting multiple development, staging and production environmentsInfrastructure & Networking- Strong understanding of: TCP/IP DNS HTTP / HTTPS firewalls VPNs load balancing reverse proxies TLS / SSL certificates - Experience administering web servers such as Nginx and Apache. - Understanding of highly available, multi-server environments. - Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure issues across operating system, networking, database and application layers. - Experience working alongside external infrastructure or managed service providersWorking Style & Soft Skills - Strong problem-solving and diagnostic capability. - Comfortable being given an outcome or problem rather than a predefined technical solution. - Able to independently investigate, evaluate options and implement appropriate solutions. - Strong ownership mentality and willingness to take responsibility for systems through their full lifecycle. - Proactive approach to identifying operational risks before they become incidents. - Calm and methodical approach to production incidents and high-pressure situations. - Strong attention to detail. Good communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to explain infrastructure risks and recommendations in practical business terms.Nice-to-Have- Previous experience supporting SAP environments. - Experience working with infrastructure hosting or supporting SAP application and database workloads. - Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling. - Experience with cloud infrastructure. Experience with centralised logging and observability platforms. - Experience with vulnerability management and security tooling. - Experience administering Redis or similar caching technologies. - Experience with highly available ecommerce or customer-facing infrastructure. - Experience supporting infrastructure across multiple physical locations or datacentres. - Experience working in organisations subject to formal audit, governance or listed-company control requirements. - Familiarity with broader Microsoft infrastructure and enterprise systemsIs this role for you?? Click apply!....Read more...
Mechanical Maintenance Engineer - £36,000 - £38,000 - Blackburn (Static) CBW Staffing Solutions is currently recruiting for a Mechanical Engineer for a static site in Blackburn, carrying out planned and reactive commercial building maintenance. This role will be working on a large commercial site. The successful candidate should have experience of a Mechanical Engineer positions in FM and have a strong understanding of servicing, repairing, and installing heating systems and plumbing works on commercial buildings. This position would be ideal for a Mechanical Engineer currently in a similar position who is keen on progression. In return, the company is offering a competitive salary in the region of up to £36,000 - £38,000 with opportunity to earn more with on call and overtime. Key duties & ResponsibilitiesCarry out Mechanical works in a commercial setting, including general plumbing, boilers, heating systems, domestic hot and cold-water systems etc.Ensure all PPM is carried out in accordance with the maintenance specification and documented in real time using the PDA with appropriate comments to evidence completion of workEnsure that all relevant paperwork is completed regarding PPM, reactive and breakdown works and that it is passed without delay to the contract administratorEnsure that Method Statements and Risk Assessments are prepared and used for all tasks undertaken to ensure safe working practices at all timesTake part in the on call rotaHours of workMonday to Friday08:00 - 16:30Call out (1 in 6) Package DetailsSalary of £36,000 - £38,000Overtime Opportunities - 1.5x & 2x at weekends 24 days holiday + Bank holiday (25 after 2 years)Life Cover equivalent to 1.5 times annual salaryEmployee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailersGym membership discounts Cycle to work scheme Holiday purchase scheme2 corporate social responsibility days per yearBroad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmesAttractive Employee Referral Rewards SchemeAccess to our growing employee networks24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing appRequirementsA recognised industry qualification will be required, and previous experience is essentialLevel 3 in Mechanical discipline If you are interested, please get in contact with Tom Meachin of CBW Staffing Solutions for more information.....Read more...
