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Deputy Service Manager (Residential) Location: Edenbridge Discipline: Care and Support Job type: Permanent Salary: £28,619 per annum Expiry date: 01 Jul 2024 23:59 Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a dedicated manager, helping individuals with learning disabilities live the best life possible? As a Deputy Service Manager at Hft you'll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. Supporting the Service Manager, you will be responsible for nurturing and inspiring those coming to work for Hft to help ensure we have the best staff teams offering great support services. This role also offers great opportunities for career progression to help you develop your knowledge and skills. Hft is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. We believe in a world where anyone with a learning disability can live within their community with all the choice and support they need to live the best life possible. We are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate and align with our values. As the Deputy Service Manager you will support the CQC registered manager to oversee a residential service providing the regulated activity of "personal care" to individuals within the Edenbridge site in Kent. What's in it for you? We'll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible. We offer Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays) Wage incentives: 10% overtime allowance, 20% Bank Holiday allowance, 50% for key dates over Christmas. Training: Access to award winning training and development Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app Aviva Digicare workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support. Discounted mobile phone contracts. As an Hft employee, you'll be able to take advantage of Vodafone's Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off. Care Friends: Employee referral app earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft. Free life assurance 3 x your annual salary Family friendly policies term time only contracts, part time, annualised and compressed hours. Generous return to work bonus following maternity leave and more... About the role Alongside the Service Manager, you are responsible and accountable for monitoring, maintaining and providing the highest standards of clinical and personal support and service delivery, while promoting independence and choice to the people supported in the service. You will support the Service Manager to manage and ensure the delivery of the service's key quality and safety priorities by holding delegated responsibility in key areas of the day-to-day running of the residential activity/service. You will also have delegated responsibility for the direct supervision and line management of a team of support workers. As a senior member of the team, you will promote and lead good practice at all times, doing all you can to make sure that the people we support and their colleagues come to no harm and that the people we support are satisfied with the level of support they receive by acting as an exemplary role model. As a Deputy Service Manager, flexibility is important for both you and for the service. You will be required to do on-call shifts during out of office hours. You will be expected to work 20% of your total weekly hours on shift across your assigned services and will be able to role model all aspects of a support worker role duties and responsibilities. Following your time on shift, and in general practice at all other times, you will have responsibility for reporting back to the Service Manager and for maintaining a continual dialogue loop of feedback that focuses on quality, and continuous improvement and learning and ensuring the smooth operation of the allocated group of services. A full UK driving licence, with access to your own vehicle, is essential for the role. About you You will have significant, recent experience at a front-line management level in field of learning disabilities in regulated services which may have included being a Registered Manager You will have knowledge of legislation and guidance relating to adults with learning disabilities, CQC regulations and Health and Safety issues. You need good IT skills and experience of maintaining records to be a success in this role. ??????? You need to hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care or hold a level 3 diploma and be willing to undertake this level 5 apprenticeship qualification within an agreed reasonable timescale of 18 months as part of a development plan You will have the ability to lead and manage people and be a role model in all aspects of people leadership especially performance If you have the passion for delivering high quality care and support services to people with learning disabilities and you want to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life then this is the role for you. ??????? STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE ??????????????We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications. Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment. Apply Now REF-214649
Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a full-time Assistant Service Manager based in a Residential home in West Malling. The salary for this permanent Assistant Service Manager role is £27,154. Main Duties: In this role, you will work closely with the Service Manager to inspire and motivate the team to provide a high quality service as well assist in implementing current legislation and CQC requirements. Acting as a role model in the delivery of active support, you will promote and maintain person-centered approaches and inclusive community links Within Meadowview there is currently 7 adults with learning disabilities, autism and behaviours that challenge. Individuals need support to enable them to participate in activities around the home and within the community such as swimming, bowling, visiting parks, home visits and weekly shops Key Responsibilities: Work closely with the Service Manager to inspire and motivate the team to provide a high-quality service as well assist in implementing current legislation and CQC requirements Maintain a practical knowledge of policies and procedures and ensure appropriate usage Effectively recruit, develop and manage employees in a fair and consistent manner Work with your Service Manager to reinforce a culture of continuous improvement You will motivate and inspire your team to provide outstanding support through effective training, coaching and leadership by example Be expected to attend appointments with the people we support, attend care reviews, review and update care plans and risk assessments, record and monitor daily logs, lead shifts and administer medication Day to day support for the people we are supporting Managing the service and the team within and meeting KPI's Must Haves: Have experience of supporting people with Experience of working with people with learning disabilities Have experience of working within Social Care To be able to support people with their personal care Be willing to lead by example and lead the team effectively Good IT skills to use various systems and applications Able to manage own time and workload Be flexible to work across the different shift patterns on a 7-day rota To be able to be part of an on-call rota Benefits you Can expect: Paid enhanced DBS. Early Pay access. E-learning/classroom training/diplomas. Blue Light Card and TheBene£its website access. Recommend a friend - earn up to £500. Paid annual leave. Flexible working. Support with your wellbeing! T&Cs apply Contact: This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.