Deputy Manager

FreeSpirits; Beccles; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading private healthcare provider is seeking a Deputy Manager in Beccles to support daily operations in a home focused on learning disabilities. This role involves leadership, safeguarding, and ensuring high-quality care while providing significant growth opportunities within the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Deputy Home Manager required.
• Ability to engage with service users and identify their needs.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding protocols and CQC standards.

Responsibilities

• Support daily operations and lead care staff.
• Monitor residents' well-being and adjust care plans.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Care Management

Leadership

Communication

Safeguarding

CQC Standards

Job description

Deputy Manager - Specialist Service - Learning Disabilities

£30,000 - £33,000 Per year

Beccles, Norfolk

Meridian Business Support is working with an established national private healthcare provider that is looking to recruit a Deputy Manager to support the Home Manager in the day-to-day running of a home dedicated to learning disabilities based in Beccles, Norfolk.

This is a great opportunity to join one of the UK's leading private healthcare providers during a significant period of growth, with excellent progression opportunities.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Support the Care Home Manager in daily operations and assume delegated duties in their absence.
2. Lead and supervise care staff, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care aligned with residents' care plans.
3. Monitor residents' well-being, adjust care plans, and manage medication.
4. Oversee staff performance, training, and development, conducting appraisals and mentoring.
5. Act as safeguarding lead in the Manager's absence, reporting concerns and ensuring compliance with policies.
6. Ensure adherence to health, safety, infection control, and regulatory standards.
7. Maintain communication with residents, families, and external professionals.
8. Promote a positive work environment and encourage resident social engagement.

Skills and Attributes

1. Previous Deputy Home Manager experience.
2. The ability to engage with service users to understand their needs and provide excellent care services.
3. Ability to identify referral pathways for safeguarding adults and abuse.
4. Good working knowledge of CQC standards.
5. Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors, and staff.
6. Ability to promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing, and evaluating care plans within the home.

What You Will Gain

You will work with and be supported by an enthusiastic and caring team that puts people at the heart of the business. We believe staff happiness improves the quality of care provided to residents. You will have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop your skills, with procedures and processes in place to support you at every step.

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an employment agency for this vacancy.