Community Wellbeing Manager

Home Group Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care organization in Reading is seeking a Community Wellbeing Manager to oversee service delivery and support. This role involves team leadership, budget management, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. Ideal candidates will have experience in care services and be passionate about promoting independence and quality care. Benefits include flexible working, comprehensive leave, and a health cash plan.

Benefits

34 days leave, rising to 39

2 paid volunteering days

Health cash plan covering various medical expenses

Matching pension contribution up to 7%

Instant pay access

Qualifications

• Experience managing care services and large contracts.
• Strong people management skills and ability to foster team collaboration.
• Excellent working knowledge of Housing and Care and Support sectors.

Responsibilities

• Manage the service at Huntley Place effectively.
• Lead a team to deliver high-quality customer-centered services.
• Monitor service performance against budget targets.

Skills

Management of care services

People management

Budget management

Knowledge of care and support sectors

Ability to respond to risks

Job description

Community Wellbeing Manager

Salary circa £36,500 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!

Permanent, Full time (37.5 hpw)

Reading, Berkshire

We can’t offer a CoS for this role

Home, a place where you belong

We support older people with varying care needs to live independently in their own home with peace of mind in a recently opened, stunning extra care community in Green Park Village, Reading. We offer high quality living in our 129 beautifully designed apartments with a variety of on-site facilities including onsite care delivered by an independent care provider, 24-hour concierge, restaurant and communal areas.

What you’ll do

• You’ll have overall responsibility for managing our brilliant service at Huntley Place.
• While leading a team of housing colleagues you will work alongside our separately commissioned care provider to deliver efficient, high quality, cost effective and customer centred services in our mixed tenure scheme.
• You’ll be front of house for our customers empowering them to live well in our Huntley community and making it a great place to work for our colleagues.
• As the manager you’ll ensure the high performance and quality assurance of our services using your experience and strong skills in effectively motivating and directing colleagues and liaising with other departments within the organisation.
• You’ll monitor service performance against budget targets and safety regulations and ensure that the service is visible and accessible to referring agencies and self-referring customers too.

Why join us

While you’ll be part of the Huntley team, you’ll also join the wider South Management Team and will work with our brilliant senior operations manager Morven Lamont. We put people first. That means a supportive manager, genuine career development and benefits that make life easier inside and outside of work. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!

You have

• Experience managing a care service and large contracts, associated KPIs, budgets and ability to drive the consistent delivery of high-quality services to meet the needs of our customers and commissioners.
• People management and motivation skills, bringing colleagues together to share information and best practice. You’ll maintain strong professional relationships with your peers and their teams as well as external stakeholders.
• You’ll show your passion for promoting independence and social inclusion, as well as your focus on quality, efficiency and your ability to develop service provision in new and innovative ways.
• We need you to have an excellent working knowledge of the Housing and Care and Support sectors, safeguarding processes and housing law.
• You’ll be able to respond quickly and appropriately to emerging risks to individuals, teams or the contract.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• Flexible working hours
• You’ll be able to use technology for various tasks.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a “me day”). The option to buy 5 more each year
• 2 paid volunteering days each year
• Health cash plan saving you (and your children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more
• Matching pension contribution (up to 7% and life insurance of 3x basic salary)
• Instant pay access with Stream

Find out more

Click APPLY NOW to see our Community Wellbeing Manager Job Description, find out about us, for help to apply and our benefits. Roles can close early, so don’t wait.

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