Care Service Manager/ Deputy Manager

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Job description

Care Service Manager

Your new company

Are you a Service Manager or Deputy Manager looking to join a brilliant team supporting residents with learning disabilities based near Watford.

Your New role

* To ensure that care and support for your area, is of a high standard, focussed on person centred outcomes and delivered within budget, ensuring needs assessments, support plans and risk assessments are kept up to date. Liaison with social workers, family members and key workers as required.
* Ensure that incidents, complaints, accidents and near-misses are appropriately recorded.
* To ensure staffing rota's and on-call arrangements are always adequate for the service. You will also be expected to participate in a management on-call rota.
* Assist and lead parts of the assessment and admission of new people to the service ensuring they have a contract for their care and support and all necessary funding and tenancy documentation is in place prior to admission.
* To assist the Community to deliver and evidence service delivery standards in accordance with CVT, contractual and regulatory requirements.
* Involve the people who use our services in decisions regarding the delivery of service, including the staffing, and the service design.
* With the Team Leader\/s for the area, manage approximately 20 staff. To ensure that regular supervision meetings, annual reviews as well ongoing training and development is undertaken.
* To take part in recruitment & selection processes and carry out inductions for new staff
* To undertake staff management such as disciplinary hearings, performance management, sickness absence and grievances.

What you'll need to succeed

* At least three years of previous experience of working within a social care setting supporting adults with learning disabilities would be desirable
* At least one year at a supervisory level with experience of managing teams is essential
* Experience of managing multi-site services is preferred
* Experience of successful management of finances and budgets, familiar with using IT systems to enter and record data including experience in using Excel spreadsheets is essential
* NVQ level 4 equivalent or higher is desirable.
* Able to participate in an on-call rota
* Hold a Full manual driving licence with no more than 3 points
* Satisfactory enhanced (plus) adult's disclosure and two references.

What you need to do now
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