Assistant Service Manager - Torfaen

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Wales; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Torfaen seeks an Assistant Service Manager to ensure exceptional care for individuals with learning disabilities. You will collaborate with the Service Manager, manage staff, and cultivate positive relationships with all stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in social care and a Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care, along with a caring nature and the flexibility to work varied shifts. This permanent role offers a competitive salary and extensive benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Health and Wellbeing program

Company pension

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in social care setting is essential.
• Working knowledge of Care Council for Wales Code of Practice.
• Flexibility for training and meetings.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe and caring service for the people supported.
• Provide leadership and management to the team.
• Organize and model support in a person-centred way.

Skills

Experience supporting people with learning difficulties

Strong caring nature

Full driving licence

Flexibility to work shifts

Education

Level 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Come and make a real difference: we’re looking for 2x Assistant Service Manager to help make everyday remarkable for our friendly team in Torfaen.

We are dedicated to supporting those with learning disabilities to live a fulfilled and enriched life in the community, as a Assistant Service Manager, you can play a vital role in this.

Role: 2x Assistant Service Manager Location: Torfaen Hours: 37 Your shift pattern will include weekends and sleep-ins Salary: £27,417pa and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile Contract: Permanent Click here to learn more about growing your career at Cartrefi Cymru.

What you’ll be doing: In this role you’ll be working alongside the Service Manager to ensure a safe and caring service for the people we support and our colleagues.

To do this successfully, you’ll be visible in the day-to-day operation of the service supporting duties in line with the requirements of the people we support.

You’ll be working shifts on a rota basis which may include sleep ins.

In the absence of the Service Manager, you'll have responsibility for the day to day running of the service.

This will involve providing leadership and management to the team, monitoring performance, carrying out one to one’s and appraisals and holding team meetings.

You’ll enjoy building positive relationships with all stakeholders and put our vision and values into action to deliver a first-class service.

Above all else, your focus will be on achieving the highest levels of independence for the people we support, and on organising and modelling that support in an innovative, person-centred and flexible way to make everyday remarkable.

We’d love to hear from you if you have: experience supporting people with learning difficulties in a social care setting Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or actively working towards) a strong caring nature to support others to live an enriched life and fulfil their potential a working knowledge and understanding of the Care Council for Wales Code of Practice flexibility to work shifts and provide cover as required a full driving licence

• essential and happy to travel for meetings and training access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this Our Benefits Training and development opportunities 25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme Company pension Benefits and discount platform Blue Light discount card About Us Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families.

We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support.

You can find out more about this here Our Values We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported, our values include: Honesty Trust Kindness Respect Wellbeing Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.

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