Deputy Service Manager - Supported Living - West Yorkshire

HF Trust; Bradford, Leeds; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established charity is seeking a compassionate Deputy Service Manager to support adults with learning disabilities. This role involves nurturing staff, ensuring high-quality service delivery, and promoting independence for individuals in the community. With opportunities for career development and comprehensive training, this position is ideal for those passionate about making a difference. Join a supportive team committed to colleague wellbeing and professional growth, and help empower individuals to lead fulfilling lives. If you have a strong management background in regulated services, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Fully funded Level 5 Diploma training

Access to award-winning training

Flexible pay access via Wagestream

Wellbeing services through Aviva Digicare

Free life assurance

Employee referral bonuses

Discounted mobile phone contracts

Family friendly policies

24/7 counselling and support via TELUS Health

Qualifications

• Significant experience in management within learning disabilities.
• Knowledge of legislation and guidance for adults with learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support the Service Manager in delivering high-quality care.
• Monitor and maintain clinical standards and service delivery.

Skills

Front-line management experience

Knowledge of CQC regulations

IT skills

Leadership abilities

Education

Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management

Level 3 Diploma in Adult Care

Job description

Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a dedicated manager, helping individuals with learning disabilities live the best life possible?

As aDeputy Service Managerfor our Supported Living services at Hft Leeds and Bradford, you’ll be supporting adults with learning disabilities to live the best life possible. Supporting the Service Manager, you will be responsible for nurturing and inspiring those coming to work for Hft to help ensure we have the best staff teams offering great support services. This role also offers great opportunities for career progression to help you develop your knowledge and skills.

Hft is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. We believe in a world where anyone with a learning disability can live within their community with all the choice and support they need to live the best life possible. We are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate and align with our values.

What’s in it for you?

We offer a range of benefits and career development opportunities. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training and support along the way. With Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.

As a ‘Gold’ standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. Within this, all Hft employees get access to TELUS Health – the world’s biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.

We offer

• Annual Leave:33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays)
• Apprenticeships: Hft will fully fund and provide training for you to obtain your Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management within the first 12-18 months of your employment.
• Training: Access to award winning training and development
• Wagestream:Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
• Aviva Digicare + workplace:Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
• TELUS health:A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
• Discounted mobile ‘phone contracts.As an Hft employee, you’ll be able to take advantage of Vodafone’s Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
• Care Friends:Employee referral app – earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft.
• Free life assurance– 3 x your annual salary
• Family friendly policies

About the role

Alongside the Service Manager, you are responsible and accountable for monitoring, maintaining and providing the highest standards of clinical and personal support and service delivery, while promoting independence and choice to the people supported in the service. You will support the Service Manager to manage and ensure the delivery of the service’s key quality and safety priorities by holding delegated responsibility in key areas of the day-to-day running of the supported living activity/service. You will also have delegated responsibility for the direct supervision and line management of a team of support workers. As a senior member of the team, you will promote and lead good practice at all times, doing all you can to make sure that the people we support and their colleagues come to no harm and that the people we support are satisfied with the level of support they receive by acting as an exemplary role model.

As a Deputy Service Manager, flexibility is important for both you and for the service. You will be required to do on-call shifts during out of office hours. You will be expected to work 20% of your total weekly hours on shift across your assigned services and will be able to role model all aspects of a support worker role duties and responsibilities. Following your time on shift, and in general practice at all other times, you will have responsibility for reporting back to the Service Manager and for maintaining a continual dialogue loop of feedback that focuses on quality, and continuous improvement and learning and ensuring the smooth operation of the allocated group of services.

A full UK driving licence, with access to your own vehicle, is essential for the role. On call responsibilities is required so full flexibility is essential

About you

• You will have significant, recent experience at a front-line management level in field of learning disabilities in regulated services which may have included being a Registered Manager
• You will have knowledge of legislation and guidance relating to adults with learning disabilities, CQC regulations and Health and Safety issues.
• You need good IT skills and experience of maintaining records to be a success in this role.
• You need to hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care or hold a level 3 diploma and be willing to undertake this level 5 apprenticeship qualification within an agreed reasonable timescale of 18 months as part of a development plan
• You will have the ability to lead and manage people and be a role model in all aspects of people leadership especially performance
• If you feel, you do not hit all the criteria but would be a great fit for Hft, please apply.

If you have the passion for delivering high quality care and support services to people with learning disabilities and you want to make a difference to enable people to live a more fulfilling and independent life – then this is the role for you.

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

Hft's usual terms and conditions apply. Hft is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. As a Disability Confident Employer, Hft is helping to ensure that disabled people have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations that people without disabilities do. Successful applicants will need to undertake an enhanced disclosure check against the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Having a criminal record may not bar you from employment.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications