Deputy Manager - Adult Residential

Swanton Care and Community; Murton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A residential care organization is seeking a Deputy Manager to support the service manager and lead a team. Responsibilities include fostering a positive culture, managing staff training, and ensuring person-centred support delivery. Ideal candidates will have experience in residential settings and hold or be working towards an NVQ level 5 in Health and Social Care. This role is essential in maintaining high service quality and supporting team development. Various employee benefits and a commitment to ongoing training are offered.

Benefits

Refer a friend scheme

Long service awards

Funded qualifications

Career pathways

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Qualifications

• Experience in residential care for a small residential home is desirable.
• Manage a team of at least 25 staff providing care to adults with learning disabilities.
• Proactive support for the development of Support Workers.

Responsibilities

• Support service manager to set the service culture.
• Ensure safe, effective, and person-centred support is delivered.
• Create and update person-centred support/care plans.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Person-centred Care

Data Auditing

Flexibility

Education

NVQ level 5 in Health and Social Care

Job description

About The Role

The Deputy Manager will be responsible for supporting the service manager to set the culture of the service. Leading and inspiring the teams to ensure that everyone within it lives and breathes our company ethos.

Job title:Deputy Manager

Location:Murton, Sunderland

Hours:40 hours per week

WE DO NOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP

You will be responsible for supporting your service manager to set the culture of your service. Leading and inspiring the teams to ensure that everyone within it lives and breathes our philosophy.

Here at Swanton, we are looking for people who share our core values and are able to apply these to the work that they do. At the heart of our ethos are five key words, these underpin the PRIDE we take in our services.

‘Potential, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity, Empathy’

The role involves providing practical assistance and emotional support to empower the team, to enable them to help the people we support to achieve their goals and aspirations.

• Experience of residential care for a small residential (7 bed) would be desirable.
• Experience of managing a team of at least 25 staff to provide person-centred care to adults with a learning disabilities.
• Experience of inter-department working and acceptance that no two days may be the same. This is a fast pace environment, with the aim of enhancing the experience and lives of the people we support.
• You must have or be working towards an NVQ level 5 in Health and Social Care, you must also be flexible.
• Experience of conditions such as PICA.
• Experience with auditing and leading from the front, also take the lead to help Support Workers understand their responsibilities and by doing so ensure that safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led support and care is delivered at all times.
• You will be proactive and support the development and skills of Support Workers. This will include recruitment, induction, supervisions, annual appraisals, training, coaching, rota management, sickness and absence management.
• You will ensure that all the people we support have person-centred support/care plans. You will be able to create and update these plans as per any changes that are required.
• You will oversee and support the development of excellent quality within the service. You will design, develop and maintain excellent service user records. Working in a supportive manner that empowers the service user to live their life in their chosen manner.

What we can offer:

Refer a friend scheme we know that you will know fantastic people who will be make a great contribution, you will receive £400 each time a successful referral is made *

Above and beyond we recognise that our staff teams do amazing things for the people we support and their teams. We award contributions for those who go the extra mile and for good inspection feedback with vouchers for high street shops and other surprises!

Long service awards we recognize your contribution to the team and celebrate long service

Employee benefits app stay connected to our community, receive discounts across everyday and luxury shops, access information about learning & development opportunities.

Cycle to work you can save money and get fit with our salary sacrifice scheme

Pension we will auto enrol you into our salary sacrifice pension scheme

Life cover you will be entitled to the death in service benefit.

Funded qualifications earn whilst you learn! we aim to develop our own talent, giving you the opportunity to develop your career with Swanton *

Career pathways we invest in our people and offer apprenticeships in Health and Social Care (Level 3). Earn whilst you learn has never been easier!

Swanton Educates we have our own training qualification centre which can further support your development

Trained mental health first aiders available to support you when you need someone to talk to

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support

Employee Voice we hold regular events throughout the year to listen to your feedback about working with us

*subject to eligibility & criteria

About The Service

We provide person centred support to people 24 hours a day within a community based residential home.