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ENABLE Scotland; Fraserburgh; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Blue Light Card

SVQ Health & Social Care funding

Job summary

ENABLE Scotland is seeking an experienced Service Manager to lead Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East. The role involves developing teams to deliver person-centred support that enables people to live independently within their own homes and communities.

You will create a positive culture, drive continuous improvement, and maintain high standards of quality, safeguarding and regulatory compliance. The role requires travel across diverse geographic areas.

Qualifications

• Experience as a leader in care or social services.
• Strong people management and development skills.
• Proven ability to build relationships with families, colleagues and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East.
• Create a positive culture and support teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred care.
• Ensure safeguarding, regulatory compliance and service quality across multiple sites.
• Travel between services across North East regions and build partnerships with stakeholders.

Job description

Based in Fraserborough, including travel to Dundee & Aberdeenshire

Are you an experienced, passionate and values-led leader looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people across the North East?

We are looking for an enthusiastic Service Manager to lead and develop our Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East. This is a varied and rewarding role, providing leadership and oversight across a range of services and supporting teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred support that enables people to live as independently as possible within their own homes and communities.

You’ll be responsible for creating a positive culture, developing and supporting your teams, driving continuous improvement and ensuring the people we support experience excellent outcomes. You’ll build strong relationships with the people we support, families, colleagues and external partners, while ensuring our services maintain high standards of quality, safeguarding and regulatory compliance.

The role offers the opportunity to work across a diverse geographical area, so a flexible approach to travel between services is essential.

We’re looking for someone who is approachable, organised and confident, with the leadership skills and experience to bring people together, embrace change and ensure our services continue to grow and develop.

If you’re ready to bring your leadership experience, energy and ideas to a role where you can make a genuine difference across a range of services and communities, we’d love to hear from you.

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me

Enable is a dynamic and vibrant social care organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and we are looking for a dynamic and motivated Service Manager to join us in ensuring they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

You must have the passion and drive to take a lead role in continuing to improve the quality of the services we provide to the people we support and to effectively lead and support local Team Facilitators to manage our frontline support staff.

This role is pivotal to the success of our mission and ambition to support people with a learning disability to lead the lives of their choosing; lives that are full, meaningful and inclusive. A successful Service Manager will lead their teams to develop and maintain good relationships and communications with the family and Social Care professionals involved in the lives of the people we support.

About Us

At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities. These include, but are not limited to:

• Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
• Introduction to autism
• Epilepsy awareness
• Moving and Handling
• Adult support and protection
• Child support and protection
• First Aid
• Positive Behaviour Support

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

• Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loans*
• Blue Light Card
• Where required, Enable will fully fund SVQ Health and Social Care qualifications – required for SSSC registration

Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Enable reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

Note: The successful applicant will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 3 months of their start date.