Service Manager, Care at Home

Enable; Fraserburgh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Blue Light Card

SVQ funding for SSSC registration

Job summary

Enable is seeking a Service Manager to lead Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East from Fraserburgh with travel to Dundee & Aberdeenshire. You will develop teams, promote person-centred support, and ensure high standards of safeguarding and regulatory compliance.

You will foster a positive culture, build relationships with families and external partners, and drive continuous improvement across a diverse geography.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and managing Supported Living Services.
• Experience managing teams with knowledge of culture change.
• Commitment to inclusion of people with a learning disability.
• In-depth understanding of the Self Directed Support Act and its principles.
• SVQ Level 4 or the ability to work towards the relevant qualification required for SSSC registration.

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 support.
• Ensure safeguarding and regulatory compliance and maintain high standards of quality.
• Build partnerships with families, social care professionals and external partners.
• Travel between services with a flexible approach to geography.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Culture change

Inclusion advocate

Self Directed Support

Driving licence

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3

SVQ Level 4 or equivalent for SSSC

Job description

35 hours per week

Based in Fraserborough, including travel to Dundee & Aberdeenshire

About The Role

Service Manager, Care at Home

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 You

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Significant experience of leading and managing Supported Living Services.
• Experience of managing teams with knowledge of culture change.
• A commitment to the inclusion of people with a learning disability.
• An in-depth understanding of the Self Directed Support Act and its principles.
• SVQ level 4 or the ability to work towards the relevant qualification required for your SSSC registration.

SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3 is essential

• A clear understanding of the need to build and sustain partnerships with stakeholders, commissioners and other third sector providers.
• The ability to lead our business strategy at a local level whilst promoting ENABLE Scotland with an emphasis on growing our business.
• Full driving licence with access to your own vehicle for business use.

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.

Note

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

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