Deputy Manager

Real Life Options Group; England; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Accredited training

Training bursaries

28 days holiday incl. bank holidays

Employer contributory pension

Employee Assistance Programme

£10,000 Life cover

Refer a Friend £250 bonus

Financial wellbeing scheme

Discounted goods & services

Recognition Initiatives

Job summary

Real Life Options in Teesside is seeking a Deputy Manager to lead teams across supported living, outreach and domiciliary care services. The role focuses on delivering person‑centred support while ensuring regulatory and contractual compliance and cost‑effective service delivery.

You will oversee budgets, drive best practice, and travel between services. A full driving license, enhanced DBS, and NVQ Level 4 or willingness to undertake are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven management experience in health, social care or independent sector.
• Experience with people, financials and budget management.
• Working knowledge of legislation and standards affecting service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Registered Locality Manager for Teesside operational activity.
• Drive development and delivery of cost‑effective, innovative, person‑centred support.

Skills

People management

Budget management

Legislation knowledge

Leadership

Education

NVQ Level 4

Job description

Deputy Manager

Full time

Teesside area

Salary £31,633.41per annum dependent on experience

Real Life Options have an exciting opportunity within our Teesside area supporting Adults with Learning Difficulties, Physical Disabilities, Autism, Challenging behaviour and Mental Health needs in a variety of service provisions such as Supported Living Services, Outreach Support and Domiciliary Care Support.

This is a great opportunity for any experienced Deputy Manager, Team Leader or Senior Support Worker who is looking for a new challenge to bring their knowledge, skills and experience to enhance the life of the people we support.

We’re keen to hear from individuals who has proven management experience in health, social services or independent sector including experience of people, financials and budget management, along with a working knowledge of legislation and standards affecting the development and delivery of our services. You will provide clear leadership and motivation to individuals and teams in developing best practice in person centred support and delivery and be able to evidence a person-centred approach to the people we support to achieve their agreed outcomes.
This is a challenging but rewarding role and as such you will need to be flexible in your approach and willing to travel between services and attend organisational events which may require an overnight stay.

The role

We deliver creative, dynamic and person-centred services providing a range of individualised support to people living in shared supported living properties with individual tenancies.

You will reportto the Registered Locality Manager for operational activity within the Teesside area. To ensure regulatory and contractual compliance requirements in your allocated services are met and exceeded whilst driving the continued development and delivery of cost-effective, innovative and truly person-centred support.

A full driving license is essential for this role.

An enhanced DBS is required for this role.

NVQ Level 4 or a willingness to undertake.

Real Life Options offers flexible employment opportunities.

Benefits and Rewards

At Real Life Options we treat our people with the same respect, care and consideration that we show to the people we support. Not only do we provide competitive rates of pay, a great place to work and great job satisfaction, our additional benefits include:

• Accreditedtraining giving you the knowledge and skills to deliver a first-rate job.
• Access to training bursaries.
• Aminimum of 28-days paid holiday a year, including bank holidays (pro-rata for part time staff).
• An employer contributory pension scheme.
• A free Employee Assistance Programme (including a medical helpline, telephone and face-to-face counselling, debt, financial and legal information).
• £10,000 Life cover.
• Refer a Friend Incentive £250 Bonus (terms and conditions apply).
• A financial wellbeing scheme.
• A reward gateway with access to discounted goods and services.
• Recognition Initiatives.
• The chance to make a real difference in people’s lives

We are keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours who can help us to ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do these are:

• Respect
• Honesty
• Responsibility
• Excellence

If you can circle 6 or more of the skills below, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• Honest
• Good Communicator
• Strong Values
• Flexible
• Passionate
• Self Motivated
• Reliable
• Caring
• Inclusive

Please note that initial contact with applicants will usually be by email, so please check all of your email folders regularly, including your junk mail folders.

Real Life Options are an equal opportunities employer. We seek to recruit, train and promote the best person for the job, to make full use of the talents and resources of all our people and to craft a working environment free from unlawful discrimination, victimisation and harassment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

If you have a disability, a learning difficulty, a medical condition or individual need that you believe may affect your performance in selection, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best so please do let us know.