Assistant Manager

Gloucestershire County Council; Stroud; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee assistance programme

Tax-free childcare

Cycle to work

Staff discounts

Local Government Pension Scheme

Green Car Scheme

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council’s Adult Social Care team is recruiting an Assistant Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to lead day-to-day delivery of caring, safe and effective services at The Beeches and related day centres in Stroud.

You will line-manage the staff team, support the manager with quality assurance and audits, and participate in project work while upholding values of respect, dignity and compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Health and/or social care experience required at NVQ Level 3.
• Management experience desirable.
• Commitment to quality and dignity in care.

Responsibilities

• Line-manage staff within Day Care Services.
• Support the Day Centre Manager with quality assurance and audits.
• Participate in appropriate project work and ensure safe, caring services.

Skills

Health and social care experience

Management experience

Education

NVQ Level 3

Job description

Supporting someone to regain their confidence and independence. Making them feel important. This is why we do it. This is why we care. As part of our Adult Social Care team, amazing moments like these will be part of daily life as you support those who need us most. With an array of brilliant benefits – including an employee assistance programme, tax-free childcare, cycle to work scheme and staff discounts – you’ve got a rewarding role in every sense.

Our short video will give you an idea of what it's like to work in our Adult Social Care team: Adult Social Care Inhouse Team.

About the role:

We are seeking to recruit an Assistant Manager (on a 12-month fixed term contract; secondment opportunities will be considered) who is able to encourage a workplace culture based on respect and dignity for those in need of care and support. As an assistant manager within Gloucestershire County Council Day Care Services you will report to the Day Centre Manager and hold day-to-day responsibility for ensuring that services offered are caring, safe, effective, well-led and responsive. You will achieve this through engaging with those who access our services and through line management of the staff team. As an assistant manager you will also support the manager with quality assurance and auditing work, alongside participating in appropriate project work.

The Beeches is a Community Resource Centre for adults with learning disabilities within the Stroud District boundaries. People generally attend one to five days a week taking part in a range of social and creative activities. The Resource Centre at Cainscross is a purpose-built building where there are facilities to meet the needs of adults with severe learning disabilities as well as people with learning disabilities who wish to access the local community with support.

Our Services are continuously evolving, and as such, this role and related responsibilities may be subject to minor change.

About you:

Working at NVQ Level 3 means that health and or social care experience is required and management experience is desirable, but above all we want someone that shares in our values, which are:

• a commitment to quality and being the best we can
• treating the people we support with compassion
• showing dignity and respect to the people that they will be working with
• having trust and respect for all members of our team

Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about. See more about our Values on our website.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help yousucceed in your role.

About us:

It’s a fantastic time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as we transform our Adult Social Care services. Through our team, we’re helping people with increasingly complex needs to remain independent and have a say in how they live. To succeed, we need people who’ll go the extra mile to see others well and happy and give families peace of mind. People who know that caring is the most rewarding feeling around.

Join us, and you’ll have a great opportunity to make a real impact on people’s lives. It’s a chance to help us take our service to new heights. And we’ll say thank you with a range of excellent benefits as well as the training and support to develop your career. We genuinely care about our colleagues and support their wellbeing.

As part of the rewards package, you will receive when working with us, Gloucestershire County Council provides the following in return for your hard work:

• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• An investment into your professional development, including career pathways, mandatory training and additional topical bi-annual workshops.

• Annual leave of 25.5 days a year plus bank holidays, increasing to 30.5 days after 5 years employment
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers

• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

Additional Information:

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below: Assistant Manager Job Profile.

This Position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship for this role. Candidates will need to have the right to work in the UK that enables them to commit to at least six months’ employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.

Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement under the Immigration Act 2016 that anyone appointed to a customer-facing role must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them while balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of remote and office working.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early due to the volume of applications received. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

If you are an internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as defined by the Equality Act 2010, please declare this in an email to [e-mail], as this is not currently covered in the application due to a technical error. By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.

*A disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.