Assistant Enablement Manager - Sherborne, Dorset

PBS4; Sherborne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days annual leave pro rata

DBS paid by employer

Company pension

Refer a friend £300 bonus

Job summary

PBS4 is seeking an Assistant Enablement Manager in Dorset on a permanent basis. The role includes coaching and mentoring Enablement Practitioners, supporting across all shift patterns, and ensuring quality assurance with a focus on person-centred planning.

You will work with the team to enable meaningful daily life improvements for the people we support, including collaboration with families and external agencies. Driving licence is required.

Qualifications

• Experience in coaching and mentoring teams.
• Willingness to work across shift patterns including days, nights, weekends, and on-call.
• Full UK driving licence is required.
• Ability to support individuals with autism and learning disabilities with person-centred planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide coaching and mentoring to Enablement Practitioners.
• Support across shift patterns, including days, nights, evenings, weekends and on-call.
• Upskill teams, conduct supervisions, probations and appraisals, and welfare checks.
• Deliver training and review paperwork; support transitions and implement support plans.

Skills

Coaching

Mentoring

Team leadership

On-call availability

Communication

Job description

Assistant Enablement Manager

Location: Sherborne, Dorset

Hours per week: 42 hours per week - (6 hours of admin per week & 36 on shift)

Salary: £18.09 per hour

Employment Type: Permanent

Full UK driving licence required

Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Assistant Enablement Manager to join our team In Dorset.

The Assistant Enablement Manager will:

Work on rota directly supporting the people we support as well as provide coaching and mentoring to our teams of Enablement Practitioners. This will include working across all shift patterns including days, nights, evenings, weekends and being on-call. Work off rota ensuring our quality assurance processes are met, and upskilling the teams, completing supervisions, probations and appraisals, debriefs and welfare checks, delivering training, reviewing paperwork, supporting with transitions, providing a buddy system to other management teams, and generally supporting the Manager to effectively manage the teams in that geographical area. This split of time is flexible and will be dependent on the needs of the people we support.

You’ll act as a role model and mentor to the team and facilitate the use of collaborative working and creative solutions to enable both them and the people we support to achieve individual goals and develop. Working in partnership with the people we support, their family, our specialist support teams and external agencies you’ll champion interactions, person‑centred planning and implement support plans that improve the quality of everyday life for those we support.

The person you will be supporting, is a 33‑year‑old male with a diagnosis of Autism, a Mild learning Disability, Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder Adam lives in his own home in Sherborne, and he is supported on a 2 to 1 support ratio.

He is very independent with his personal care and support may only be required at a prompting level, to remind him to dress weather appropriate or according to the occasion.

Adam requires full support with medication and encouraged and supported to complete daily household tasks in a fun and positive way.

He really enjoys listening to music and playing the drums.

Adam Loves to go swimming and spend time walking with his friends and family.

He has a real interest in Ships, visiting the museums and going to theme parks with his team, and is looking for team members who are engaging and enjoy the same interest and activities.

Adam is looking for outgoing, positive, passionate team members that can support him to maintain meaningful relationships with his friends and family, whilst maintaining clear boundaries.

Why work for us?

• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued
• Have support from an experienced management and clinical team
• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support
• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1‑year anniversary with PBS4., in‑house paid induction training, followed by 12 weeks blended e‑learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide. We are a medium‑sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 450 employees. The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

Be the change!

People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed, then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.

We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!