Support Manager
£14.50 per hour base pay
Manchester
Full Time, Permanent
The support manager will provide vision, strategy and support our passion to support young people to support themselves.
You will play a key role in developing the skills of our staff by actively supporting teams to develop their skills alongside their continuous professional development.
Our client has two roles available
- £14.50 per hour, completing shifts (this will include an average of 10 sleep shifts per month with rate of £72.08 per sleep)
- 40 hours per week with no sleep shifts which may included earlies and weekends
Requirements:
- Have a good underpinning knowledge of safeguarding
- Have experience working within a regulated setting such as Ofsted
- You must have worked with children and young people for minimum of 2 years.
- Must have the level 3 or 4 QCF/NVQ working with children and young people in residential or equivalent occupational competency
- Flexibility is key as we operate 24/7, 7days a week, 365 days a year.
- Have a proven track record of meeting deadlines.
- Be able to demonstrate good problem-solving skills, using initiative and be able to adapt and work under pressure.
- Able to demonstrate good managerial and delegation skills in order to empower and motivate colleagues.
- Have a proven track record of being able to meet positive outcomes for children and young people
- Have experience of completing supervisions and managing a staff team
- Have experience in completing fact finding investigation meetings in line with the disciplinary procedures
Benefits:
- Intensive 2 weeks/ 80 hours induction and full training
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Pension Scheme
- Employee Assist Programme
- DBS costs refunded
- Employee of the Month Reward
- Annual Attributes Awards
- Company Events
The Role
As a Support Manager your key tasks will be:
- Working with the Registered Service Manager and Senior Management to ensure a professional and flexible service is provided.
- To act as a role model for staff, so that they are encouraged to understand the young people you are supporting.
- To participate, create and implement individual support plans and activities within a challenging environment.
- To lead and develop the team working towards strategic aims in line with organisational objectives.
- To manage and design rotas for your team and ensuring all shifts.
- To be committed to delivering person centred outcomes for the young people we support, ensuring that the young people are at the centre of their support and enable them to develop independent living skills and receive a good quality of life.
- To ensure that regulatory standards set out by Ofsted are met and these are of excellent quality.
- To creatively identify and support young people with activities and / or voluntary options that may be beneficial and stimulating to their development and future.
About Us
Provides support for young people in their transition to independent living, their ethos empowers supporting young people to support themselves.
They have a commitment to enable and empower young people with complex social, emotional and behavioural needs to promote positive outcomes for adult life.
They offer individual person-centred support on their journey towards adulthood, they believe that young people have a better chance of success when they have skills and resources to navigate their next steps toward to independence.
Our client can accommodate young people who are predominately aged 16 to 18 and post 18, who are Looked After children, including, unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking children. Additionally young people at risk of homelessness or who are homeless, young people on remand and in the Youth Justice system, also Care Leavers.
Apply today
Apply today with an up to date CV to be considered for our Support Manager positions.