Assistant Service Manager - Epsom

Royal Mencap Society; Epsom; On-site; GBP 9,300 - 9,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts at leading retailers

Health cash plans

Interest-free loans

Paid holidays (pro-rata)

Job summary

Royal Mencap Society in Epsom is offering a 3-month secondment for an Assistant Service Manager to support the Service Manager in running a shared living service. You will also perform frontline duties, lead a team, and model best practice while focusing on person-centered care for people with learning disabilities.

The role involves coordinating with social workers, healthcare professionals and colleagues, ensuring infection control and safety, and contributing to a positive team culture.

Qualifications

• Management experience in a care setting is desirable.
• Strong communication and leadership skills are essential.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Support the Service Manager with the smooth operation of the service.
• Lead and role-model good practice for staff and carers.
• Ensure health and safety checks are completed and medication is monitored.
• Coordinate with social workers and other agencies to support people.

Skills

Management experience

Communication

Team leadership

Adaptability

Front-line care

Job description

A great opportunity has arisen for a 3-month secondment position for an Assistant Service Manager to join our person-centered services in Epsom.

This is a great opportunity to develop your skills and experience in a management role. You will be supporting the Service Manager in the continued smooth operation of the supported living service in this area by undertaking agreed management tasks. We are looking for someone with fresh ideas, energetic, passionate, trustworthy and is forward thinking.

An understanding of autism and complex behaviours is desirable for us to be able to meet the needs of the people we support at the services effectively.

In addition to undertaking managerial tasks, you would also still do some front-line work with the people we support and act as a role model, demonstrating good practice to other members of the team.

You would work 3 days off rota to support the Service Manager and 2 days on shift

You would support the Service Manager to:

• Manage the Shared Lives service through home visits, regular reviews and ongoing supervision.
• Support the team with high-quality recording of outcomes and day to day support.
• Provide guidance and support to staff and carers, helping identify training and development needs.
• Ensure H&S checks are completed
• Monitor medication supplies
• Complete monthly PWS finance checks
• Ensuring infection control guidance in place is been followed and monitored
• Quality monitoring i.e. keeping the MAT up to date
• Work closely with social workers, healthcare professionals, local authorities, families, and other agencies to coordinate support.

You will need to be able to demonstrate Mencap’s core values in all that you do. You will also need to demonstrate your professionalism, ability to work under pressure, priorities your workload and follow Mencap policies and procedures.

If you know how to lead and inspire people, enjoy developing a team working culture, have excellent communication skills and an ambition to succeed, personally contributing to the work Mencap does to support people with a learning disability we would love to hear from you!

Here at Mencap, we offer an impressive range of benefits designed to support and reward our employees to ensure that our teams feel valued and appreciated. Our benefits package offers 24 days of paid holiday (excluding bank holidays, pro rata), along with a range of perks such as discounts at leading high-street retailers, access to health cash plans, interest-free loans, and many more exciting offerings. For more details on what we have to offer, please see the attached document and below link with all the fantastic benefits available to you as a member of our team

Our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world for people with a learning disability to live happy and healthy lives. We're here to support people with a learning disability, their families and their carers . We fight for a kinder, fairer and more inclusive society for people with a learning disability to live in. At Mencap, everyone works with people with a learning disability either providing support or advice, or alongside one another as colleagues.

Belonging at Mencap is for E veryone, Every day, Everywhere .

Everyone is expected to treat people well and make Mencap an inclusive organisation.

Every day we grow and learn. It’s okay to make mistakes but we learn from them and make changes.

Everywhere people will feel respected, valued, and safe to be themselves.

We have Belonging network groups that meet online and are open to all colleagues. The groups include people who identify as Black and Asian, LGBTQIA+, disabled or with a long- term health condition, women, parents and carers, and their allies. We want to encourage everyone to apply to work at Mencap and we offer a variety of different contract types and working patterns. We’re not looking for specific experience. It is your personality and values that will make you a great colleague. We will train and develop you to succeed in the role you’re applying for.

£37,259 per annum, pro-rata + excellent benefits